jaclaz

That must be some kind of "peculiar" controller driver that "adds" that listing things, I don't seem to remember ever seeing something like what you describe. The general idea is quite easy. If you set in BIOS the SATA device as "IDE emulation" or "ATA emulation", the BIOS will "tell" Windows that there is an IDE controller (and one or more devices attached to it) connected to the motherboard and uses the "generic" IDE driver. (with a given PCI\VEN&DEV #) If you set in BIOS the SATA device as "SATA" or "AHCI", the BIOS will "tell" Windows that there is a SATA controller (and one or more devices attached to it) connected to the motherboard and uses the "specific chipset" SATA/AHCI driver.(with another given PCI\VEN&DEV #) Point is, if you are in another situation, i.e. you add a PCI card with a SATA controller on it to a "normal" IDE installed XP, what happens? You simply add the driver in the booted XP and next time you boot it will be loaded automatically. The "trick" is simply that of installing the "specific" SATA/AHCI driver whilst the device is NOT connected (since it is booted with IDE/ATA emulation) AND make sure the driver has the right "group" and "start type" to be able to load at next boot. Problem is, or might be, some controllers that use the SAME PCI\VEN. Another possible option (again to be checked for the specific setup) is to install UNIATA: http://alter.org.ua/soft/win/uni_ata/ and then "switch" to the "proper" driver. As always happens with this kind of things, your actual mileage may vary. jaclaz

Maybe easier : http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/Associate/index.html What happens if INSTEAD of double clicking you right click on the file ? (it is possible that besides the "association", the "default action for the MHTML type of file has become "Edit" or anyway some action different from "Open with", that triggers Notepad instead of IE) jaclaz.

Works as before. I don't get the sense of your answer. I can assure you that links on the board have some time ago changed their syntax, as my converter that used to work with most of the various "old" syntaxes started again "missing" some links. Right now (for whatever reasons) the buttons like "bold", "italic", "understrike" are not working. The Search module has not any more the preference (needed as I see it) to ask for "view results as threads" and "view results as posts". So I would assume that the transition (or whatever) has not been completed yet. I am only asking IF, WHEN the board will have a "stable" configuration, this can be stated officially, as there is little sense in adapting things to deal with settings that are going to soon change again. jaclaz

Too bad. I missed them. ( I like threats, even better than tricks ) jaclaz

I beg to disagree, BOTH on the actual statement and on the philosophical comment. http://alter.org.ua/soft/win/uni_ata/ You can always install the "real" SATA drivers AFTER install. See also here: jaclaz

Three people in a row that COMPLETELY FAILED to read BOTH the read-me-first AND the FGA's: Lupi iaconelli12 lewisspearing Since lewisspearing solved his problem (after having tried almost any of the "wrong" approaches available), only two little indians remain: Lupi iaconelli12 Please, please, PLEASE, DO READ these: BEFORE asking the same, SAME, SAME, SAME, ALREADY ASKED n times questions. Particularly @Lupi , do you really think that IF serial mices had a rs-232 to TTL converter capable of 38400 b/s: we wouldn't ALREADY have serial mices among the possible source for the thingy the serial for the mouse would have been set at 1200 b/s? If you want, you can also try: an AC/DC converter from your old Valve Radio a data cable from your old PSION direct connetion to mains (either 110 or 220 V Ac will do ) Comeon, READ the actual specs, you can build your own and in the thread there are several different schematics, but you want a RS-232 to TTL converter (or a USB to TTL converter AND NOT *anything* that comes with a DB9 or *anything* that crosses your mind or *anything* "random" that you happen to have lying around) Particularly @iaconelli12, do you really think that IF a PCB swap was possible we wouldn't already have it listed among the possible ways. BTW exactly one post above yours it is clearly written how PCB swapping, beside NOT working may also break the hard disk(s) for good. Please also note how at the top of this page there is a nice message saying: Is there a particularly difficult part in the above that you have problems understanding? jaclaz

As well as from the http link in the given reference thread: http://thedailyreviewer.com/computing/view/defrag-status-104442191 http://wittswallpapers.com/Oldies/crackup.zip jaclaz

Latest is tinybit grub4dos-0.4.5b-2010-11-04.zip or chenall grub4dos-0.4.5b-2010-11-18-fix.zip Current is grub4dos-0.4.4-2009-10-16.zip jaclaz

