jaclaz

I will repeat myself: I have physically seen myself a line of production for floppies that worked as above stated. I don't think that the manager of the factory rearranged the facility expecially the day I visited it in order to hide some manufacture secret. So, to be more exact, I have reasons (direct experience) to affirm that at least one factory in the world in a period approximately between 1994 and 1995 used the SAME magnetic media on both the 720 and the 1440 diskettes. Apart from the above, that may have been a black swan of some kind , and due to the fact that the period in which I have visited the factory was towards the end of the actual common use of the 720 floppies, and thus some "shortcuts" may have been used by the manufacturer, please read this: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/guzis.html As you can see, the results in real life are controversial, and we have both a statement like: http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/Disk/Densities And one like: http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/guzis.html My personal experience is actually similar with the last quoted statement but I guess that there is also a factor connected to the actual hardware (floppy disk drive maker/model). jaclaz

You may want to read (to get some ideas/suggestions) these (AND given links in them): The described approach has always worked (though it is a PITA ). Here is a relatively recent thread with a lot of the gory details: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24161&hl= jaclaz

You can try using nircmd: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html but it probably won't work. The "real" solution (provided that when in a window the app "behaves") would be to set the actual Windows to "full screen". There isn't AFAIK/AFAICR a freeware solution, but since I presume you can spend a few bucks, you may find these handy: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/dosfon_e.html They are a set of characters that are the "right size" to allow extending a console windows to "full screen". Cannot say if there will be problem with the "local alphabet letters" you mentioned. jaclaz

A "pure" DSL line should be at a much lower voltage, something around 5 V , but without a DSL modem connected, this may drop to something like or 3 Volts. (it greatlòy depends on the actual standard used and on the actual hardware is on the "other side" of the DSL line. The "non connected side" will anyway be at 0 V. jaclaz

If you get the message you posted you do have *somewhere* a NTLDR+NTDETECT.COM+BOOT.INI. The contents of BOOT.INI are needed to understand if there has been *somehow* a "shift" in partition numbering (and consequently in ARCPATH). The message could also be related to drivers (that you have installed in the VM) that are (obviously) not capable of reading/accessing the disk on the "real" machine, but that should have produced a BSOD 0x0000007b. You might need to re-generalize the image or however check the Registry to see if the "right"drivers are installed and/or if the /MountedDevices key has remnants referring to an old disk signature or different LBA start of the partition. Also it is possible that besides partition order also (still *somehow*) disk order has been changed. jaclaz

Sure you can, with no actual perceivable difference in reliability. This is what all the users of midi keyboards (with 720 Kb floppy disk drives) have been doing in the last, say, 10 years: format the 1440 disk as 720 Kb in a PC floppy disk drive (covering second hole with tape) usethem on the keyboard There is no actual difference in the internals of a floppy disk (at least between the 720 and the 1440) and I know for sure that for at least a short period around 1994/1995 ONLY 1440 floppies were produced and they were "packed" into either a "single hole" plastic case (720 Kb) or in a "two hole" one (1440 Kb). jaclaz

You mean serial port+proper TTL adapter, I hope? jaclaz

I haven't even checked the posted code, but there is a trick to embed diskpart commands inside a batch, check this thread here: jaclaz

Yep but users (you ) may provide a link to the EXACT page where they found the cited info. The info seemingly comes from here: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/organization/twomonitors.aspx and is accomapnied by a screenshot of the actual windows you should have before you, where a button labeled "Identify" should be present. The button is also (barely) visible in screenshot posted on the mentioned page. (there are actually TWO buttns on the top right, one "Detect" and one "Identify") in the context seem to me clear enough. So, what is the problem? jaclaz

Yes, but we have to test if it works with RAID Highpoint whatever (or have you the same kind of card?) Thanks , but be aware that this may sound as an "argumentum ad verecundiam" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority jaclaz

But was that test with a CD (media) in the drive? Also try using "my" version: at least when testing manually, this would work (normally, NOT necessarily in your case) also with a non-bootable CD in the CD drive. jaclaz

Well, no there might be a misunderstanding. The whole sequence you have to tell grub4dos can be (like Ponch originally posted): cdrom --init map --hook chainloader (cd0) rootnoverify (cd0) boot or the slightly different I posted: cdrom --init map --hook roor (cd0) chainloader boot When you boot you need to input EACH of the above lines (pressing [ENTER] at each one), maybe this is what the misunderstanding was about. You don't need to re-do the cdrom --init in the SAME " seesion" but you need to re-do it if you reboot. Once the sequence works, as Ponch originally suggested, you put it in a menu.lst entry and you just choose that entry at boot time. jaclaz

