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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 The $MFT (and thus filenames) should have been replaced by a new, "clean" one.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:

I am failing to see the impact I mean, once removed the whining and the "non-news", the cited declaration of intents is all that remains, with just three words: you could have conveyed the same message, and no, it is not an entirely new one jaclaz

Good. This means that you can put the TTL adapter and the screwdriver back in the toolbox, whatever it could be done with it has already been done (i.e. you are out oif the BSY situation). Now try again, connecting the hard disk through the USB. I see no reasons why it shouldn't be seen in Disk Management when USB connected. If it doesn't you will need to put aside (temporarily) that Windows 7 install on the machine and use a Linux "Live CD" (or better a "Live" Linux on a USB stick) to access the disk. In any case, your next step is to procure yourself another disk, surely working, slightly larger than the failed one (i.e. if that disk is 500 Gb, you need a 640 Gb, if it s a 640, you need a 750 one, if it is a 750 you need a 1Tb, etc.). The next step is to make an image (or various "partial images" because of the "bad sectors") of the whole disk. jaclaz

Can I ask you a favour? Would you make a couple .gif's like the quoted one, one with: http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Forrest-Gump.html and one with: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114814/quotes jaclaz

Why don't you simply integrate the SP3 without nlite (this way you are sure thatn nothing has been changed by it)? But wait a minute. Compare with this: http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Are you not tricked by "repair console option"? Does it currently still boot in Safe mode? jaclaz

Sure , as said: but I understood that the idea was to use this approach to install on "other" devices. In any case in this particular case, that partition is FIRST one (and most probably also Primary and Active and on First disk ). If this is the case, you only have to delete migrate.inf alltogether, as (without a migrate.inf) drive lettering will be automatic and first active primary partition on first disk gets C: automatically. If you prefer migrate.inf is a tool originally intended to migrate "current" drive letter and without it the drive lettering wil be automatic, whilst the idea in the mentioned threads is to "abuse" of it by using it to assign arbitrary letters. If you have a "unusual" drive letter and you want to make it "normal" in the new install (on same disk and partition/volume) you remove the setting forcing the "unusual" letter, as opposed to force a "normal" drive letter (i.e. the same that would be assigned without the "forcing"); the idea of abusing of migrate .inf is to have as a result an "unusual" drive letter, not the "normal" or "default" one. Instead of forcing normality, you remove the forcing.... I hope that this clears the point I was trying to make . jaclaz

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It's good to be able to "close" this issue, but still, since one of the approaches suggested is to NEVER turn the power off during the procedure, it makes NO SENSE whatsoever that you are blocked when you power on again (you simply cannot "turn power on again" if you never switched it off).... jaclaz

No. You haven't done your homework and missed reading this : http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19663 What you posted assumes that the DISK SIGNATURE on the "newly" istalled one is actually 67C6BC28 AND that the partition/volume on which you will install will actually start at LBA 63. While this latter is true for any "first" partition on a system partitioned under DOS and NT up to Windows XP/2003 is not often true for disks partitioned under Vista and later, whilst the DISK SIGNATURE, unless you will expressely write it to the MBR like that, in very rare cases (please read as "never" ) will be that same one. As a matter of fact, by making that change you make yourself almost absolutely sure that first partition on "new install disk" will NOT get the C: drive letter. (of course if you plan to re-install on the same disk and partition/volume, then it's OK, the effect will be only to change letter) jaclaz

Heck! General failure reads the drive, NOT the disk! @basilico Standard litany, please : http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html jaclaz