Last time I checked an ORIGINAL PC-3000 (from Ace labs, NOT a cheaper Chinese "clone") retailed for around US$ 3,000.00. The half @§§ed Chinese copies that usually come with obsolete software and NO support, should be available fo less than US$ 1,000.00. It's simply not worth it. A lot of firms will unlock your drive for fifty bucks or so, but the drive itself (since you don't care about the DATA) is worth maybe 20 US$. jaclaz

I'll just throw this one on the table, and see if anyone finds it of use: http://web.archive.org/web/20020203213518/http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/17/19/ut1719.001.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010814222127/www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/17/19/ut1719.002.html http://web.archive.org/web/20011104234347/www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/17/19/ut1719.003.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010814224059/www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/17/19/ut1719.004.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010417145818/www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/17/19/ut1719.005.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010417150504/www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/17/19/ut1719.006.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010417151309/www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/17/19/ut1719.007.html http://web.archive.org/web/20010420173410/hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?b=pcm&fcode=000UYR Actual file needs a bit of googling. http://thedailyreviewer.com/computing/view/defrag-status-104442191 jaclaz

@jds Yep, we are saying the same thing, only a dfferent one. I am saying that probably the instsec.dll is triggered by ANY of the three mentioned .dll's. You are saying that it is triggered by "rsaenh.dll" ONLY. But actually you tried "rsaenh.dll" ONLY. I mean, we have no evidence that if INSTEAD of "rsaenh.dll", you had tried with "rsaenhs.dll" ONLY (OR with "schannel.dll" ONLY) you wouldn't have had the same result. "Final" statement should be: jaclaz

The HDDerase aka secureerase here: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml right? Yes, you need to know the password for it. So, it is definitely an ATA password, right? If it is, you may need a Commercial program, like: http://www.hddunlock.com/ Or a professional tool like: http://www.hdd-tools.com/products/rrs/ (examples) or PC3000 and the likes. I don't know of any "free" method. jaclaz

About deepfreeze, I have used it some years ago, it seemed to be working all right, though I vaguely remember that a few times , most probably due to users being smarter than what the Faronics guys (or myself ) were expecting, it crashed, and when it did (as said in RARE occasions), it did crash badly. I would say it is a handy solution for shared computers, like a lab or an internet point, but I personally prefer the more traditional approach of anti-virus, etc. as while the system is NOT reset, anything could spread nonetheless to the newtwork. All in all I would say a good app, for a limited, targeted number of uses. jaclaz

@Xntryk1 I guess you are missing the point of my previous post. The idea is that if you think that something is "new technology", you check if it is BEFORE posting the "news" on a place where the technology is re-known since years. Like: http://tinyurl.com/2b823s7 This way you avoid giving the impression of being a spammer AND you look a lot less like a n00b. Since MSFN is (rightfully) very strongly oriented AGAINST SPAM and SPAMMERS, you risked being banned (while being in perfect good faith), In this particular case, had you not also posted the other two (IMHO senseless) posts I cited, you REALLY risked it. Anyway, if you re-read the mentioned posts, one of which needlessly bumping a two years old thread, can you explain to me which contribution to the Community was intended in them? The first one does NOT help in any way to solve the OP problem, the second only tells us that you are not familiar with Linux and that you are frustrated by this (something that I personally rate as having very little relevance to other members), The friendly advice is to post meaningful things in the future and think before posting, that's all. jaclaz

From the "quick and dirty" suggestion I made (check instsec.dll with bintext or similar), the ONLY lines containg "dll" are: So, all three dll's are somehow "queried" or "checked": rsaenhs.dll rsaenh.dll schannel.dll it is very possible that one only is enough to "trigger" the patching, though the order in which they are listed seem to suggest that the "first one" is rsaenhs.dll. jaclaz

Use grub4dos mapping features to map a floppy image to RAM (if only needed during TXTSETUP part - real mode), add Firadisk driver if access to the floppy is also needed in the GUI part (protected mode). Read this seemingly unrelated thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=137714 And this one: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20543 jaclaz

