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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

One reason : http://www.edrants.com/3am-magazine-how-twelve-years-of-literary-content-disappeared-in-an-instant/ jaclaz

Well, a mix of crystall ball and mathematics seemingly did the trick of seeing in the future : page__view__findpost__p__1008975 the bad news being that if the trend changes, it is likely that Windows 8 will actually last enough to get a Service Pack 1 jaclaz

Text layouts both perfect . NO, if possible I would like it with a transparent background, so that it can be used on *any* forum. jaclaz

No actual way to recover the filesystem "as it was". The $MFT (and thus filenames) should have been replaced by a new, "clean" one. Possibly traces of it (exceeding the initial size) may be found. Right now your best bet is to connect it through a USB adapter and see what DMDE finds: http://softdm.com/ jaclaz

Oh, yes, johnc did allright. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744347(v=WS.10).aspx Simplified: BCDboot <source path> [options] <target drive> What System (the PE, aka "source") do you have running? Do you have a C:\windows or a D:\Windows when you boot from the USB hdd (before you partition format the PC internal HD)? Just open a command prompt and in it type: SET Windir If you have C:\Windows you run: BCDboot C:\Windows /s E: jaclaz

Guees WHY exactly the good Apple guys came out with the "mini" iPad? Could it be for people that think a cellphone is too small but a tablet/netbook too big? jaclaz

B ) *exactly* as shown in my Post # 374 but with the periods put in (as you show in Post # 376) so that "gone." is right aligned. Perfect BUT in E) "poof" and all preceding text disappears and only "He's gone." remains for a little bit more, so that it is also highlighted... Yes. I didn't notice that, hey, you could use a transparent background, instead! . Yep, in this case it is more a "closing" sentence, no actual need/wish for a "poofy" effect, and no need for the "jaclaz!!!" effect. jaclaz

Yes, your edited way #2 is more easy to understand, but I had got it also earlier, I like it. And yes, the poofy effect is exactly what I would like to highlight. In the same frame should appear: then the poof should disappear, while the "He's gone" should remain for some more (but relatively short period of) time, and as I see it the whole sentence should be replaced by the appearing (and fast disappearing) of the "jaclaz!!!" About the Forrest Gump thingy if you can make it exactly like you made your: it would be perfect (after all it is just another "version" of your "closing sentence above, the only difference being that reading the: I still giggle.... , as well as I do at: (but this latter can be only seldom be re-used) jaclaz

The usual set of seemingly UNconnected links: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/81498 http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/linux-user-switches-dos-part-two http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/three-best-star-wars-influenced-approaches-learning-linux IMHO the good Linux guys are as well (meaning just like MS) completely clueless about how to actually make something useful/productive. From time to time I quickly try one of the new releases/distro's and every single time I find either of three situations: a senseless "mock up" of Windows XP/7 with a lot of (unneeded) eye candy but very little "juice" a "guru only" environment where nothing is doable without having already a rather advanced knowledge of the command line tools (almost, but not quite, completely unlike dos) a "specialized" distro that invariably was specialized by someone that has NO idea of what an actual "specialized" user would do I remember a time when (though still preliminary/under development) there used to be distro's which appeared a good compromise between usability and power at your firngertips, as an example, I remember Morphix as a potentially good one (currently "in coma"): http://www.morphix.org/ Most probably I am getting old, and even more probably I got casually my hands on non-ideal distro's (at least lately), but I have the feeling that the great idea behind Linux (freedom) is vanified by excesses of it, I seem to never be able to get a simple, stable, no-nonsense, easily configurable something, if I get one of the "mainstream" and "full" distro, I have the impression of having a catalog of apps instead of an OS, if I get a simple, small distro, I get something so "vertical" that it is useless for anything else but the single (or very few) scopes the developer had in mind, but it nonetheless contains a whole lot of "fluff" that is not needed at all (for the declared scope) and only makes things bigger/slower/more complex than needed. As said most probably it is just me .... still .... jaclaz

