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You are welcome (and deserve a place in the basket ): I try my best at it, thanks. jaclaz

Leave them alone. Mark ONLY the partition you want to undelete with L. Go back to the partition view, and it should contain the SAME partitions as in the Log you posted+the one you just marked. If it is so THEN write the new partition tables. Compare with point "Partition table recovery" in the given: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step In other words, BEFORE you WRITE you need to make sure that everything is EXACTLY as you wish it to be. If in doubt DO NOT write the partition tables. Until you hit the "write" and confirm with "y" everything is "virtual" and you can easily start again. jaclaz

Wait before doing something you may later regret. Data gathered needs to be analyzed BEFORE deciding WHAT to do (and doing it). The Log has this data: Analyse Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121601 255 63 Geometry from i386 MBR: head=255 sector=63 NTFS at 0/32/33 NTFS at 4171/87/13 NTFS at 82496/120/57 Current partition structure: 1 * HPFS - NTFS 0 32 33 4171 87 12 67010560 [Windows 7] 2 P HPFS - NTFS 4171 87 13 17225 129 56 209715200 [Ebooks n Pictures] 3 E extended LBA 82496 88 25 121601 25 24 628217856 5 L HPFS - NTFS 82496 120 57 108604 206 18 419430400 [Software Music n Gamez] The "deep scan" screenshot has found more partitions than the one(s) you apparently deleted. Can you couple the drive letters in your first post to the actual volume labels as found by testdisk? If you are positive that the drive was a logical volume inside Extended, mark it as Logical. From what you posted, it seems like the one you deleted is the one with label "[backup n Workshop]", which yes, it's a Logical drive inside Extended, but double check, see if you can see through testdisk the actual files that were in it before writing the partition table: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step jaclaz

Refer to this thread: Why it is so difficult? (No, don't reply it is a rhetorical question) jaclaz

Just for the record, the "calendar" in the Board Search "Find by date" only goes back to 2005, though it is possible to manually set back the date by correcting the year value entered in the text box, it would be nice if it could be made to start on 2001, jaclaz

I guess it's all about each app doing what it is supposed to do. RMPREPUSB is designed (and has quite a bit of tricks up it's little sleeves), to properly partition and format a USB stick and optionally install to it the grub4dos grldr.mbr to the MBR (and a few hidden sectors). Normally WinsetupfromUSBwithGUI can replace the normal 2K/XP MBR (written to the stick by RMPREPUSB or another utility) with the grldr.mbr. In some particular cases it cannot. This may due to a number of reasons, my guess is that it more or less it is a timing problem of some kind when accessing the \\.\PhysicalDrive (when running XP) or running Windows Vista or 7 that have *enhanced* (ahem) protection schemes. There could also be some hardware dependant causes, but I personally doubt it. The proposed solution/workaround is nothing but "common sense" , imagine that every time you would print a document you would: print a random different document erase completely the printed document re-use the blanked sheet of paper to finally print the "good" one jaclaz

If all you did was to delete the partitions on disk management, (or diskpart) you can probably get them back in a relatively easy manner. Get TESTDISK and run it (with a LOG file): http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk Take some time to read the documentation BEFORE running it. DO NOT write anything to the disk. Post the log after you have done a Search for lost partition AND a "deep scan". jaclaz

NO. Why people don't READ BEFORE asking over and over the same questions? FGA's<. Frequently Given Answers: It is friggin' FGA #1: 1. I have exactly the same HDD in my other computer. Will a PCB swap work? No. Although that used to work on some older models, in newer HDD's like the Seagate 7200.11, the PCB is specific to the drive and you risk frying both if you try that. Is there something difficult in the above? Read here: AND here: jaclaz

Welcome, au3fan . Why not adding something like "established since 200x (and still going strong...." ? Should be 2001, right? jaclaz

Topic pinned. jaclaz

BTW, and JFYI a pretty much interesting new approach to install XP from .iso on USB device has been developed (and is in an advanced testing phase): and: http://sites.google.com/site/rmprepusb/tutorials/install-xp-from-an-iso the "advantage" (if any) is that with this approach you can have a "vanilla" (or plainly slipstreamed to SP1, 2 or 3) XP .iso and have as many "F6 floppy" images as the different AHCI/SATA you need to install. From time to time it happens that someone posts about a company policy (or whatever) that seemingly does not allow a "modified .iso" and of course Commercial use of nlite is NOT allowed. The method of course need the setup to be attended. Many laptops do not have an option to set the internal SATA to "IDE emulation" mode, if those can, you can always post-install the SATA driver, an example is given here: jaclaz

With all due respect to everyone , "proof of a guess": I am sure that often this is part of or the whole issue , but "proof" has another meaning. :cheers: Wonko

