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But you didn't state the actual result you want (and BTW the one liners you posted with the /K swtch have NO way to be actually working, and once the /K is replaced with /L they become sintactically coorect but still make little sense), I had to guess and I am not even 100% sure to have guessed right. Good , you made it a perfect S.E.P. for me (exiting the loop nicely). You are consequently kindly invited to ignore this: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.msdos.batch/browse_thread/thread/382cde7864a7a9b2?pli=1 and this: jaclaz

Sure , I know, the IPad and the blackberry do the same and it is considered (by me and a few other people around) a form of "netiquette" to remove it as it: senselessly "promotes" the device/application (and you don't get any money for it) could (though this is specifically not the case for a Lumia 900 ) cause a sense of "envy" to the readers that would like (but cannot afford) a "desirable" item Think a bit about it, when you send a letter (a real, handwritten, paper letter), do you actually write on it below your signature: When you take your mom somewhere, do you put on her back a sign : jaclaz

Let's see how long we can loop like this. jaclaz

With all due respect , who does actually care from what device did you post that? Posted from a real PC running XP SP2, using Opera Browser 9.52. jaclaz

Well, IMHO, no, but again, if you are happy with them, that's good. If you could provide some documentation/examples about using map with THREE driives it would be nice. In your menu.lst (hd1) is never defined, does your PC have two "real" hard disks? If no floppy mapping is changed, there is no need to explicitly set the number of floppies, the number will remain as it was before. A 64 Mb image could normally be 129/16/63 or (a little larger) 130/16/63. And this is a good occasion to inaugurate latest work by larryb123456: jaclaz

With all due respect you are using a "crazy" CHS and went into all kinds of complex ways to make that image (and to map it in grub4dos). I really cannot make head or tail of your menu.lst entry : but if you are happy with it, that's OK. The bolded commands are undocumented. You map FROM_DRIVE to TO_DRIVE, to the best of my knowledge. The red one seems "random" (or a leftover), as you didn't modify any floppy mapping. The settings for a20 doesn't "look" right, but really cannot say. For the record, you DO NOT need a "boot" command in a menu.lst entry (it is implied and automatically executed when either a "title" or EOF is found) while you need it on command line. jaclaz

The issue right now is that the FOR /K is NOT a documented batch command in XP either. The syntax seems like it is a FOR /L loop: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.php What those one-liners (a batch script tends to be a little more complex) - provided that a /L switch is used - seem aimed to perform is an apparently senseless task, i.e. going through a number of files named n.jpg (respectively with n from 3000000 to 3030799 and from 3030800 to 3030999) and replace all find occurences of the file with a copy of the same source image 0001o.jpg (and of course just one of the two spanning from 3000000 to 3030999 would do instead). Maybe if you explain the actual goal it would be easier to provide you with some suggestions. jaclaz

Two mistakes: you are panicking (you should not ) you are failing to report how EXACTLY you "put the folder "Factoryreset" in the root of a Windoes 7 repair", etc. Most probably you used an incorrect method or tool to modify the Windows 7 "repair" .iso, thus making it not bootable. jaclaz

The good thing about history is that if you study it, you can re-use some of the inventions of the past , something similar to this may become an everyday accessory, though the issue is re-engineering it to make it foldable/portable : You may not believe me, but I actually had a young guy, that once in the good ol' days when I told him to press alt + ctrl + del pressed with his left index the Alt, with his right index the right Ctrl and - short of fingers but not of ideas - pressed the Del with a pencil held in his mouth. Just for fun : jaclaz

....and you owe us TWO happy bunny images + one for the initial consultancy fee.... jaclaz

Naah, that two keys keyboard is the OLD idea , the future is a J38 : you will appreciate how it needs very little space. More seriously, I guess that in order to simplify the OSK is not there anymore or it has anyway a simplified look (and it would be anyway unavailable before complete boot), which also makes any and all bootmanagers (that normally use F-keys in a pre-boot environment) become unusable. (the good news being that grub4dos uses normally not F-keys, but I presume that next ones to be removed will be cursor keys) jaclaz

That's strange , probably because most people (and instructions/tutorials about it) use it as a SSH terminal, but using it as a "pure" Serial Terminal is quite straightforward, or at least as straightforward as using Hyperterminal, just in case: http://www.ciscoconsole.com/networking/how-to-use-putty-as-hyperterminal-in-windows-vista-windows-7.html/ jaclaz

Good . Just in case : You were a bit over-cautious, but I am happy to know that everything went well . Three notable differences between the "canonical way" and the setup you have are: Windows 7 instead of XP or 2K Using XP hyperterminal on Windows 7 USB to TTL instead of RS232 to TTL (hence the use of a driver to create a "virtual" COM port) it is likely that the "disconnection issue" is related to the last one . jaclaz

