jaclaz

You need such a power supply expecially AFTER you have bought the referenced item . But you can get it from *any* desktop PSU, at the most you may need a Molex 4 pin to SATA cable/adapter, something like this one: An alternative is to buy one of those El-Cheapo USB adapters, example: If you have not a clear idea of the procedure, read the "alternate" and actually suggested as it is more detailed, with images and what not guide: http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html jaclaz

If I may, (in an attempt to clear what the problem is) most programs use for the "Save as" a Windows API or dll. Some don't, an example is (if I remember correctly) - and BTW somewhat surprisingly - some versions of MS Office. This is often evident when using localized versions of the software but English MS OS, or viceversa. jaclaz

Cannot understand what you mean, can you try expanding on it? : The beta is online since december 2010 with very little problems reported by the users, so I would call it "stable". A number of issues has been resolved in it that affected the orignal "stable" version. Try it and report if you still have the same problems. jaclaz

How are members of the board supposed to know (first two missing pieces of info among, many, many more): WHICH version of PE you are using? WHAT EXACTLY you have currently in your WinPE disc (which I presume is actually a .iso image since it is "on the network")? http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html jaclaz

If I may make a few comments (regarding the Italian "banners"): ITALY That is a tongue twister - not really used any time if not for teaching it to babies.... This is rarely (please read as "never") used if not to give an example of a palindrome. A rarely used proverb, from a graphical standpoint, at first sight is looks like an Italian/Swiss flag . In any case that is NOT (anymore) the Italian Army flag (that since 1946 uses the "normal" Italian flag): http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regio_Esercito http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Italy_(1860).svg Yes, that is a commonly used saying. This is commonly used in a negative sense (meaning that the son has the same defects of the father) NIce ones, though an "Italians do it better" and "Italian, and proud of it" captions would be IMHO even nicer. OT and JFYI: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24770&start=0&p=170782entry170782 jaclaz

Doesn't Hijackthis.de serve this purpose? http://www.hijackthis.de/en Beside using NORTON and any number of (senseless IMHO ) toolbars, I see not that much big troubles, exception made for the Conduit thingies. Personally I would NOT having running the ConduitEngine on any PC in a radius of - say - 300 metres from where I am!. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_conduit_engine http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=62832 jaclaz

But I have no handy 7 system, so I cannot check if it works, if the strings are correct, etc. If someone verifies that Finds the taks and roduces the right PID, and which actual name the "Windows Modules Installer" service has, and that the commands: sc query <name_of_Windows_Modules_Installer> and sc start <name_of_Windows_Modules_Installer> or net start <name_of_Windows_Modules_Installer> work and that the output for the running service is similar to this: I guess it can be done allright . jaclaz

Usual semi-random idea. Doeesn't 7 has the tasklist command? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb491010.aspx Something along the lines of: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SET Process_Name=trustedinstaller FOR /F "tokens=1,2" %%A IN ('tasklist ^|FIND /i %Process_Name%') DO ECHO %%B PAUSE might do. jaclaz

Well, first thing I wish to thank you for the nice avatar , though I won't use it , as it may hint that somehow my nature is somehow violent or unfriendly , whilst in reality I am more like a nice guy , only very, very grumpy. But you actually caught perfectly my natural attitude towards aggressive diplomacy : which I express mainly through the character of Wonko the Sane . jaclaz

Maybe of some use (or maybe completley NOT ), an old howto: (do not even THINK of using it "as is" on newish HD's) jaclaz

You talkin' to me? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_talkin'_to_me%3F jaclaz

@dencorso JFYI, and on XP (and NOT - I think - on newer NT systems): http://www.grubletrang.com/SoftwareList.aspx http://www.grubletrang.com/Software.aspx?app=PowerPrompt jaclaz

Just for the record: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24825&hl= Scrap that . Try using this one ONLY: jaclaz

BOTH sides of the cable? Have you run from CD the appropriate HD manufacturer test utility? Have you tried a boot CD with grub4dos and attempted loading the Vista by passing the MBR and bootsector CODE by directly chainloading the C:\BOOTMGR (or - better- (hd0,x)/bootmgr)? Have you tried making a "Vista boot floppy" image and load it through grub4dos from CD? http://www.multibooters.co.uk/floppy.html Good, but if when booted from CD everything is fine, RAM should not be connected with the issue at hand. Due to the intermittent nature of this issue, next step I would take (AFTER all the previously listed tests will be carried satisfactorily) would be disassembling the stoopid thingy and visually inspect for any cold solder joint, something more common than one might expect, but that will take lots of time and attention to be carried out properly jaclaz

