jaclaz

The mechanism through the default file currently implemented assumes that someone "responsible" actually makes the installation and chooses wisely among the options. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097576/quotes

Broken google? Current: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd581628.aspx Just in case : http://sysinternals.freedoors.org/sysinternals-Real/ jaclaz

You could have a look at a (oldish) version of Serif DrawPlus (I guess version 4 should work allright): http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Graphic-Editors/Serif-DrawPlus.shtml Obviously there is NOTHING (AFAIK) as lean and efficient as EVE.... jaclaz

I guess the same that drove you to post your question: curiosity. (you know the thng that killed the cat ) There could be several reasons. A few examples: In Computer Forensics, finding a file with all dates on filesystem referring to 1999 for a .doc that has "Microsoft Word 10.0" inside it may mean that there is something "fishy" on the disk (altered dates), or if the PC has an installed, say, Word 2007 and you find a .doc with "Microsoft Word 8.0" it may mean that either that particular file was NOT created originally on that machine or that it was created by another app capable to save in .doc format that uses the "Microsoft Word 8.0" "signature".Same thing applies IF there is a way to understand if a file was originated on a PC or on a MAC. In Data recovery (or simply File searching) it could be a "selection" method. In programming, you could write a program that superimposes a "OBSOLETE" watermark on all documents created by a certain version... .... jaclaz

Not because I once proposed it , but: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=98552 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=98552&st=6 Me thinks something like this would "soften" the otherwise very steep initial learning curve.... jaclaz

No, no, it's the "right" Forum , it's just the wrong thread, if it's OK with you (just post so) I will split your posts to a NEW thread (still in this Forum) BUT named something meaningful like "How to further simplify WinsetupfromUSB install options", in order to "separate" it from the "general" present thread. (present thread is already 54 pages long, I am trying to avoid it get jammed with several posts that will either represent no interest for a lot of "generic" users or have a lot of relevance for a few "specific" ones) jaclaz

I guess it is, but since it's "your" users, it is something that *you* should do . I mean, it's not something actually *needed* or a *bug* of some kind, it's a "custom request" that has very little to do with the "main" app thread. If you start a new thread, posting the actual menu.lst that you have on your USB whatever, I will give you some ideas in which direction to experiment. Essentially it is a "more structured" or "with conditional execution" grub4dos menu.lst, it is possible, but it needs some time (yours ) to do the experiments and the checking. There will be the NEED to write *something* to either the USB whatever or to the actual HD to which the XP is installed/to be installed, in order to "switch" the conditional execution. jaclaz

I am not sure that I have understood fully the question , but you cannot simply check cell formats? Right click on a cell, select Format. Go to the "hour" in the left "categories", click on any of the formats on the right. Now click on "Personzlized" on the left. You should see how the actual format is "conventionally encoded", as an example: h:mm:ss means: h=hours in a 0÷12 AM/PM format,WITHOUT leading 0 if hour is one digit :=separated by ":" (colon) from mm=minutes :=separated by ":" (colon) from ss=seconds Now, try formatting column A simply as: hh:mm (this shows only hours in a 0÷24 format and minutes). In first cell of the column (A1) enter only: "1" and ":" and press [ENTER] copy the cell down 24 times, up to cell A25. In cell B1 insert formula =A1 In cell C1 insert formula =SUM(A$1:A1) In cell D1 insert formula =C1 Copy cells B1:D1 downwards up to row 25 Copy column D rightwards a few times, say in column E,F,G,H. Now select colums B and set it's format to "General" Select columns D,E,F,G and H and set their format as "General" You should have an easy representation of how "hours" are stored in Excel. Now, play with different settings for the cell format of columns D,E,F,G. For column H, change the format to: dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss So, what you entered initially as "1:" has become 01:00 but actually represents one in the morning of "day 0" of January 1900. (some spreadsheet programs may actually use 31/12/1899 ) As you can see in line 24, when you sum 24 times "one hour", you get "00:00" of the "day after". Now, in cell I1 insert function: =HOUR(H1-H$1) and copy it down up to cell I24 Now, in cell J1 insert function: =HOUR(A1) and copy it down up to cell J23 In cell J25 insert function: =SUM(J1:J24) Now, in cell K1 insert function: =MINUTE(A1) and copy it down up to cell K23 In cell K25 insert function: =SUM(K1:K24) Play a bit changing values in cells A1 to A24. So, summing "hours" increases the actual hours up to 24 and then it increases the day (or date), in other words a spreadsheet treats "hours" exactly as a conventional clock does, using a 12 or 24 modulus. Data input as "hours" is actually a date (01/01/1900) of which you can ONLY see the hour part. You need "special" DATE functions, like HOUR, MINUTES, SECONDS to calculate the difference between two dates OR extract the relevant parts. I hope this clears a bit the issues.... jaclaz

