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

As said, it is NOTused unmodified (i.e. renamed) During install it (or something else triggered by it) patches the actual SECUR32.DLL Just have a look at instsec and to secur32 dll's with bintext or a similar text extractor: http://www.foundstone.com/us/resources/proddesc/bintext.htm jaclaz

NO. The clicking noise should mean that the drive is dead. You may try the given BSY and LBA0 fix, in the hope that being substantially a "reset" of the disk, they help, but I doubt it. To repair a "simple" click problem you need specific tools (around US $ 3.000 lat time I checked) and quite a bit of knowledge (at least a couple courses to use the tools) . If it cannot be resolved WITHOUT opening the disk, you need several more thousands bucks of tools and a several years knowledge and practice (which definitely you cannot "buy" or get in a small time) Clicking noise can be due to almost *anything*. The good news are that attempting the BSY "fix" won't probably do any further damage, the bad news are that if there is a mechanical problem and the heads are actually hitting a platter, every second the drive is ON a little bit of data may be lost forever. jaclaz

NO. jaclaz

Now that you have confirmed that the "trick" is inside dsclient.exe, I presume the same EXACT file here 5.0.2920.5: ftp://ftp.catalyst.com/pub/cstools/support/dsclient.exe And what happens with the one here 5.0.2920.0: http://www.xlightftpd.com/faq.htm http://www.xlightftpd.com/download/Dsclient.exe Check the "instsec.dll" properties (remember that on NT systems SECUR32.DLL was called SECURITY.DLL., and as usual in the MS world the internal name of SECUR32.DLL is still SECURITY.DLL IF it's that, the SAME "instsec.dll" file is also inside dsclient9x.msi (but other files are changed, particularly in the .msi SECUR32.DLL is 4.10.0.226 whilst in the .exe it is 4.10.0.228) jaclaz

Nice photoshop job on your Windows 7! jaclaz

It does sond a lot like the PSU. HOW did you test it? jaclaz

Yes, but if you can use a 2.88 El-torito floppy emulation boot image as dencorso suggested, you don't need to access the "CD/DVD" part at all. If the BIOS supports the device as bootable, it will work. As well "my" "no limits" suggestion with memory mapping should work on most hardware (provided that BIOS correctly detects it). There is even a "third" - still "no limits" way - using hard disk emulation at the CD, but a lot of oldish machines may have probelms with this kind of El-Torito emulation (and a few newish ones too). For SATA you need gcdrom.sys: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18722 Still active site: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdromdosdrv/ @Multibooter Yes, the 2.88 US the limit of the El-torito specifications, anything "bigger" goes as "Hard disk emulation". And as suggested n times by now, both MagicISO and Nero are not the best choices available (mkisofs and imgburn are), with the first ones you don't really know WHAT they do, whilst with the second ones you have total control. jaclaz

.... so be nice and READ also FGA's #1, #2, #3, #5 AND #6, and ALL points of the read-me-first (from 1 to 15) BEFORE posting again a SAME question ALREADY replied to n times. jaclaz

I disagree . And I disagree totally. Right now the best choice is to create a .ima or .img and use grub4dos (or memdisk) to map them to memory and have no "CD-like" device (and the need for MSCDEX or SHSUCDX). EXPECIALLY if the program/whatever needs (or would be convenient to have) R/W access to the device. I do presume that actual PC used do have enough RAM (me thinks 8 Mb enough, maybe 4 Mb ) jaclaz

Just for your interest, last time I checked when counting with 0 based, 4th partition was (hd0,3) and NOT (hd0,4). You know, like in: 0 1 2 3 AND NOT like in: 0 1 2 4 as you seem to be used to. Sure. You didn't use what cdob suggested, you tried a variation of it, without understanding that what cdob posted was ALREADY relative to last (4th partition) and that in grub4dos (hd0,4) means "first logical volume inside Extended Partition". You are welcome. Go trying helping people.... I'll refrain from posting any more useless comments, or comments at all. Be well. jaclaz

pankaj Please, do check the links you post, this one: http://www.aida32.hu/aida-download.php?bit=32 is invalid. It's now Aida64 (and Commercial ONLY) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDA32 jaclaz

Me too CANNOT see anything wrong, probably because I CANNOT see your syntax AT ALL! The general idea is: you have a problem you post what you did someone tells you to try something else you try it and report Right now all you have done is posting bits and pieces with NO background, nor relation between them. If you have problems with grub4dos syntax/commands DO USE command line (and NOT pre-made menu.lst entries): http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/basics.htm http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/cli.htm Post WHAT you are attempting to do, HOW you attempted doing it and the EXACT feedback grub4dos gave you, or get a standard reply #32: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=2587 Compare with: http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/FGA/problem-report-standard-litany.html jaclaz

Interesting link, literally: hxxp://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/... jaclaz

Please give some links to "the place". I know one place where Licenses are Legitimate for sure: http://www.microsoft.com/ http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/All-Software/category/801 (but where XP is NOT sold anymore ) But there are quite a few "Wholesale retailers". You can contact Microsoft and ascertain directly if they are "Microsoft Partners" or not. But with a little fantasy you can check yourself. Just as an example, how come that this: hxxp://topoemsoftware.net/info/about/ is registered (instead of Stamford, Connecticut) to an address in Saint Peterburg http://whois.domaintools.com/topoemsoftware.net Maybe it's a multinational..... jaclaz

I don't thik it applies to "normally" installing it. jaclaz

Well, Windows 98 also is not "last hit" on the market. WHICH "that user"? WHAT's the point? You want to solve your problem or comment about other members' frequency in participating to the board? jaclaz