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Yep , BTW an issue for which we have NO idea WHAT was the cause, let alone the solution finally found by the OP.... jaclaz

With the diskpart in WinPE 3.0 and onward, the equivalent of Rescan is run more than just the time of boot. I found this the hard way when I tried porting my XP recovery partition. The only time you'd need to run /rescan is if you are swapping devices, such as using a card reader or hot-plugging a SATA drive. And... ? WHAT is the point you are trying to make? OP mentioned this: Which suggests THREE courses of action: Refresh the object by using the RESCAN command. exit DiskPart, then restart DiskPart restart the computer of which seemingly only #2 was tested. It seems to me only natural to ask WHAT happens WHEN suggestion #1 is performed, I would agree with you if you say that most MS error messages are mis-leading, unconnected with the actual issue or just plainly wrong , but in a few cases they actually suggest you the right thing to do. jaclaz

It does, rest assured, is the file a TEXT format or a binary one? Well, the fact that your boss made a site with alleycode and that this particuar site makes a 7K bucks a day ( i.e. roughly 2.5 millions US$ per year) are two facts, but not necessarily in a cause-effect relationship. It should mean that your boss is highly creative and knows very well how to build and promote sites, not necesarily that alleycode is popular among programmers (or at least let's say that I know very few programmers making 2.5 million bucks per year, so it is possible that alleycode is popular among only among this -I presume -restricted group of people, let's call them RICH programmers). But a programmer would probably know how to replace a few characters in the beginning of each line in a file. jaclaz

Are we talking of replacing some text in a .htm or .html file? Popular among WHOM? I mean like : Pogrammers Web developers Kids Electricians and Plumbers Other jaclaz

The only difference might be who will actually answer you on the phone : jaclaz

For the record the object that is LEAST grounded in the mentioned example is a door knob (on a wooden door), and I doubt it has enough mass to be of any good, maybe very old type solid brass ones may do, but common cheap aluminium ones won't. What we did (many, many, many) years ago was to charge with high voltage static electricity door knobs in school and wait for the first one that would attempt opening the door. If I recall corrrectly it took more than 10 seconds before the door knob lost it's electrical charge. @vipejc No, it has definitely not enough mass and it is NOT grounded. jaclaz

I don't really understand the reason why you have to ask the question but since the "example" was about a "month", would not the question be more properly: or: jaclaz

No prob, but in order to (hopefully) understand what is happening, please post the WHOLE sequence from the beginning to the point where you get the error and do run: and after having selected each disk with do run (and post output): Additionally, what happens if you actually run the RESCAN command? jaclaz

Shoudn't you before issuing: DISKPART> create partition primary size=100 Issue (optionally): DISKPART> LIST DISKS and select (compulsory) one BEFORE? DISKPART> SELECT DISK 0 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415/en-us jaclaz

Well, all inkjet printers have easy to replace cartridges, the whole point is how much do they cost and how often you need to change them. A (B&W) laser printer is relatively cheap and it's cartridge (toner+drum) is relatively pricey BUT will last with no problems whatsoever for an impressive number of prints. A (color) inkjet printer is so cheap that they could give it two of them as change when you buy a set of it's cartridges, which will last for a small number of prints and are relatively expensive. Once upon a time when you bought an inkjet printer they gave you with it a full set of cartridges, nowadays the cartridges included are "fakes" with 1/4 or 1/5 of the ink of a "full priced" cartridge. To this you add that you need the special photo paper to print decently an image and that probably you'll need two or three print tests each time you print a picture (if you want a good result), that usually a cartridge becomes empty just aroud half the printing of the "final" and that half of the prints that you normally do have no need for colour (but the original is colourful anyway, think at all the web pages you may happen to print). Personally - being notoriously cheap - I have all (B&W) laser printers and when I have to print a picture I have it printed by a service. Read this: http://www.smallbusinesscomputing.com/testdrive/article.php/3521141/Inkjet-Versus-Laser-Printers.htm (mind you the article is aimed to small businesses, but the underlying math makes sense even in a home environment) This is a similar one more targeted to home use: http://www.digital-photography-school.com/printers-laser-vs-inkjet It all depends on the type and amount of your printing needs, the only senceful advice is : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097216/quotes?qt=qt0362962 jaclaz

Well, there are a few ways to get back the DOS. http://www.dewassoc.com/support/winme/real_dos.htm http://www.reocities.com/mfd4life_2000/ The SFP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/253571/en-us has a re-known solution: http://www.mdgx.com/me1.htm#UPH http://erpman1.tripod.com/current/sfpoff.htm additionally it seems like the list of files is in a file sfpdb.sfp and system.cat http://support.microsoft.com/kb/267282/en-us I presume that given there is enough interest in it (which I doubt) someone could use the same kind of tricks were used for 2K and XP WFP and have a "limited" amount of checked files. Turning off System Restore: http://www.onecomputerguy.com/me_tips.htm http://www.onecomputerguy.com/me_tips.htm#system_restore So, WHAT is the problem? jaclaz

No doubt that you have a LEGAL copy of Windows Me. But are you REALLY SURE it is NOT an OEM version? If it is an OEM one, it may quickly become a LEGAL copy of it that you have ILLEGALLY installed close to 49 times.... jaclaz

