jaclaz

I guess it will remain unclear , as your further questions means that it took you all of 30 seconds to NOT read what is already posted on this thread, the given links and the contents of SETUP.CMD. AGAIN, the .iso is UNTOUCHED. There is NO substitution of ANYTHING in the .iso. IMDISK is NOT a miniport driver (usable for booting), Firadisk (as well as WinVblock) are. The Windows 7 install is completely different. What "these guys" (actually cdob) accomplished is a way to install from an UNmodified .iso residing on a HD, he did an exceptionally good work in putting together "loose ends" here and there and in writing a working batch with a number of features. The topic is not "so lengthy" as I see it. Compare with these: Anyway now it's two post longer. You may be interested in this (unrelated, but not much): As I see it, you have two choices before you: try one of the given method "as-is" take your time and learn, building the needed background to understand how they work Have I mentioned that this method uses a DEFAULT, UNMODIFIED, UNTOUCHED .iso? jaclaz

That screenshot says that grub4dos grldr.mbr attempted finding grldr in: first hard disk (hd0) : only 1 primary partition : (hd0,0) second hard disk (hd1): (1 primary (hd1,0) and 1 Logical Volume inside Extended (hd1,4) and could not find it. The second disk (hd1) is the internal one and there isn't actually a grldr in it, right? In the relevant part of the "report": Which one is the USB HDD? If E: it means that there might have been a misunderstanding till now. grub4dos right now WILL NOT work with some BIOSes on partitions bigger than the LBA28 limit because the BIOS (in the USB part only) does not support LBA48. It is not a "fault" of grub4dos, simply the BIOS sends it some "incorrect" data You need to have a partition BELOW that limit, otherwise, each time you will find one of these BIOS you will have this same problem. jaclaz

You are right , they don't : I thought you were asking about the need of firadisk (or other driver). In other words they were an answer to a slightly different question. But also the question wasn't posed correctly, the .iso is NOT modified in this method, as in: In other words, this method is about using an UNmodified .iso, and the reason why second part of the setup will fail is that normally you won't have any driver connected to the CD-ROM device, so it won't BSOD, but you (actually SETUP) won't be able to access the .iso. There is a link in cdob's original post (currently invalid due to the board update) about the drivers from CD method: page__view__findpost__p__159358 The idea is to trick the install into running the fake SETUP.EXE to run SETUP.CMD before the real SETUP.EXE. You need to read the SETUP.CMD to understand what it does (basically it checks drive lettering and mounts the .iso with IMDISK) In other words, this method: mount the .iso with IMDISK run SETUP.EXE find files into .iso Normal (NOT working) : run SETUP.EXE NOT find files into .iso (as .iso is not accessible/mounted) Hope now it answers your question. jaclaz

I do understand what you want would like to achieve, rest assured. Whether this is possible or not depends on how your BIOS works. Since I have not a Toshiba Tecra M10 before me, I have no way to know what is in it's BIOS and which feature and which hot keys it sports unless you tell me. The proposed test was a way, if you describe the features of your BIOS, hot-keys, etc. it will be the same. jaclaz

NO. BUT, you may need/want to read this: http://reboot.pro/8944/ and this ONLY seemingly unrelated thread: http://reboot.pro/4952/ (for what you are asking XP install or a PE 1.x may be interchanged) jaclaz

What do you think this is? http://sites.google.com/site/rmprepusb/tutorials/multi_boot-wim jaclaz

Supa http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=supa I don't think that there is any related Sura http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sura Yes, I'm Sure. jaclaz

It shouldn't be a problem IF the BIOS supports e-sata booting. Which options do you have in BIOS? Try the following: get grub4dos (latest experimental version) from here: http://code.google.com/p/grub4dos-chenall/downloads/list from the downloaded package extract only grldr and copy it to root of the active partition of your internal HD (I presume C:\ ), i.e. where NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and BOOT..INI are. edit BOOT.INI like here: http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/install_windows.htm#windows1 adding the line to it. Try booting without the external HD connected. Choose the grub4dos entry. At the command prompt type: root (h and press [TAB] key you should get something like: possible disks are : hd0 Switch PC off. Attach the e-sata HD and repeat the above, if you get: possible disks are : hd0 hd1 it means that the e-sata is enumerated by BIOS and you have good chances. jaclaz

We better get Outa here ... http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/outa jaclaz

Actually when in a dual boot one of the two items doesn't boot, "everything" is not OK, maybe "50%" is OK . AGAIN, there is NO SUCH thing as "A BLUE SCREEN ERROR" there is an uniquely identified BSOD with a given STOP ERROR number. Are you sure you are having the SAME 0x0000007b error you had with XP? : and not (for example) a 0xc000000e http://reboot.pro/13528/page__st__4 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19439&st=0&p=137270entry137270 jaclaz

Yet another happy (non-reading-FAQ's ) bunny in the basket : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128727&st=10 jaclaz

BTW the name of the ATV comes from the name of the animal, Puma is in italian (and in Spanish) "cougar" or "mountain lion". (and also it's scientific name, Puma concolor) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cougar Let's only NOT use the letter T in the middle and Spanish. let's go on with Yuma jaclaz

Living dangerously Cuma http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuma jaclaz

Naah , duplicated : jaclaz

Ha! but anyway that is still far, I can have before your M and O, Hums (surely good): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hum or as third person of to hum: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/hum and Lums: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lum's maybe invalid jaclaz

Should not Dums (as in dum dums) be acceptable, I guess we better stop at Gums.... then jaclaz

Sums Beware of the results when using letters B and C. (I guess we need to jump to R ) Rums jaclaz

And another happy bunny goes in the basket ! jaclaz

Good. So you have a "fixed", "better" version of: for %%* in (.) do echo %%~n* consisting of: for %%A in ("%~dp0.") do echo %%~nA I see it as a "longer" version (even if by a few characters). jaclaz

If you mean CAB compressed files (as typical in Windows NT based install CD's), of course you can. There is a command EXPAND: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/expand.mspx?mfr=true will expand the file to "mycabbed.dll" jaclaz

Sure , only this needs NOT a serious measurement. You only need to find the + 5V. You can do that even with a bycicle (6 V) lamp, or with *anything* low power enough, 5 volts compatible, you just connect one wire to the whatever to any black (or 0V) cable you find, then touch one by one the pins until it lights up or whatever. The actual GND is always at the "other end" of the connector, with the only exception of the 5+3 pin setup (actually rare, never seen one personally ): http://frontx.com/cpx108_2.html http://frontx.com/cpx101_2.html jaclaz

Have you tried inverting the Tx and RX? (just to make sure, you didn't mention this) jaclaz

Hmm. Try running your batch in a folder in a path with spaces. Then try running Yzöwl's original one, or, if you prefer, run this: @ECHO OFF for %%A in (%~dp0.) do echo %%~nA for %%* in (.) do @echo %%~n* Any difference? Welcome to the board. jaclaz

Well, I don't know WHAT/HOW you used it, but a hard disk NEEDS a MBR (and needs at least one partition, formatted with a filesystem on which to store grldr). In other words, you create a "normal" hard disk with disk management, (or fdisk or whatever), and then you install (if you want) the grub4dos MBR (+hidden sectors) code and copy the grldr to the filesystem. jaclaz

Wait until you have the brackets. Connect them at random . Test the voltage on the USB female on the bracket. (much easier then doing it on the motherboard, inside the case and with the processor fan lowing in your ears ) They are standard http://ptm2.cc.utu.fi/~ptmusta/kuvat/Computers/Technics/PC_kort_braketter.pdf ...but you were accurate enough , since they measure (as seen from the outside) 4.44" jaclaz