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

Yes , but you also must remember how you CANNOT have an XP without Internet Explorer jaclaz

I still cannot understand fully what you need/want to do. Generally speaking, since you are talking of Windows 7, Powershell has seemingly a few powerful methods to deal with ACL, but my knowledge on them ends right here. http://waynestorey.com/blog/2012/01/31/change-permissions-on-registry-hive-recursively/ This may be something like it: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/archive/2011/08/29/powershell-sid-walker-texas-ranger-part-1.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/ashleymcglone/archive/2011/09/16/powershell-sid-walker-texas-ranger-part-2.aspx jaclaz

If I may , putting "senseless" Chinese as caption to images is not a "very smart" thing to do. A lot of people (we are talking of billions) can read Chinese, this way you expose yourself (or the project you are doing or the client you are working for) to either critics (you could inadvertedly write something obscene or defamatory) or to public scorn or however great hilarity. It is a known case with tatoos, for which sometime senseless ideograms are used, and when the poor guy/gal goes to a beach, he/she finds often a few people laughing. Example: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/essays/tattoos.htm These may interest you: http://www.ehow.com/how_5154083_write-chinese-characters-microsoft-word.html http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/word-help/about-creating-a-simplified-chinese-document-HP003089534.aspx If I were you I would write down a senceful caption for the image in English (as simple as possible) then input it in such services as Google Translate or similar, then submit the Chinese result again in the translation to English (to check the sense remains the same and - if needed slightly change the original and loop until the bi-directional translation makes sense). jaclaz

What I don't understand is the "export the registry's CLSID list" and "clean it up". As an example, but I need more details to understand if something more is needed, if you run: reg query HKCR\CLSID\ You already have a list of the CLSID's in HKCR\CLSID\, is not that enough? A (absolutely "fake") code example: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS FOR /F "tokens=1,2,3 delims=\" %%A IN ('REG.EXE query HKCR\CLSID\') DO ( ECHO setaclx64.exe -on "%%A\%%B\%%C" -ot reg -actn setowner -ownr "n:S-1-5-32-544;s:y" ECHO setaclx64.exe -on "%%A\%%B\%%C" -ot reg -actn ace -ace "n:S-1-5-32-544;p:full;s:y;i:so,sc;m:set;w:dacl" ECHO setaclx64.exe -on "%%A\%%B\%%C" -ot reg -actn ace -ace "n:S-1-5-80-956008885-3418522649-1831038044-1853292631-2271478464;p:full;s:y;i:so,sc;m:revoke;w:dacl" ) jaclaz

Just a random one. Is there any reason why one can't make a small batch and let it go through all the Registry, "HKCR\CLSID\{CLSID VALUE}", "HKCU\CLSID\{CLSID VALUE}" etc.? It will probably take some time but should be usable, or there is some catch that I am completely overlooking? Another random one, would Regacl: http://www.gbordier.com/gbtools/index.htm work and behave more like what you want to do? REGACL v1.3, Copyright Guillaume Bordier 1999, guillaume.bordier@iname.com Modify registry permissions (local and remote) usage : regacl <Key> [/{G|R|S} {user|group}:{R|W|F}] [..] [/RECURSIVE] [/REPLACE] /G=Grant /S=Set /R=Revoke R=Read W=Write F=Full Control Key =[\\ComputerName\]<Hive>\<RegKey> Hive: remote : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM) or HKEY_USERS (HKU) local : remote + HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR) or HKEY_CURRENT_USER (HKCU) Warning : Grant is additive, Set is not (better use /S). /RECURSIVE apply permissions to subkeys /REPLACE replace existing permissions /INHERIT make the setting inheritable to future sub-keys jaclaz

It's not about being inventive, it's about not knowing some command syntax/not experimenting on command line. Try executing in a command prompt: then try again with: DIr (without /b ) will have a "type" of output (NOT compatible with using the %%A variable), Dir /b will have another "type" of output. And, in any case, you cannot remove the /F in the FOR command! Read: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.php And, additionally the ~z won't work with "different from current" path. In your posted example, what you want is most probably a .cmd (AND NOT a .exe) like: the ECHO is there just to "protect the innocents" . jaclaz

I am not sure to get it. That's 3 (three) lines in batch: REG ADD “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Minimal\MSIServer” / VE /T REG_SZ /F /D ”Service” REG ADD “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network\MSIServer” /VE /T REG_SZ /F /D” Service” net start msiserver Am I missing something? jaclaz

Maybe it is not there when the VM is running..... http://www.virtuatopia.com/index.php/Migrating_Hyper-V_Virtual_Machines_Using_Import/Export jaclaz

NO. To perform a PCB swap you neeed to also swap the ROM chip. Additionally, there is the greatest risk that your current PCB has a burned chip BECAUSE the motor is suffering from a short or the spindle bearing is seized. IF this is the case by connecting another PCB it is very likely that you will ALSO burn the same chip on it , and don't assume that is "easy-peasy" to find a suitable PCB for an exchange. It COULD be a shot TVS diode, compare with: http://forum.hddguru.com/seagate-500gb-st9500325as-5400rpm-pcb-problem-t18921.html if this is the case, it has to be determined WHY the TVS short was triggered before removing it, but from what you post I doubt this is the case, as the behaviour would be different. jaclaz