jaclaz

Well, no. IMHO most of the problems with existing builders is that they started (mostly) without a "plan" and were adapted/changed n times (or were NOT changed where needed), and this exactly because there was not a "model" of the elements and not much thinking of how to put elements together BEFORE actually starting putting them together. jaclaz

Ok. Than, before demand fuel, first of all invent a good engine. I would gladly, if I could. If a batch (no GUI) is OK for you or if you can live with the graphical limitations of a pseudoGUI such as WizApp: http://wizapp.sourceforge.net/ I could be game. If what you will provide is: It can be done in batch allright, it might not be the fastest build engine in the world, but it will work allright, and once the format for the 4 elements above has been established, we may find someone willing to write a "proper" program using the same "fuel". How will be the ""dependencies" (I mean cross dependencies) managed? (this is the issue around which I am revolving, creating an effecitve way of represent such dependencies in a database or something like that) jaclaz

This is what my half@§§ed batches did (obviously without a GUI, let alone a "nice" one). as allanf pointed out, to me the real problem is the "fuel", NOT the "engine". jaclaz

But windows backup will make "normal" .vhd files and NOT .wim ones, AFAIK. Question is seemingly about .wim images jaclaz

Yes, this is an issue, that I have also being talking about since years, but as I see it is "independant" from the actual builder. Yes, but I don't really see problems in the actual tool (one may be sllightly better than another, but not that much) rather I see a lot of "missing" knowledge or settings or the way the available knowledge is scattered around. As you might know I once put together in a weekend a (very limited and as always half-@§§ed) builder in batch for a very small project, the issue as I see it is not the actual builder but "all the rest". jaclaz

The interesting part would if you create junction points (symbolic links) to the stuff on the "other volume" inside the "main volume". What would happen? jaclaz

Not being a programmer, I cannot be of help, even if I wanted to. But I would like to understand what are these "builder requirements" or, if you prefer, before reinventing the wheel, in which way wheel 2.0 should be made "rounder"? jaclaz

Wait a minute, from what I remember in 9x there is winipcfg: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141698/en-us and there is NO IPCONFIG in 9x: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/183858/en-us jaclaz

Not only he doesn't understand, he also starts shouting! OBVIOUSLY, since it is potentially VERY dangerous code, I added a basic safeguard to avoid that some demented users would copy and paste it "as is" in the WRONG place (and delete everything in the subtree by mistake. The idea was to NOT allow someone that cannot even read two lines of batch to potentially make damages. Since OP asked help in writing a batch file and posted a non-working code that not only doesn't work but is is also evidently NOT following very basic batch or command line syntax, I assumed he was not at all familiar and thought that a safeguard would have been needed. jaclaz

Good to know Just in order to disambiguate 28 characters plus the square brackets, right? Like: [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ12] being valid and [ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123] being not. jaclaz

We must remember making an entry for this in the synonyms dictionary jaclaz

NO. This thread is ONLY (as in ONLY) for 7200.11. As CLEARLY stated n times in the thread AND in the READ-ME-FIRST (point #1): Please start a new thread about 7200.12 solution you found. This could be very useful, but a post or two inside this UNrelated "megathread" will get NOT the visibility it may deserve. jaclaz

Sure , it's actually "normal". The FILENAME (including path and surrounded by quotes if needed) of what you "drop" on a CMD file is actually parameter %1. Create this and save it as DROPONME.CMD: @ECHO OFF ECHO %1 PAUSE Drag and drop on it *any* file. jaclaz

I would like to point out how 3 or 4, as in : Music Video Backup etc are called here "a few" or "a handful" (and not as "many" or "lots"). As allways happens it is a matter of common sense and actually "intended use", besides "personal habits". And it depends on what type of backup solution you use. Defragging one "big" partition or "a few" smaller ones will take more or less the same time. Running chkdsk will make a difference (assuming that you run frist chkdsk and only if there are problems you run chkdsk /f or chkdsk /r). In case of filesystem corruption, only one filesystem will normally be corrupted (and not the whole "big" partition), and this may also help for recovery or restore chores. But you are both right, everyone has his own ways. jaclaz

If I may, using for the rest of the space a Partition ID WIndows 9x/Me does not know anything about, like NTFS or EXT2/3/4 should give the same result but if needed you have some storage space accessible by other OS's. jaclaz

I'll use it for you : WHAT (the HECK) is shiva? jaclaz

OT , but not much there is a MT port to NT/2K/XP (NOT 9x/Me, sorry) here: http://www.holistech.co.uk/mt.php I have no idea if "floppy connected" tapes drivers exist for the NT family after NT 3.5 or 4.0, though. If you are still looking for something, here: http://www.dreamlandbbs.com/drivers/tape/index.html is a good place to look for it . jaclaz

Those are "partitioning" features not "format" ones. You want a a "basic" disk. You want on the SSD to let Windows 7 install to choose for you (normally on an UNpartitioned before media it will create two primary partitions, one "protective", hidden 100 Mb in size, then a whole partition primary out of the rest of the 64gb). You want on the larger storage to create a small pèrimary partition (that can be useful in the future, should in the future this disk become a boot disk), let's say 5 to 10 Gb. Then create an Extended partition the rest of the size. Then create inside the Extended partition as many Logical Volumes as you see fit, as an example: Music Video Backup etc. The more logical volumes you make the easier will be to keep things "tidy" and it will also easen backup management. All volumes (no matter if Primary partitions or logical volumes should be formatted as NTFS, unless you have particular needs to acces them with an older OS that does not support NTFS). See also this: http://ericleite.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/understanding-primary-logical-extended-partitions/ jaclaz

This should do: @echo off SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS for /f "Tokens=*" %%A in ('dir /B /S /A:-D^|FIND /V "%~nx0"') do ECHO del /q "%%A" for /f "Tokens=*" %%A in ('dir /B /S /A:D') do ECHO rd /s /q "%%A" jaclaz

I am not worried. And what happens with Letter Assigner? Problem? WHAT problem? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072431/quotes?qt=qt0484668 jaclaz

Good. Glad to know I contributed to another happy bunny : jaclaz

I believe that if the routines are called tarty, the relevant page should be tarty http://fsymbols.com/generators/tarty/ and NOT carty , but "close enough" . EDIT: NO, you are right it's actually carty a classic example of re-used code . Is it a coincidence the member name "Vasansoft" with the string: jaclaz

Are you sure it is encoded? It looks pretty much as plain javascript UNICODE to me. (nothing "obfuscated" IMHO) Try to input some of the snippets here: http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/javaUnicode/converter.html Basically the posted code is an attempt to "draw BIG characters" with ASCII art-like UNICODE. jaclaz

Well, since you didn't mention "no Terabyte apps", you may want to try their MBR utility: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm or mbldr: http://mbldr.sourceforge.net/ or any other MBR based bootmanagers to have the option to have a recovery partition. "but failed" is not an accurate enough description of what happened (whatever it was). The posted suggestion has 5 steps, WHICH one failed? And HOW it failed? On MSFN we commonly use the convention of putting a small hook sign "?" at the end of a sentence to show how that sentence is a question, for which an answer is expected. jaclaz

Yep. jaclaz