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Just in case the request for refund should be addressed here : http://driverpacks.net/ whilst constructive criticism may be posted here : http://forum.driverpacks.net/ jaclaz

Hmmm. What happens if you terminate the Explorer.exe process before attempting to go to the "New Task"? Also, try to input instead of CMD.EXE, C:\Windows\System32\CMD.EXE .... To get a DIR of the CD, since you will need anyway to work on it on a Windws based machine, easier would probably be: make a .iso image of the CD/DVD (should be through the Disk utility on the Mac) copy the .iso image on the USB stick (the stick needs to be partitioned/formatted with a filesystem that Windows 7 can access) get on the Windows 7 machine 7-zip (if you haven't it already: http://www.7-zip.org/ ) use 7-zip to extract contents of the .iso to a folder (please use a "simple" path with No spaces in it's name, like C:\mytoshcd\) open a command prompt in windows 7 Run these two commands: DIR /S C:\mytoshcd>C:\mydir.dir DIR /S /B C:\mytoshcd>C:\mydirB.dir compress the two .dir files into a .zip archive and attach the archive to your next post (or upload it somewhere and post a link) jaclaz

Can you just attempt doing the following: bring up task manager change to the Application tab press the button New Task type in it cmd.exe press OK button Descrbe EXACTLY what happens when you try doing EXACTLY the above, when exactly (at which steps it freezes if it freezes, etc., etc.). Apart from this: Do you have the Toshiba recovery CD/DVD with you? Can you on another working machine make a DIR /S of it and post it? Can you byurn (on the other machine) a CD/DVD? Or have you got a USB stick that you can use? In some cases it is possible to recreate a XP "install disc" suitable for "Repair" from the recovery CD/DVD. jaclaz

Impossible to say. As explained in the read-me-first: The procedure does act as a form of generic "reset", but this may cause - it depends from the actual CAUSE - to make things worse (i.e. make the disk irrecoverable by a pro even if "as is" it could be recovered ). Mind you it is possible that the disk can be recovered even eith this method (using some different set of commands) the whole point is that we have NO idea of the disgnosis, let alone the "cure". jaclaz

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Since you have far more RAM then what is need to both load and run a 98, if I were you I would try a disk image in RAM. (or a "mixed mode" approach). Either Syslinux/memdisk and grub4dos shoud allow it no prob. jaclaz

UNfortunately the "mup.sys" error means "nothing", as Tripredacus adviced, first thing you must stop the rebooting from happening, so that you can read the BSOD and it's STOP ERROR CODE. BUT, it seems to me like you have two (possibly separate) issues: Normal Mode actually boots BUT you cannot "select" anything Safe Mode goes out to BSOD You can open Task Manager (I presume with CTRL+ALT+DEL), right? Can you run from Task Manager an App (Applications Tab, New Task)? Like if you have on that laptop 7-zip or any other file manager, can you start it? Or can you start cmd.exe from Task Manager? (the idea is to let you copy/backup your data before anything else) jaclaz

Yep, but you also need a desktop to supply power to the disk, or anyway a suitable power supply. Use the mapleleaf guide: http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html If the size is detected as 0 then it is possible that it is a LBA0 problem, though there shouldn't be the "clicking for awhile". jaclaz

There are some issues that need to be resolved, both given answers are either "vague" or downright "wrong" (no offence intended ). Win NT 3.0 does NOT exist AFAICR, you probably mean either 3.5 or 3.51 (or something else). In any case NT up to version 4.0 could read FAT16 and NTFS (and NOT FAT32), and BTW, unless a Service Pack - if I recall correctly SP3 - is installed the NT 4.0 NTFS WILL NOT be compatible with Windows 2000 NTFS.. Windows 3.11 (please read as DOS 6.x) can ONLY access FAT16. Windows 95 and Windows 98 can read ONLY FAT16 and FAT32 (and NOT any version of NTFS). DOS (*any* DOS) need to start from first disk, actve primary partition. Windows NT and 2K can be installed normally on a logical volume inside extended. Windows 95 and Windows 98 cannot "normally" (there are tricks/workaround though). The biggest issues are between the different versions of Win9x and having various DOSes versions (6.22/7.0/7.1), the NT systems are not an issue if not for the filesystems used/needed. Maybe you could choose to have only one between 95 and 98, this would greatly easen the chore, and use FAT16 for all partitons (if the idea is to have one system "see the other"). jaclaz

JFYI, (nothing new under the sun) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Menagerie_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series) jaclaz

RTFM (actually a singe instruction): Yep . Birds, bushes: nonsense, everything revolves about eggs and chickens: http://reboot.pro/3717/page__st__54 And, for NO apparent reason : jaclaz

IF Red is red THEN Green is green http://inquiry.mcdaniel.edu/blog/2011/04/21/modus-ponens-form/ AND: AND there are no artists, but quite a few illustrators behind the green glass door : jaclaz