Yep , using a transparent background .gif is the best choice. And the layout of the longer sentence is good, though (maybe) one could add a few dots: The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. And like that, ......... poof. He's gone. I used Courier in the above just ot have a monospaced font and give the idea of the "He's gone." "right aligned to the rest. One could use the dot's appearing one by one before the final sentence, like: And like that, ... And like that, .... And like that, ..... And like that, ....... And like that, ........ And like that, ......... And like that, ......... poof. And like that, ......... poof. He's gone. Way #2 sounds really nice. jaclaz

Yes/no. You should also have the option ot install a second instance (without formatting anything) that is the "strange" part. A "standard" XP does try to find an existing installation (and you can use the R option to repair it), but it also looks for already formatted drives and gives you the option to NOT format it (or if you prefere to install on an already formatted volume/partition). If you have the space (ant the CD provides the option) you can temporarily install a second instance of XP, this could help in finding the "troubling" files by comparison. I cannot say WHICH among: the source being "HP" the source being "MCE" the slipstreamed SP3 the slipstreaming of SP3 through nlite could be the cause of the behaviour you get . jaclaz

Oww, come on. Is this a new dimension to "generalizing"? On other news: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/03/29/0025239/munich-has-saved-4m-so-far-after-switch-to-linux http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.golem.de%2Fnews%2Fob-christian-ude-muenchen-spart-mit-limux-geld-und-hat-weniger-stoerungen-1203-90821.html Original German: http://www.golem.de/news/ob-christian-ude-muenchen-spart-mit-limux-geld-und-hat-weniger-stoerungen-1203-90821.html It is possible? Yes. Has it be done? Yes. Are there some issues? Of course (and of course you won't be told which they actually were, as who took the decision have all the interest in minimizing reports of issues and maximizing the news about savings, i.e. to report the success of the switch). But, again, there is not written anywhere that you will have only one Operating System (or only one operating system provider) there are no reasons why mixed approaches won't work, in the case of Munich the transition took 8 years (and possibly will never reach 100%): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_adopters But since a few years "office" work is done on OpenOffice and e-mails are sent and received through Thunderbird, so the theory of MS office or Exchange being somehow "needed" is disproved fully. These old news (2005): http://www.zdnet.com/munich-picks-its-linux-distro-3039195204/ will most probably be appreciated by CharlotteTheHarlot : jaclaz

Yes. Only seemingly unrelated: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24649 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=&showtopic=24649&view=findpost&p=170201 jaclaz

In case of need, the THREE "Golden Rules": jaclaz

And the files that are missing in the "source" will appear, materializing from thin air? BCDboot first copies needed files (from the booted environment, the WinPE in this case) and then sets the BCD "properly". Just for the record, MS names partitions the "wrong" way: http://www.multibooters.co.uk/system.html When someone talks of "Boot" and "System" volumes he/she should always specify if the used convention is the "right" one or the "reversed" MS way. jaclaz

I may be way off, but I thought that "windows Update" was already exactly that. I mean, you install from your original CD/DVD a MS OS and then you will have some (several) hours of downloading updates (and rebooting between them and what not). BTW, this method has caused historically catastrophic failures over installed "production" systems (not very often but it DID happen) . In the good ol'times you upgraded the source integrating latest Service Pack (a single operation) and the number of "needed" updates were minimal. As I see it (and this is what some good guys do "privately") a cumulative, integrated set of updates is very handy, one "update model" does not exclude the other. An IT administrator will find much faster/handy a "set of cumulative updates" that he/she can prepare and deploy to all computers without using any "external" bandwidth, the "home" or "small office user" will find single online updates (automated) much more comfortable. A Tech/Repairman would find handy a way to access "manually" single updates. In a perfect world there would exist a method (officaial, supported by MS) to: have all updates clearly listed/accessible "individually" (Digitalfox on this is 100% right, sometimes finding "manually" an update is a nughtmare) have an "intelligent" automatic "online" updater (Windows Update) have a way to combine them together and create a "monolithic" "Service Pack" or "Cumulative Upgrade" package this way every user could choose the way that best suits him/her and noone would have reasons to whine. jaclaz P.S.: Mind you this does not apply "only" to the OS, example: