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But there is Winvi too : http://www.winvi.de/en/ jaclaz

With all due respect, using any MS-DOS earlier than 5.0 is asking for trouble. 6.22 is better, and of course 7.x's are even better. Strangely enough they are backwards compatible at - say 99.99% - so you have to provide some substantial reason to run an earlier version. Yes. There is NO such thing as a NTFS hard disk, there can be a NTFS partition or volume or filesystem, NOT a hard disk. A NTFS partition/volume has in the hard disk MBR a partition ID of 07. DOS will think (it depends on the version) either that it is an unknown partition or that it is an HPFS (anyone remembers OS/2?) or a NTFS one and WON'T touch it. Mind you that FDISK or other partition utilities may be able to delete it nonetheless. If you use a decently recent MS-DOS (the 7.x and 8.x work, I cannot say the 6.22) you can use the NTFS4DOS driver to access R/W a NTFS partition or use the old NTFSDOS Sysinternals driver to aceess it Read Only. Earlier DOSes won't even be able to see/access properly partition types: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html Please note how *any partition* created/formatted in XP and later won't use anymore types: (in practice the ONLY partitions types that DOS pre 7.x can use (besides the "historical" 01 and 04), so you will have problems NOT only with NTFS access) Rather than dosbox, you can use Qemu (+Qemu Manager) or any other VM on modern hardware. jaclaz

I find it to be a little reductive to "catalog" lyx as a "pdf creation tool". You want a Word Processor (or "document processor") with .pdf exporting ( or printing) facility. Besides the "normal" OpenOffice/LibreOffice Write, you can use *any* Word Processor you like (even if it has no PDF export) in conjunction with a .pdf printer app. The "difficult part" is normally the "training" of the "other user" on the specific word processor. jaclaz

Most probably NOT what you asked, but anyway: http://barnyard.syr.edu/~vefatica/#KTIMES regtime: http://code.google.com/p/winforensicaanalysis/downloads/list What about using a .dll provided by the good MS guys? http://reboot.pro/11212/ jaclaz

Only seemingly OT and just for the fun of it : http://reboot.pro/15207/ Generally speaking mingw compiled apps are far "better" (in the sense of more compact, more easibly deployable) than Cygwin ones, though. The main thing IMHO is, if you are going to distribute the Source code, that you also detail WHICH exact compiler you used and the exact way the thingy has to be compiled. Whenever possible try NOT to use a zillion of stupid do-it-all .dll's. jaclaz

What about checking Service Start settings in the Registry? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310123/en-us jaclaz

See if this works: http://www.stevemiller.net/puretext/ Would this help? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Layer_for_Unicode http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=4237 jaclaz

I recommend NOT using WAREZ. @silvias Generally speaking, connecting the HD to a PC through a USB adapter will NOT "lock" the PC. Whether the hard disk will be detected or not is anouther thing. In your case CrystalDiskInfo is as useful as a bycicle to a fish. jaclaz

Scintilla (Scite). What else? : http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html And: http://www.distasis.com/cpp/scitetip.htm jaclaz

You may want to have a try to diagnose the issue with the free version of SEDIV: http://sediv2008.narod.ru/ http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsediv2008.narod.ru%2F&sl=ru&tl=en&hl=it&ie=UTF-8 but cannot say if it is now compatible with 7200.12 or more generally if it can be of any use for the specific issue. More generally "intermittent" errors are a BIG PITA, and they are particularly difficult to troubleshoot. While you have removed the PCB do check contacts, just in case: jaclaz

Well, not for me, unless it is a VERY OBVIOUS problem in the .vbs, it is UNlikely I can help you with it . But I am pretty sure that someone will try and help you with it, so why don't you provide the files anyway jaclaz

Just an idea, but maybe the "special" drivers are "normal" drivers that some senseless developer nicely wrapped in a .Net based installer. I.e. maybe it is possible to extract from the "special" driver file/setup some actual "normal" driver file compatible with the $oem$ approach. jaclaz