Hmmm. jaclaz

Better late than never. I have a number of idols or myths in literature, among them I would rate in the very first places G.K. Chesterton (which specifically is irrelevant if not as an excellent writer of what I find a very good English) and Joseph Conrad. I mean, a polish ship captain becoming one of the greatest novelists in another language? If he managed to do that, I can try to at least write posts on a board in a decent English. Thank you for your appraciation, but I still think that my non-native-English condition can be spotted allright..... That's rather easy, actually, the hard part is to try and switch the Vulcan logic part off. No, it won't happen, when you will learn to a certain level another language, the "switch" simply becomes automatic. The advantage for a Latin to learn English (or German for that matters) is that you have *everything* completely different. It is much more difficult to learn properly another Latin language, as the amount of "false friends" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_friend is enormously bigger. Only up to a certain point, some basis, the rest is through reading (and of course some experience in life, I have been working for some time in English speaking countries or however in positions where English was the "common language" ). jaclaz

Well, no. A policy may prescribe the use of cryptography, but I doubt that indicates "Truecrypt" and specifically "Truecrypt pre-boot authentication". In any case if you allow booting from an "external device/media" the machine you are effectively undermine the "spirit" of *any* policy that requires cryptography and/or authenticated access. Personally I would rather have a (theoretically less secure) grub4dos password protected setup and a "normal" (without pre-boot authentication) crypted volume then allowing booting from external media. jaclaz

Forgot to say how in a completely unrelated experiment: http://reboot.pro/3717/ I actually used the mouclass.sys from Win2K on a XP build: http://reboot.pro/3717/page__st__49 jaclaz

I'm aware of that but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make (perhaps you aren't). Not really "a point", only remembering how there was no "real" "Office suite" at the time, most people bought Excel separately as a stand-alone version, and it was a steep price . Quattro Pro had the great advantage that used Lotus 1-2-3 compatible syntax for functions, no real advantage for a "newbie", but for the few people that were familiar with Lotus represented a "fifth gear"... The Paradox database engine was as well - at the time - well ahead of Access, believe me, I have used both, waaay ahead. At the time (we are talking of 1993/1994) the "Standard" was 4 Mb of RAM, to have 8 was already a "costly" option, the average processor was likely to be a 486 sx 25 or 33, I remember when I got the first machine with a 486 Dx 100 and 32 Mb, people passed by my office just to see how fast it was recalculating a spreadsheet. And yes, noone had calculation on, and F9 was pressed only when really needed. I doubt the young peeps can understand the awe that provoked the first project plannings made with Project 3.0 for Windows! why, in MY day .... http://reboot.pro/1908/ .... and we liked it! OT, but not much , something I titled "Twenty years of evolution in design and breakthrough changes in paradigms" http://reboot.pro/16395/ jaclaz

Not possible the way you devised it. Most logical would be to remove the pre-boot authentication, but since you might have some reasons for it (though it doesn't make much sense if you can allow a non-boot-from-first-hard-disk-only like the proposed CD or USB stick ). What you can do is to have a USB stick (or a CD, but this would make things a tadbit more complex) with grub4dos and have it "set" next boot instance (and "reset" the counter from the booted Truecrypted OS install). A similar (though relating not to EXACTLY the same problem/issue) approach has been explained here: http://reboot.pro/16283/ http://reboot.pro/16283/page__st__10 jaclaz

Because you can do MUCH more with any more recent OS (excluding browsing the Internet and sending e-mails - both things that mostly weren't there in the times of Windows 3.x). Comeon, you *need* anyway some kind of "Office" (a word processor and a spreadsheet at least), a decent image manipulating utility (and no, paint doesnt count), some specific app for your whatever profession, @Coffeefiend At the time the *best* Windows 3.11 spreadsheet IMHO was the mis-known Borland Quattro Pro for Windows (among other things, a much simpler way to "evolve" from Lotus 1-2-3 DOS than Excel): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quattro_Pro and the actual office 4.0 arrived almost two years later than Windows 3.1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Office an "updated user" had Word 1.1 and Excel 3.0 (and only a bit later Word 2.0 and Excel 4.0), I guess noone has ever run Office 4.0 (aka Word 6.0 and Excel 4.0) on Windows 3.1, as everyone (talking of businesses) would have updated to Windows 3.11 for workgroups in the menatime. There was also Paradox for Windows allright (and it actually kicked *ss at Access 1.0 and 2.0) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_(database)#Paradox_for_Windows Yes , Autocad was at the time EXCLUSIVELY DOS (the R13 version arrived late and was actually a joke, probably also because hardware was so "UNpowerful", first usable Windows version being R14, MUCH later): http://autodesk.blogs.com/AutoCAD%20Release%20History%202011.jpg jaclaz

Yes. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html WHICH OS? http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html For 7: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg487330.aspx http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/7947-force-dvi-hdmi-resolutions-refresh-rates.html Useful: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dump_edid.html jaclaz

McKillerRus, you might want to provide (besides a MEANINGFUL title to the thread, a thread titled "Problem" with sub-title "Problem" is UNlike to raise much interest) some MEANINGFUL info, compare with: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html jaclaz

#212 http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm jaclaz

JFYI: jaclaz

When I did some experiments with Xpe (some time ago) I had NO troubles whatsoever in installing it in a Qemu (+Qemu Manager) machine, I simply installed a fresh XP (Sp3) to it, and then in it installed the XP embedded building environment, cannot remember any particular trouble . Sure it was NOT "snappy", but it worked allright... jaclaz

The .iso NEEDS to be set ofr ramdisk booting (Windows Server 2003 SP1 files) or you need Firadisk or Winvblock (or similar) Ramdisk drivers enabled, possibly in a grub4dos loaded floppy image, otherwise you will get the usual 0x0000007b BSOD. jaclaz