Don't worry , even if it was impossible Murphy's Law would apply . (actually it is possible, rare, unprobable, but perfectly possible) Yep , the one you were advised explicitly to (temporarily) forget about in order to ONLY follow the CarterinCanada guide (in order to simplify and avoid doubts). Having them clean is always better, see here: jaclaz

Once said that there are different families of Seagate drives and that they can use different set of commands, the *only* resource we have available (apart the two sets of commnds used for the BSY and LBA0 fix + a few more that you can find by browsing this forum and searching for "7200.11" or "7200.12") are these: http://files.hddguru.com/download/Datasheets/Seagate/Seagate%20Diagnostic%20RS-232%20Port/ jaclaz

Version 5A is perfect to me. Thanks a lot for the excellent work . Of course I will tell you .... jaclaz

It's good to see how people actually listens to advice. If you are told to do EXACTLY what is in here: http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html and NOT do anything else read anywhere else, HOW the heck you can have this doubt? For the record, the commands are the same, if you omit the 0 (implicit 0) or if you type it (explicit 0). Personally I find easier to count the 0's, omitting them is good to type it fast (which is completely UNneeded in this case as you should type slowly and double check and triple check everything before sending the command), the command is made of 8 (eight) comma separated values, if a value is omitted, it is parsed as if it was a 0 (zero). Try quickly counting how many values are in this string: m0,2,2,,,,,22 and how many in this one: m0,2,2,0,0,0,0,22 jaclaz

And applies perfectly to point #1 of the list just posted. The instructions in there are all OK but the idea is to avoid the risk of a newbie following anything else but what is known and re-known as "working" and avoid confusing him/her. Before connecting the hard disk a loopback test is strongly suggested , and though the instructions seen on first post of this thread are essentially the same as in the guide by CaterinCanada (the now recommended guide) this latter is much more clear and complete (hence "recommended"). jaclaz

For NO apparent reason : jaclaz

Yep, but the idea (in order to simplify) is: forget (temprarily) anything read anywhere else read the read-me-first if you have questions, they are likely to be Frequntly Asked ones, thus probably you will find the answers in the FGA's follow the recommended tutorial (and NOT anyone else) jaclaz

JFYI: jaclaz

Phaenius, the idea of a read-me-first and of FGA's is to have them read FIRST, so that ALWAYS THE SAME questions are not asked anymore, since they are ALREADY answered (nothwistanding this this SAME questions have been asked OVER and OVER and OVER on this thread, and either answered directly or a pointer to the read-me-first or to the FGA's has been given): If you had actually read them you would know how to perform a loopback test - which is what is advised BEFORE anything else to make sure that the adapter is not DOA and drivers, etc. are working.. (and - conversely - the utter futility of expecting anything with nothing connected to the adapter), besides point #8 of read-me-first and #4 of FGA's this info is not really hidden, and it is not very difficult to understand intuitively. When you type "Hello" on the Hyperterminal, you are sending "Hello" on the Tx wire. Since nothing is connected to it, your "Hello" gets lost in the atmosphere. If you connect rtogether the TX and Rx cable, your "Hello" may echo back, returning to your hyperteminal through the Rx ..... Does the recommended guide here: http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html tell anything about directly changing the COM port parameters? Or does it tell you to ONLY change them in Hyperterminal? The idea of a guide/tutorial/read-me-first etc, is to try doing EXACTLY what is written in there WITHOUT any changes, modifications, etc. Please do your homeworks, read the available resources, avoid asking AGAIN questions answered over and over, do not mix things "like I read somewhere".... jaclaz

Version 4A is almost perfect. BUT on second thought , the poofy effect would be poofier if, as soon as the final dot (full stop in "........poof.") all the preceding text diasappears, then only "........poof." remains for a few frames, then it disappears (leaving the whole image blank for a very short time) and the "He's gone" appears and stays lingering for a few more frames before disappearing in the letter by letter method (and this would probably look nicer if done from left to right insead of the current right to left). jaclaz

@-X- The whole point was/is that it is essential to do backups. Having data BOTH in the cloud and "local" is OK , as it is an effective means of having a backup (of the "right" kind with actual data in two different physical location). But what most users do is to have NO "local" backup and rely entirely on the cloud (and the example is what can happen) or have a single "local" copy of the data. And the cloud, while being most probably managed on "better" hardware and by "better" (in the sense of more knowledgeable) people than the average Joe, is not intrinsically "secure". Now if you sign a remote data storage contract where the provider guarantees your data, or accepts to indemnify you a "reasonable" sum in case of data loss, this may be another matter but the average Joe will use one of more "free" or "low cost" services that give you (understandably) no substantial guarantee of any kind. Just to make a couple names (actually the first two that came up in a google search) check the actual liability terms: http://mozy.com/terms/ http://www.ibackup.com/license/terms_new.htm For NO apparent reason: jaclaz

Perfect : This is perfect! jaclaz