Personally I rate the reliability of a "Geek Squad" Diagnosis to be very, and I mean very near to 0 (in a scale from 0 to three and a half zillions ) Which sounds a lot more like some hardware related problem, I would first thing verify THOROUGHFULLY that the hard disk (and it's cable and contacts) are "clean & sound". Let me disagree, a problem with either FAT or MBR (and I do doubt that that hard disk has any partition FAT formatted) tend to be (please read as "are") binary, 0/1 or Off/On, no way that sometimes it boots and sometimes it doesn't. Yes, actually more than one. Yes. http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/questions-with-yes-or-no-answers.html Once said that "intermittent" problems are the most difficult to troubleshoot , first things to try are: boot from another media (CD or DVD) and/or boot from another media (USB) run appropriate diagnostics on the system, as said expecially to hard disk, but I would chek also RAM with memtest+ or the like. and/or check the hard disk on another system through an USB adapter or similar To get the HD out of the laptop, if needed, see here: http://www.insidemylaptop.com/disassemble-hp-pavilion-dv6500-dv6600-dv6700-dv6800-notebooks/ From your report I don't get if the "normal" access to BIOS during bootup is fully operational (the F10 )) Just for the record, updating the BIOS was not the smartest move you could have made, the general rule is to NEVER update a BIOS or more generally a firmware on a machine/device that does not already work "perfectly", unless expressly instructed to do so by someone that knows where his/her towel is and in any case ONLY after the issue has been properly diagnosed AND the update is known to represent a solution to the issue. Particularly, if I get that model right and AFAICR, it uses a particular kind of BIOS and BIOS update utility that has been reknown to be - to say the least - very UNreliable. Can you post the EXACT model #? jaclaz

NO idea. Unless this "Mouse Movement Recorder" thingy also works in 2K : http://donewmouseaccel.blogspot.it/ http://donewmouseaccel.blogspot.it/2010/04/markc-mouse-acceleration-fix-builder.html http://donewmouseaccel.blogspot.it/2010/03/markc-windows-7-mouse-acceleration-fix.html jaclaz

Welcome to the club (the one with people that lack that kind of knowledge ). Maybe SEDIV can help? http://forum.hddguru.com/sediv-hdd-seagate-terminal-for-windows-t11980.html http://sediv2008.narod.ru/ jaclaz

Maybe useful (or maybe completely NOT like so ), Session0Cmd: http://reboot.pro/16550/ jaclaz

Here is how it woks: http://web.archive.org/web/20080305002750/http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/input/pointer-bal.mspx? http://www.esreality.com/index.php?a=post&id=1945096 http://www.kotiposti.net/~d636961/WinAccel/ up to you to find the right settings (now that you know what each value mean) jaclaz

Since I am in picky mood, you mean: Actual arbitrary folders are very difficult to create.... jaclaz

Your best bet is to try running again from scratch. http://www.experimental-playground.com/index.cfm/2009/6/16/seagate-recovery jaclaz

Hmmm. Something like this might do: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION IF /I %1.==/S. SET param=/S&SHIFT SET Target=%1 FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A IN ('DIR /B %param% %target%') DO ( SET points=0 SET filename=%%~nA SET DD=!filename:~0,2! SET MM=!filename:~2,2! SET YY=!filename:~4,2! IF !DD! leq 31 SET /A points+=1 IF !MM! leq 12 SET /A points+=1 IF !YY! leq 99 SET /A points+=1 IF !points!==3 SET filename=!YY!!MM!!DD!!filename:~6!&ECHO REN %%~dpnxA !filename!%%~xA ) jaclaz

@Grofluigi Though your advice seems sound and most probably valid , I think that you cannot really say until you have tried doing it, and possibly tried doing it again and again with some different settings. As fdv pointed out, we were told for a few years how (examples): you cannot strip IE from a Windows OS you cannot boot a NT based OS from USB you cannot boot a NT OS from an image you cannot make a "portable" XP but every time someone took the time to try doing it, if he/she insisted enough, and with the cooperation/ideas/support of a bunch of other peeps, the "said to be impossible" chore resulted after all possible. This does not mean of course that everythng said to be impossible is possible, only that before confirming such impossibility, some "serious" attempts to do it should be made. In these regards fdv has proven in the past to possess the abilities and patience (and ingenuity, and a lot of other qualities) that made possible to strip IE from 2K and XP: http://www.vorck.com/windows/ so he is - as I see it - particularly "qualified" to do "strange, perverted and potentially dangerous things" on a "poor (almost) innocent little Windows OS" . jaclaz

I am not sure to understand. AFAICR it's not the card that needs ISA DMA; it's the "slot" or "bus", i.e. if a motherboard has a ISA bus and an ISA card slot it also has ISA DMA. jaclaz

First few results in a google search: http://www.nixsys.com/products/accessories/motherboards.html?gclid=COfpw7uK7K4CFUZJ3wodalw3Lw http://www.bressner.co.uk/catalog/revision-issue-control-motherboards/isa-motherboards?gclid=COT51vOK7K4CFUFL3wodNV5YIw http://interloper.com/ What do you mean with "which allow DMA"? jaclaz