Cannot say if better or even just "good" , I'm only highlighting for you the contents of the referenced method (that I repeat I have NO way to know if it will work for you, nor - more generally - if it works at all ): http://computersciencelabs.blogspot.com/2011/02/seagate-720012-sim-error-firmware-fault.html Also, even the "known" BSY fix for 7200.11 needs to have the PCB removed (or either set of contacts insulated) so I wonder HOW you ran that fix. jaclaz

See if this: http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/w-p/clipboard/article.php/c3009 or this: http://www.informatics-consulting.ch/software/cbtext.htm can do. Or see if you can do something with AutoHotKey: http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic8397.html There is this one also, but needs .Net http://www.pastecopy.net/ jaclaz

Not actually a PC, but related. Very old, small external "particular" case salvaged from a dustbin (literally). It appeared as a Toshiba external case to add network connectivity to some very early portable (we are talking of 1992 or 1993, so the thingy probably dated back to pre-1990). Apart from a strange connector with a zillion pins, and a huge card with a number of IC's (some even on sockets ) inside the case there was a small PSU capable of giving BOTH +5V and +12V with enough amps. Having already: a number of SCSI devices a SCSI PC-Card a Notebook I decided to make the thingy into an external SCSI enclosure. After MUCH work with hacksaw, drill, files, etc. to fit in the case a CD, a ZIP and a hard disk, it was finally ready for the switch-on test. The only little problem was that during the various disassemble/re-assemble/see if it fits/modify/etc. I had switched the PSU input voltage selector from 250 V to 110 V . A nice litlle flash and bang later I had a nice enclosure perfectly adapted to host the drives BUT with a non-standard burned PSU..... jaclaz

Giving up is NEVER an option! jaclaz

Just for the record, besides Everything: http://www.deadnode.org/sw/tfind/ http://www.jam-software.com/ultrasearch/ http://www.glarysoft.com/products/utilities/quick-search/ http://code.google.com/p/fastfind/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ntfs-search/ Command line: http://ndff.hotbox.ru/en/ jaclaz

With the PCB connected or disconnected? MInd you, this is just : curiosity an attempt to have you provide EXACT, DETAILed info As I have NO IDEA whatsoever of what a solution could be, and though there is no actually diagnosis of the actual problem, even if there was one and if it was accurate, we would have no documented cure for it. jaclaz

Also, Steve6375 just: confirmed that RMPREPUSB was never tested on 2K hinted that the problem may be caused by the differences in the FormatEX API between 2K and XP (and as such not easily solvable ) You may try formatting as FAT32 instead of NTFS, but you are currently working in a totally UNexplored ground. jaclaz

That is for 7200.11 AND NOT for 7200.12 AFAIK. We don't have a "proper" procedure for the 7200.12 only a single "undefined" (or possibly PLAINLY WRONG ) report: You may want to TRY this one: http://computersciencelabs.blogspot.com/2011/02/seagate-720012-sim-error-firmware-fault.html jaclaz

WHICH procedure? jaclaz

I haven't yet understood (I fear because you completely failed to provide meaningful data to allow me to do so ) what exactly the issue is. I need: the file BEFORE the runnning of the scripts an EXACT description of the scripts you ran on it - or better a copy of the actual scripts you ran - and the order in which you ran them the file AFTER the running of the scripts Standard litany : http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html jaclaz

That is seemingly related to the RMPREPUSB only. Partition/format the device manually. A "not-so-simple" approach (BUT surely working on 2K as it was actually developed on 2K), is detailed here: http://reboot.pro/5000/ http://reboot.pro/5000/page__st__1 I will anyway "ping" steve6375 (RMPREPUSB Author ) to let him know about the issue you reported. jaclaz

Well, you obviously need to review the half-@§§ed replacement strings I made for gsar to take care of this cases. I have no idea what is "different" with those, but surely a "text" comparison doesn't help, do a hex one instead. jaclaz

You may want to get "back to the basics", follow this: and report the EXACT errors/problems you find (if any). jaclaz