Yep , but the point is WHY cables should be as straight as possible. :whistling: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21827&st=23 jaclaz

But won't my old HDD still technically be the D drive? That will mess up all my settings and installed programs, as they are set up for drive C. Not necessarily. Besides using grub4dos for exchanging disks (which should be enough in itself) you may want to try using Letter assigner: jaclaz

No need to. If while you are fiddling with them someone calls, you would learn about the 100 V + ring voltage, only the hard way . jaclaz

I would be curious to know what a program called "keygen.exe" , when used in conjunction with the Stardock ObjectDock installer, is supposed to do. jaclaz

Chip is seemingly MTX208 Vid 1221 Pid 3234 You will need to start trying tools you can find here: http://flashboot.ru/index.php?name=Files&op=cat&id=14 (you may want to use google translate on the above) Chipgenius is not necessarily "exact" and the docs on these utilities are normally VERY scarce. I would try first with this one: http://flashboot.ru/Files-file-304.html jaclaz

Because that poor disk drive developed a defect and later torture was used on it? Who knows? The idea is to try and see. Remember that "something" is NOT "everything", and that when attempting recovering data form a failed drive sometimes you win and sometimes you loose. jaclaz

You were given some. You seemingly did NOT follow them: Here is a nice representation of your HD heads banging against a large chunk of bad sectors: jaclaz

Protects WHAT from WHAT? An UPS will normally do three different kind of "protection": keep the voltage at the same level in case of line peaks (generated by the mains supplier end, typically transient peaks up to 400 V) mantain power in case of voltage too low and/or power completely missing (for a given limited amount of time) filter high voltage peaks (lightning striking the power line) <-this has lmits and depends on the actual model and on a number of other factors* Some will have as a "side feature" the decoupling of data lines (telephone, fax, DSL, etc.). Good as it may be an UPS, the hardware ANYWAY gets a (very short in time) "shock" when the thingy "switches". As always happen there are good UPS's and bad ones as well as good hardware and bad hardware. An UPS generates a "fake" sinusoidal AC wave converting CC from the battery, usually a "squarewave" read (example): http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ocz-ups-battery-backup,7489.html Google for "pure sine wave". *there is something (RARE) that cannot actully AFAIK be "protected" efficiently and reliably which is the event in which a lightning strikes near you building and (wet ground and what not) raises (temporarily) the "ground" potential. When this happens, the ground which is normally and by definition @ 0V may raise (for a relatively long period, seconds, not milliseconds) to a much higher voltage, sometimes enough to fry grounded low-voltage devices The moral is always the same , use as good hardware as you can afford, protect as accurately and effectively as you can both your hardware and data, but for the latter, ANYWAY, implement the Three Golden Rules: jaclaz

Sure. But you need to disconnect the wires. You are in a situation like: ----*----- ----*----- Where the left side lines or dot are (for the sake of the example) the phone line coming in and the right side ones are the line going to a "next" phone socket (the * being the actual "first" phone socket) You have to disconnect the wires on one side of the socket, like: ----* ---- ----* ----- and measure with a multimeter the Voltage on botth the wires still connected to the socket and on the the ones that were disconnected. Use ~ (Alternate Current) and a relatively HIGH Voltage setting on the multimeter, it depend on countries and standard (and actual REN number and what not) but a common telephone line may well be at around 48 V and when ringing well above 100 V. jaclaz

Yep , but in this case (since the thing producing the piped text is a batch and it's output is already an Environment Variable) only. I thought it would have been useful the posted trick as a solution to the "generic" problem "my batch won't accept piped input" . @edisonx Please do READ my previous post. You can pipe the output of your small program into a batch (if needed). More generally you use a FOR loop like: FOR /F "tokens=* delims=" %%A in ('pow.exe 1.23 4.56') DO SET myvar=%%A jaclaz

Not really-really. There are tricks : http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/readline_2k.txt essentially: ::pipetome.cmd ::A batch capable of accepting PIPE input @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS FOR /F "tokens=*" %%A IN ('MORE') DO SET Got_From_Pipe=%%A SET Got_From_Pipe jaclaz

Traditionally you use graphite powder to lubricate the tape cartridge innards. It can be bought as graphite powder, but all you need is one of those large mechanicl pencil leads, and a piece of fine sandpaper. (it is sub-otimal as there is clay in them together with graphite, but it is usually good enough) jaclaz

HEy, peeps, comeon... Was it not enough having (thanks heaven only briefly) exported the boot-land flamewar to 911CD? Do we really need to have here a justificatiion for it coming from another at Gena ? Will this nonsense ever end? jaclaz