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Unless I am mistaken, you are using the disk under Win98 in "IDE emulation mode". Are you doing the same on Win2k (or are you using "AHCI" drivers)? If yes, the difference is likely to be NCQ . jaclaz

Sure, you meant well : but the result is currently : (possibly) *fast* NOT working vs: (possibly) *slow* working I would rather have the Win9x actually working (no matter whether *slow* or *fast*) and only later see if it can be sped up..... jaclaz

BEFORE that: Back to the origins... Something you, like the vast majority of people, might be unaware of, is that the original design for the wheel was a square. after a very unfortunate attempt to reduce the number of bumps by using a triangle as shape.... ...it was later re-invented as an octagon, with the new approach of reducing the magnitude of bumps.... ....then the latter idea evolved into a dodecagon.... ...and only relatively recently it was fully developed as a circle ... Why, in my day, all we had was...: http://reboot.pro/1908/ and we LIKED it! Me wasn't actually that bad, it was a bettered Windows 98, only worse. (BTW not as bad as Vista - a bettered XP, only MUCH worse ) jaclaz

beginning? The PLoP DOS USB driver is by design Read Only. Once it has been used for the first part of booting it is normally replaced by ANOTHER driver (capable of R/W operations). This happens "by default" when you boot a NT based system (which "protected mode" part loads it's own drivers) : http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/plop (or any Linux distro) up to you to find a way that may work in DOS (and/or Windows 9x/Me), here is some loose info: http://forum.plop.at/index.php?topic=92.0 BTW there is NO actual need for you to use PLoP, it was dencorso's idea to try using it..... (but - to be fair - only in order to test the USB booting speed of your mothrboard ). jaclaz

Hey guys, do you have an idea of HOW bootfix.bin works? The CD bootsector (the 2048 byte file sometimes referred to as "Arnes Boot Record" or "Microsoft Corporation.img") innvokes TWO files: bootfix.bin setupldr.bin to use bootfix.bin on a FAT or NTFS filesystem, all you have to do is to write a bootsector capable of invoking TWO files (instead of one). But if grub4dos (or similar) bootmanager is used there are ways..... Here is an old example: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16980&st=5 WinsetupfromUSB, not-so-casually, has a suitable (more complex) menu system exactly for this reason: jaclaz

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You find another "rarely" used character and it will do. I have it (the §) on my keyboard, so I tend to use it. Though I cannot see how it can become "butchered", as it is simply an intermediate step, and it is "added" bu a batch and "removed" by the next. In any case the idea of §<n*#>§ is simply that of having an "unlikely to be present in a .inf/.ini/.sif" string for substitution, to reèplace characters that are not parsable by a batch. The: is most probably a =\CR+LF" sequence. If yes, you can use gsar allright. jaclaz

Hmmm, you guys had way too much fun while I was away. @Dave-H Start form scratch. Just partition/format the thing with RMPREPUSB. For the record RMPREPUSB was developed - among other reasons - to correct a number of misbehaviours of the HP Format utility, and applies a couple of "tricks" sometimes useful. Using the HP Format utility in 2012 is "looking (UNNEEDEDLY) for troubles. jaclaz

Why should anyone help someone that SHOUTS at us, not-so-hiddenly hinting that we are a bunch of heartless bastards that are not willing to help? Personally I am a grumpy heartless bastard, so that's allright , but I usually try to help people that don't shout and have the patience to wait. As you might know, there is something that is called "professional help", given in exchange of a commodity called "money", which is an alternative to "free help" given by people for no money that do so in their free time at at their own pace. If the amount of money is big enough, then - and still within limits - with "professional help" you may be allowed to be impatient and also to shout. jaclaz

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