That would sound very "queer". I mean there is not AFAIK a known hard disk size limit in that range of sizes. The nearest is the 128 Gb LBA28/48 limit, but that applies to the OS and not normally to BIOS. Notebooks/laptops are prone to have "peculiar" BIOSes, but desktops are unlikely to. I guess you need to get your hands on a smaller drive and check it works on that MB, it is possible that *something* else is wrongly set or defective. There is at least a report: http://www.techenclave.com/storage-solutions/intel-865gbf-motherboard-compatibility-500gb-1tb-150875.html of 320 Gb acdtually working (but 1 Tb NOT working) on that board, and one definitely saying that 320 Gb does work: http://www.computing.net/answers/hardware/intel-d865gbf-and-seagate-sata-hdd/48293.html and here is a report of a 500GB being detected (but working slowly): http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1218331 So right now I would vote for the *something* else.... jaclaz

What you need is some kind of inventory software: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=75959 though the thread is mainly related to hardware inventory, there a few links to (free) software inventory capable apps too. jaclaz

Sorry, but I don't get it. Please choose one : Before I posted my question I knew this printer was toast, but I posted the question all the same as if it was an actual problem I was having, just to see how I could waste some other people's time for nothing Before I posted my question I assumed this printer was toast, and I am so stubborn I won't even try the suggested remedies Before I posted my question I assumed this printer was toast, but now I have tried resetting it and it worked Before I posted my question I assumed this printer was toast, but now I have tried resetting it and it did not work, then my assumption was correct Before I posted my question I knew this printer was toast, as I surely killed it using the cleaner on the head, but .... Before I posted my question I was bored to death, just like I am now, and not having anything better to do in my electronics related business and when this happens I just post something random on a technical board to see how people reacts to it (or expand to the actual meaning...) jaclaz

There must have been a misunderstanding. Windows XP/2003 and later by default: CAN see multiple partitions on a USB device that is seens as "Fixed" (please read 100% of USB hard disk drives) CANNOT see multiple partiions on a USB device that is seen as "Removable" (please read 99.99% of USB Flash/sticks/pendrives) The filter drivers cfadisk.sys (Hitachi Microdrive Filter Driver) and Anton Bassov's dummydisk.sys allow Windows to see ANY "Removable" device as "Fixed". The filter driver "reversed" dummydisk.sys (as well by Anton Bassov) allows Wondows to see ANY "Fixed" device as "Removable". The two current versions of WinSetupFromUsb: 1.0 beta6 - 7.March.2010 and Latest "stable" - vers. 0.2.3 - 06.July.2009 are DIFFERENT, they use different approaches and may use Filter drivers in different way. You need to specify WHICH version you used. Since you are saying (if I get it right ) is that the "just and newly installed" XP cannot see more than one partition of the USB HDD from which it was installed, it should mean that *somehow* rdummy.sys is installed and running on the newly installed XP. To simplify (hopefully): if you can see only one partition on a USB Hard Disk Drive (Fixed), it means rdummy.sys is installed and running. if you can see more than one partiion on a USB stick (Removable), it means that either cfadisk.sys or dummydisk.sys is installed and running. Or if you prefer: "removable"+"nothing"="removable" "fixed"+"nothing"="fixed" "removable"+"dummydisk.sys"="fixed" "removable"+"cfadisk.sys"="fixed" "fixed"+"rdisk.sys"="removable" jaclaz

Interesting question, maybe you had some experience with a few "less fluent in English" Italians? I presume that the "average internet English" (written by non-British people) sounds a lot like "pidgin English" to the British (well actually a lot of American English probably does the same ), but don't think that average "Italianish" is in any way worse than "Portuglish", "Spanglish" or "Germanish" .... I simply try to do my best in writing in English as it was taught to me (more years ago than I like to recall... ) by an English mother-tongue teacher, I am sure she would be happy to know that all the time she spent with me wasn't entirely wasted. Sure it is possible , only you are making it much easier (or rather too "one-size-fits-all") than it really is. Take your time reading these TWO threads: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8944 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5041 Here we have a problem, disambiguation needed: GRUB is "GRUB Legacy", discontinued, has NOT ANY "special" provision for DOS, NT or .ISO mapping/booting grub4dos is an evolution of #1, which ADDS "special" provisions for DOS, NT, .ISO mappping and many more GRUB2 is now "GRUB" it is a COMPLETELY REWRITTEN bootmanager, with same features of #1, AND added .ISO mapping BUT NOT any "special" provisions for DOS, NT, and a number of other features grub4dos has. What you want is NOT "GRUB", NOT "GRUB legacy", NOT "GRUB 2" but grub4dos: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 Read AT LEAST (besides the two already given threads) the other "stickies", i.e. the WHERETO: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=14 AND the GUIDE (linked to here): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5187 jaclaz