It depends also on your environment. If you are wearing wool or nylon/polyester clothes and sneakers, and the room you work in has a carpet, it is possible that you charge yourself with a zillion volts. If you are bare-footed, wear cotton clothes and the room has a concrete pavement, you are simply inherently grounded. BUT having an equipotential connection to the device ground is good anyway, as long as the device is also grounded. jaclaz

All in all sounds like a problem with the CD/DVD drive. (the current ones I mean) The missing NTLDR has nothing to do with it, though. Simply get the UBCD: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ and see: if it boots on that machine run the appropriate manufacturer tool for the HD If the CD/DVD drive is flaky, besides replacing it, you can attempt a good ol' DOS based install, this way you can re-attempt copying to the internal hard disk files that have problems during the copy before starting the actual install. A rough guide is here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16713 Or youmay want to go the USB way: http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ jaclaz

doesn't seem to be a problem for those using a legal version. Actually - and just for the record - it should be even less a problem for those using a cracked one. jaclaz

Sure it is possible, as said in the form of grub.exe grub4dos is a Linux kernel (besides being a DOS program), all you need is to add to your Syslinux booting thingy the grub.exe and possibly a modified menu.lst. You are welcome. jaclaz

You mean a mentally affected or the "ugly, unattractive, and creepy looking" Screwupgrading was talking about? Also, "mental condition" may mean everything and the opposite of it. And NO, I don't want to know which particular illness (being it mental or physical) you might be suffering from, I don't think this (MSFN) is the right place to talk about such conditions. jaclaz

I cannot really see the connection between a mentally ill and his/her looks. jaclaz

Well, maybe those Web sites are illegal BECAUSE they provide pirated copies of non-free OS. BTW you would probably have the same kind of issues attempting to run a Win9x on such a machine. Compare with: and with some of the threads listed here: If you have a network card and a hub (and the modem is actually a router, NOT a USB connected modem) you may have some (very small chances). The best thing you can do is to try first in a VM inside your "normal" OS. jaclaz

HOW do you know that? I mean WHERE/HOW did you test that particular CD/DVD build BEFORE this attempt? In ANY case, try again with only the CD/DVD drive and the SATA drive to which you want to install, you can re-add the other HDD's after completing (hopefully) successfully the install. jaclaz

Naaah, it wasn't/isn't AS bad AS most people try to depict it, as I see it it has a lot of nice features , but it suffered IMHO from: like all MS products, initial instability, usually fixed after a short time by a SP1 (that never was released for Me) it never really got the numbers to make a "critical mass" impact, and most software vendors and programmers (generally speaking) never got around using the added capabilities, most things you now run on Me were developed and tested on Windows 98 only and only by chance they do work allright on Me too it was "compressed" (not unlike Windows 2K, but to a far greater extent) by the immediately following release of XP and the senseless pushing for XP Home edition by MS on every OEM machine it was - initially at least - seen as a joke by the good ol' DOS lovers, due to the direct booting in GUI mode the "typical" users were (necessarily) the people who bought it pre-installed in a OEM PC, seriously I never knew anyone which actually bought a "Full install" version these "typical users" - again very understandably - as soon as they got their brand new machines, installed on them a few zillions softwares as said developed and perfectly working on Win9x OS, but that were not truly tested on Me, thus increasing the instabilities of the System, or at least its perceived instabilities So all in all it was/is an AS good AS Win98 OS, but with a far smaller user base, expecially among the peeps that - like most MSFN members do - are interested in the innards of the OS, in tricks and tweaks and what not. I have a good ol' ASUS mini-notebook with Me on it, and I never had actual problems with it (though I actually use that particular PC only rarely and when I do I normally use the other OS that I have installed to it, which is 2K). When I run for tests a DOS based GUI OS I tend also to use a Win98SE system. Good. I am sure that with this approach you will get far more useful replies . jaclaz

Yes, but I don't still see WHY you want to REPLACE grub4dos, maybe it would be easier to integrate the result of WinsetupfromUSB into your Syslinux based thingy. The multipartiioning is only needed (talking of WinsetupfromUSB) if you need several Vista :ph34r:/7 /Server 2008 versions. grub4dos can be chainloaded by Syslinux allright, like (example): So, all you have to do should be to use Syslinux to load the thingy as is (instead of having grub4dos being the "main" bootloader/bootmanager). jaclaz

1) No. 2) The answer, my friend is blowing in the wind. (how do you think we can do the remote mind reading needed to understand WHAT is your new PC and HOW the heck you have it connected to DSL? ) For the 2nd question a Standard Litany is needed: http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html jaclaz

Lots of them, rest assured. Beside using REG.EXE (old school) you can use the MS redistributable Oflline Registrry editing DLL: http://reboot.pro/11212/ http://reboot.pro/11312/ Or maybe from DOS (+ a NTFS driver) the Paul Lee thingy: http://paullee.ru/regstry.html cannot remember if it has a command line mode.... jaclaz

The "Press any key to bot form CD" ONLY happens if the Setup detects an already initialized hard disk, cannot say if you are in this condition. Can you check, and re-check the cables? Is your internal hard disk a SATA one? Is the (internal) CD/DVD a SATA or an IDE/PATA one? HOW exactly did you configure BIOS? WHICH EXACT motherboard model is it? (Crystal ball out to the shop for maintenance ) etc., etc. Standard Litany: http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html (the more info you give - details are important -, the more likely someone may be able to give you appropriate advice) jaclaz