Maybe not , of his 4 posts two seem like spam for DeepFreeze - and I dont think that Faronics needs spammers - their product is re-known since years (by everyone, exception made, apparently, for Xntryk1) the other two seem more like the kind: "I have nothing better to do than to post some vague information I am not sure about" or: "I am seriously confused and think that MSFN is my Blog or anyway a place to express my disappointment on how really DIFFICULT using Linux is" jaclaz

NEW? DeepFreeze is out since AT LEAST year 2000: http://web.archive.org/web/20000303162814/http://www.faronics.com/ jaclaz

Q.E.D. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q.E.D. jaclaz

ATAPWD and similar software ONLY work when disk is connected "natively" through a ATA interface, with NO adapter/converter in the middle. They "talk" to the disk drive at a "lower level" which is NOT implememented in USB drivers/controllers. Mind you that if the "X41" is a IBM/Lenovo laptop, it is very possible that you are hitting against the laptop in-buiit password (and not the ATA disk one). As always to give you ANY further help, we need DATA, and DETAILS, make/model of disk/PC/whatever hardware involved, we are not (yet ) mind readers. jaclaz

JFYI (and cannot say of it works on 7 or on PE 3.x ), this is a "better" way: http://www.roggel.com/NGNeer/BackgroundCMD/index.shtml jaclaz

It doesn't work like this. SAME Make, SAME model may have a different controller. You use ChipGenius to determine the controller and see if it's one of the two supposedly "covered" by the Lexar utility. Mind you that it is also well possible that on a "covered" chip the actual Mass Production Tool has been configured to prevent flipping the bit with the "higher level" Lexar tool. OR you find the "right" manufacurer tool for the actual controller. Some reference is here : http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21850 (and NO the idea of the Lexar boot-it database is not new , it simply won't work) More here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10534 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=12556 jaclaz

Well, this doesn't apply for the mentioned example site, from their Terms & Conditions: You are GUARANTEED you won't ever get ANYTHING on paper or on actual CD media, and that the software CANNOT be registered online (due to certain limitations ). jaclaz

Just for the record, things like the "freeze" trick and the "knock on hard disk" one are MOSTLY legends. The MOSTLY means NOT that they are completely void of any validity, but they are VERY unlike to be of ANY use. The mistake many people do is to assume that a miracle-cure-for-all-diseases exists. The cure should be targeted to the disease. Aspirin is very good cure for flu, it isn't for lung cancer, unfortunately. A clicking sound could be due to a number of reasons. IF the clicking is due to a miscalibration, THEN IF the miscalibration is due to permanent mechanical misalignment THEN IF the particular hard disk model uses a "pattern" on a platter to re-calibrate, THEN IF the misalignment is so small that it is within the VERY SMALL thermal contraction effects THEN IF the other board components can bear a very low temperature THEN IF you have the capability to freeze PROPERLY (WITHOUT creating humidity/dump to the circuits) THEN IF you are lucky, you may be able to revive the drive for a very short period (minutes) at each freezing cycle, with anyway a decreasing probability of success after each cycle which is of great stress for the components. If you assume that you have a 50% chance of success at each IF above, and another 50% for the "may" you will have a reasonable approximation of chances of success at 0.78% (for the first cycle) you should get an idea of the practical usefulness of this approach. Of course, if you have NOTHING to loose, it is as good an attempt as any other, you may be lucky and win the lottery ticket, after all. jaclaz

Again, the problem is with El-Torito standards. There are three of them: El-Torito floppy emulation (ONLY accepts floppy images, and ONLY 1.2, 1.55 and 2.88 in size) El-Torito no-emulation El-Torito hard disk emulation (ONLY accepts HD images) Whether a motherboard BIOS would actually support booting from all of them is debatable, #1 is the usual "DOS" way, #2 is the usual MS WIndown NT way, so they are largely supported. #3 is the less used and may fail in BIOS (but this can be normally overcome by good ol' BCDL), see here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3890&st=9 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3890&st=46 AND there is always the hybrid CD methods. See here for some reference: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9916&hl= IOMEGA ZIP formats is another problem, there are actually TWO of them, HD-like and "superfloppy". See here for some reference: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=12436&hl= I cannot see why it shouldn't be possible to burn a HD-like ZIP as HD-emulation CD. Using superfloppies needs to be tested AFAIK. (unless the rloew tool is available) jaclaz