jaclaz

There have never been AFAICR SCSI2SCSI "converters" (or at least they must have been peculiarly "rare"), I have only seen "passive" adapters (pinout converters) or "full fledged" ISA, MCA (SIC!) or PCI SCSI cards. Additionally (and I do have my experience with mixing SCSI things ) I don't recall any similar issue , as far as I know you can "mix together" all kind of SCSI devices, of course performance may depend on the "slower" device.... It would be interesting if you could provide some data .... jaclaz

Start with providing more info on your hardware. Be aware that it will be tricky , see here for an UNfinalized similar thread: jaclaz

@ChR Asking for help on a WAREZ release is a good recipe to get banned in no time. See Rules of this board: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=forums&module=extras&section=boardrules JFYI nliting a non-original source is a perfect recipe for disaster (as most WAREZ would have been already modified - possibly through the use of the same nlite) I am not banning you (for the moment) but this thread is going to an end right now. jaclaz

... but to connect a CD/DVD drive I don't think that an ATA33 speed is a real bottleneck..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#Transfer_rates http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-ROM#Technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA#Speed_of_defined_transfer_modes jaclaz

I have been driving a pickup with a 4 (four) cylinder engine where only 3 (three) actually got ignition, eventually the engine jammed, what gives? OF COURSE a clicking HDD is trying in the best way it can to tell you that it is gonna die soon, with the exception of a few models that produced a noisy click when parking heads on the ramp.(nowadays very few disks use a parking ramp). Of course it depends on a case by case basis, I have really OLD disks that were clicking because they had developed some bad sectors areas, by simply re-partitioning them in such a way to avoid the bad areas they stopped clicking and lasted several years, but the clicking (with the exception mentioned) is a sort of warning that should make you aware that there are *some* issues (and of course you are perfectly free to ignore this alarm bell) Well, there is nothing as deceiving as SMART status, more or less it means "nothing". Strangely enough, we have an actual good report from Google (now severely dated): http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf That amounts (summed up) to: if SMART status says that a disk is going bad, it is going bad if SMART status says that a disk is good, it may be actually good or fail tomorrow (you can flip a coin and have the same level of accuracy) Please also note that any "new generation" of hard disks may behave in several ways differently from a previous one. jaclaz

Yep Also commented starting here: jaclaz

Yep ,the "biggest chunk" of changes was introduced with XP, and this is IMHO the reason why Ken Kato's VDK worked perfectly with 2K and sometimes could not be stopped/uninstalled/reinstalled/restarted in XP (and this could suggest that the VSS subsystem actually introduces some added "locking" at least with disk objects). Back to topic, never heard of a "disabled file locking" kernel , maybe for the sake of the tests getting higher privileges (System) might be enough? Just in case: http://www.grubletrang.com/SoftwareList.aspx http://www.grubletrang.com/Software.aspx?app=PowerPrompt jaclaz

Which make/release is the BIOS? The most likely is that the grub4dos MBR first sector is recognized as "non-suitable", there are a number of BIOS releases that will do that, the debate being if this was done for incompetence (I tend to believe this) or in a deliberate sabotage attempt (as some other people are convinced of). Read this: http://reboot.pro/index.php?showtopic=10503 BUT there are also several other reasons possible, including size of the USB device and filesystem used. Additionally HP's (some models) like most Lenovo's use a "queer" BIOS CHS geometry of 240/63 (instead of the usual 255/63) at least on internal devices (there are no "solid" reports of this applyung to USB devices too AFAICR). http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23147 Make SURE that you also read the aging but still substantially valid FAQ#10: http://jaclaz.altervista.org/Projects/USB/USBfaqs.html jaclaz

Doesn't this bring us back here : and to .ini files? jaclaz

No tricks, nothing in the hands.... Google for "DIMS service Vista" Read the google excerpts returned, get here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/12/18/troubleshooting-credential-roaming.aspx Move to: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/01/06/certs-on-wheels-understanding-credential-roaming.aspx Get here: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=306992 (nothing of use ) Get here : http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;907247 jaclaz

No prob . Sure, you need to know how to ask it.... jaclaz

Are you sure XP does not have vss? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb968832(v=vs.85).aspx (learning that all these years I've been using something that doesn' t exist may be too much a shock for my poor, old heart ) jaclaz

Better getting it directly from the mouth of the wolf: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html the good news are that almost everyone on this thread could from now on pride him/herself with: being older that 5 years sharing the same views of a "Design guru", actually saying the SAME things long before he did (and of course the "Design guru" doesn't have an idea about what productivity is, since he praises the Office ribbon ) jaclaz

See this thread (more about SATA to IDE, but also talks about "bi-directional" ones): What you want is something like this (you have a "SATA only" motherboard - and presumably power supply connectors - and you want to install to it a IDE/ATA (ATAPI) CD/DVD drive, right? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232004 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812107112 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200787 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812705119 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812200196 the point is if you have a suitable power connector coming from the PSU, the one above uses a "floppy style" one AND if you have enough space "behind" the CD/DVD drive in the case, otherwise you will need this kind: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812197005 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186095 that takes very little space. Anyway you have an IDE device that you want to connect to a SATA port, if you read attentively you will find (though the ide 2 sata or sata 2 ide is used indifferently) which one are the "right" ones for you. jaclaz