Read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128092&st=1213 (2.5" being smaller, the effect is less evident, but you can feel it allright if you move it slowly) Also, take into account that generally speaking, 2.5" external USB drives draw, if PERFECTLY working ALL the power available on a USB port (and some more ). Some cases have a Y USB cable for this reason, like: It is not actually impossible that for *any* reason the drive draws a little bit more current than expected (and thus it fails with a "normal" single connection). jaclaz

I have one word for you : CAPILLARITY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_action jaclaz

I'll try again. Since you "removed" it, although you completely fail to describe it, that drive must be in an external case, connected either through USB (more likely) or e-sata (less likely). Exception made AFAIK for a few WD drives (that actually have a USB interface on the actual disk drive) most of these are either IDE/ATAPI/PATA or SATA hard disks connected to a USB converter, powered by an external or internal power adapter. Thus what you call "drive" is actually made of THREE main parts: actual disk drive USB converter Power adapter ANY of the three may have gone foobar (and it could also be a mere coincidence that it happened at the time you removed the drive from a booted system without "safely removing"). So the troubleshooting path is: try the whole thing on another PC <-it doesn't work check if the drive actually spins up If not check the power supply. If power supply is OK, open the disk case and try the disk in another case, or hooking it directly to a PC (through PATA or SATA) or using an el-cheapo USB converter, example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812232002 really el-cheapo: http://cgi.ebay.it/CAVO-ADATTATORE-USB-2-0-IDE-SATA-2-5-3-5-/160475671112?pt=Cavi_Prolunghe_Convertitori&hash=item255d186a48 jaclaz

It must be tough living with a broken google .... http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/forums/inkjet/15284 http://inkjetprinterhelp.us/S9000.htm IF it works, it seems to me like MUCH cheaper! jaclaz

How BIG is your home network? Last time I checked, WOL used MAC addresses.... Just in case, these may come useful to you : http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/poweroff/poweroff.htm jaclaz

Here: http://www.goosee.com/ jaclaz

Right idea , wrong reason. You should have been killed for NOT BACKING UP , not for (unfortunately) failing to revive the disk. The effect would be the same, as far as you are concerned , but in the first case if the jury were made of technicians your wife would have been declared NOT GUILTY . Anyway, I am happy one more (or maybe two counting your wife) happy bunnies are added in the basket : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128727&st=10 jaclaz

This is because there are always choices. (decisions, decisions, always decisions... ) Now, let's try - as Mr. Hercule Poirot would have done, using our little grey cells. You have two options: have your drive replaced by the guys who made it with a new or re-furbished one, for free use a lame program (coming from the same guys above) to attempt fixing this drive - that already failed and that you *somehow* managed to re-vive (temporarily) following the advice of a bunch of completely unqualified, perfect strangers on an internet forum, which solution was not good enough to avoid having that error I'll try to use one of my carpenter's comparisons : You have a plank, that due to humidity, curved itself and it's not good anymore to be used as your floor: You have the offer from the guy who sold it to you to replace it with another, perfectly straight one. Or you can use steam, vices, wedges, and what not to attempt straightening that plank. Which one do you choose? In any case, choose wisely. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097576/quotes

@Bloubul @Tulex Q: Guess WHY there is a read-me-first? A: To avoid adding questions (and answers to them) to the present thread. If you could take the time to READ it: and tell me WHAT new information did you get/provide in the last 4 posts, I would be happy to add it there. jaclaz

Well, no. Things don't get fixed by themselves (unfortunately). Most probably *something* got entangled within the MountManager/Registry, which with a disconnect/reboot/reconnect is resolved (in other words nothing needed to be fixed on the actual HD, only in the OS, most probably Vista ) jaclaz

Good. Another happy bunny in the basket: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128727&st=10 jaclaz

It could be several things. Like: the PSU going/gone bad the PSU overcurrent protection being too "sensitive" the PSU simply being under-dimensioned for the total amount of power drawn (probably on the +5 V rail) the hard disk got "sticked" (heads or bearing) and drawing too much power on spin-up the hard disk motor having a current leak The only thing you can do easily is to try the procedure and hard disk with another PSU. Otherwise you need to use a multimeter to check the actual current drawn at connection/spin-up. jaclaz