Well, no. This is not "just to be safe", it is "unneededly" or "just for the fun of it", meaning that there is no - as you have been told by Ponch - known connection between the label (volume name or volume id) and bootability of the CD. There are quite a number of info on an original XP .iso or CD. If you run isoinfo -d on the actual original .iso (utility that is part of cdrecord tools, like mkisofs), you may get something similar to: CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format System id: Volume id: WXPFPP_IT Volume set id: WXPFPP_IT Publisher id: MICROSOFT CORPORATION Data preparer id: MICROSOFT CORPORATION, ONE MICROSOFT WAY, REDMOND WA 98052, (425) 882-8080 Application id: CDIMAGE 2.46 (10/12/2000 TM) Copyright File id: Abstract File id: Bibliographic File id: Volume set size is: 1 Volume set seqence number is: 1 Logical block size is: 2048 Volume size is: 261167 NO Joliet present NO Rock Ridge present The Volume id or Volume set id, as well a Data preparer id and Applicaiton id are NOT connected in ANY way with booting. jaclaz

Not at all "stupid", simply you panicked (and didn't follow the advice given in the read-me-first #14 ): I guess I can count you as another happy bunny in the basket : jaclaz

Which is fundamentally this one: with a nice spin-off/addition detailing the use of a multiple-driver F6 floppy for adding the AHCI drivers The "making of" is here: http://reboot.pro/13912/ jaclaz

Of course NOT , all the work that was done to make it possible was in order to have people have a LESS convenient way to install their XP. Approximated average(1) CD read throughput: 6 Mb/s Approximated average(1) USB 1.1 device read throughput: 1 Mb/s <- not a wise idea to choose USB install if you have USB 1.1 only controllers on the motherboard Approximated average(1) USB 2.0 memory stick read throughput: 12 Mb/s Approximated average(1) USB 2.0 HD throughput: 24 Mb/s In the future (or if you are a rich guy and can afford it now): Approximated average(1) USB 3.0 device read throughput: 60 Mb/s? Draw your own conclusions. Note(1): "Approximated average speed" calculated using "common sense" and not at all representative of the actual results you may have on any particular combination of hardware, data meant only as a comparative, simplified example jaclaz

Describe EXACTLY WHAT you have done like commands issued, Operating System you were using (if I get it right that you formatted form an OS) or describe EXACTLY what you have done and the EXACT error messages/whatever you got. No matter how desperate you are, it's pretty much binary, either it is possible or it is not (sorry ) it depends on what you did EXACTLY. Review this: http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html NO. jaclaz

I can get to the page allright: http://www.anthologymarketing.com/microsoft/deployment/virtualization_cert/virtcert_landingpage_r02.html http://www.anthologymarketing.com/microsoft/deployment/virtualization_cert/virtcert_landingpage_r02.html from Italy. The reason must be something else. Forget the above, I see, I too land to: http://www.prometric.com/error.htm http://www.prometric.com/error.htm when clicking "Register", instead of: http://www.prometric.com/Microsoft/virtualization http://www.prometric.com/Microsoft/virtualization There is a page I can get to here: http://www.prometric.com/Microsoft/default.htm http://www.prometric.com/Microsoft/default.htm But I seem like not finding anything connected to "virtualization". jaclaz

http://www.legroom.net/ It seemingly happened again. Everything is cool again, now: http://www.legroom.net/software/uniextract Installer: http://www.legroom.net/scripts/download.php?file=uniextract161 Binaries/Portable (No installer) http://www.legroom.net/scripts/download.php?file=uniextract161_noinst jaclaz

Look, that auto-built thingy you posted a photo of is a RS-232 to TTL adapter. WHAT you connect it to? As in EITHER: a RS-232 (COM port) interface physically soldered to your PC's motherboard a USB to RS-232 cable adapter/coverter You may understand that: OS->COM driver (ALREADY on your system)->COM (RS-232) port->your converter->TTL OS->USB generic drivers (ALREADY on your system)->specific USB to RS-232 converter cable driver->COM driver (ALREADY on your system)->Virtual COM (RS-232) port->your converter->TTL in the first case you need NO particular driver installed, in the second case, you need one. You READ how to do it? OK, my bad, I gave you a reference to #6 while it was #8 (corrected previous post), but finding it shouldn't have been that difficult , and you should know the read-me-first by heart, by now. jaclaz

A Server 2003 install source did have a \I386\ folder last time I checked one. You are not looking to an installed system (as opposed to the install media CD or a copy of it's contents) right? jaclaz

But to WHAT is it connected? If to a serial port on your mainboard, you need NOT any driver but the standard Windows ones. You can (and should) performa loopback test to the actual serial port, before. Check links in point #6 #8 of the read-me-first: jaclaz

It is peculiar. A "normal" XP install disk has an "XP" bootsector that loads SETUPLDR.BIN in \I386\. <- this is hardcoded and cannot be longer than four characters. Yours uses evidently a "Vista" or 7 bootsector that loads BOOTMGR in ROOT of the CD. There may be several other ways to make a bootable CD out of it, like using grub4dos or isolinux or BCDW as "bootmanagers" and leave BOOTMGR the role of OS loader. jaclaz

You created an "outline structure". Simply select the whole sheet (top left "square" beween "1" and "A") and "promote" or "ungroup" everything until you have no more a structure. Data->Group Outline http://www.wikihow.com/Group-and-Outline-Excel-Data http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/remove-an-outline-HP005202031.aspx jaclaz

Yep, it should be it. JFYI, Uniextract extracts it allright. And it runs on XP 32 bit from the extracted folder. jaclaz