Have you actually READ WHO actually told that to the user? JFYI: http://geek-squad.p***edconsumer.com/ http://geek-squad.p***edconsumer.com/geeksquad-scam-20120815339421.html (you'l have to replace the three asterisks "***" with "iss", the board bad words corrector kicked in) You have very, very, VERY small chances of finding anyone belonging to the Geek Squad that actually knows any better than re-partition/re-format/re-install as the ONLY solution to ANY hardware or software problem (of course there are good an competent peeps among the ranks, but they are an exception). Some time ago, some of the Geek Squad test questionnaire was leaked: http://gizmodo.com/5334205/geek-squad-test/ http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/do_you_have_what_it_takes_be_geek_squad_yes_you_do http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/oregon_news_team_finds_geek_squad_incompetent Judge by yourself. jaclaz

Broken google? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907247/en-us jaclaz

Also a few "smart" users will do the same . Play the game @JorgeA The point is only about the sheer number of (unclassified) apps, for my personal tastes a 30+ alternatives list loses much of it's usefulness as "simple" list without *something* that helps the user in "choosing" which app gives "more" or simply "what the user needs/wants". You are the "father" of this thread and it's mantainer/editor, the only thing I can recommend you is : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/quotes?qt=qt0362962 or, better: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/m/marktwain122044.html jaclaz

Maybe useful, maybe not: http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/ http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html jaclaz

It's not as easy as you seem to think, nowadays anything in IT is a web of cross-licensed patents or attempts to stay away for those by etither claiming they do not apply or that they are not valid. Here is a good example of the mess : http://www.dailytech.com/Of+Lawsuits+and+Licensing+The+Full+Microsoft+v+Android+Story/article23088.htm BUT, if MS is the obstacle, the approach TomTom took to walk around it is their own decision (they could well have used - say - ext2/ext3 and provide an installable filesystem driver or a compatible file explorer and later let the user - should he/she want to - re-format the filesystem as FAT - or whatever else - keeping the "plain" Mass Storage device connection). jaclaz

Sure , that's exactly the idea. Indeed. : What I was trying to point out is that a list with a finite number of choices is useful, as the "casual user" will have a chance (and this is freedom ) to test each of them and then decide which one is better for him/her. When the number of available choices becomes so big that noone in his right mind will be able to test each and every of them, it is not anymore useful and to become useful again, a smaller subset of "editor's picks" starts to be needed. The comment was aimed at two different targets , one being the "editor" JorgeA that might want to exit "neutrality" or "mere listing" to highlight the "best" programs or however provide a "classification" of them, the other one to any programmer that passes by and thinks - by chance - "Cool, I might write another app that does the same as one of these", the message in this case is simply "Make sure you do something new or really cool, otherwise you will have wasted your time on a non-problem as the problem has already been solved, and solved in a myriad of ways". Of course this is only my personal opinion. jaclaz

Well, though it won't probably help for the capping, if I were you I would already have "converted" the "ribbon" cable to a "round one" (and shielded it by using some aluminium foil or the like): http://www.overclockersclub.com/guides/sleeving_cable_guide/ http://www.overclock.net/t/5846/round-ide-cable-guide jaclaz

Which - without entering in the quality/which is better/which is worse/etc. - of the apps listed is - unless I am mistaken - app #31, i.e. you can use next December to try each of them one per day . @JorgeA With all due respect to all the developers involved in the making of these apps , I may suggest that the lack of start menu in Windows 8 is not the ONLY problem affecting 8 or previous MS Operating Systems, so maybe it's time to accept that a whole test month worth of apps has already been made and good willing programmers may find something better to do than writing yet another similar app. Maybe one could use November 30th as a deadline, anything published (and tested successfully) before that "deadline" will be added to the list, anything coming later than that would be an unneeded duplication of something already developed by someone else.... (I don't think that there are hundreds different ways to get back the Start Menu , and even if there are so many, it starts to seem a lot like "exercises in style", nice , but maybe superfluous ) jaclaz

Yes. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html Standard Litany needed: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html and BTW, wrong sub-forum, should go here: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/66-programming-c-delphi-vbvbs-cmdbatch-etc/ jaclaz

NO, evidently that device does not support the "Mass Storage Device" approach. It is possible that the device is "post MS/TomTom" civil lawsuit/agreement and/or that the update you just downloaded "upgraded" your device to the new "working model" of NDIS/Network device. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._TomTom http://discussions.tomtom.com/t5/GO-800-1000-2000-Via-Start-20/Home-vs-MyTomTom/td-p/111373 http://www.datamation.com/osrc/article.php/3807801/Bruce-Perens-Analyzing-Microsofts-TomTom-Lawsuit.htm jaclaz

Yes. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html Two simple steps, listed here: http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=186723 jaclaz