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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

At first sight the MBR and Bootsector seem like allright. It's an HP (laptop ) using a "PC Angel" recovery system (the MBR CODE is one of those peculiar ones that allow F11 for recovery partition), see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=131620 but the actual DATA seems "normal". It could be some settings in the Registry. Can you try attaching the disk to another system? Can you check the output of MOUNTVOL? Can you try running ddlistw? http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8219 Can you post the whole bootsector fo the partition (first 16 sectors of the partition)? jaclaz

In other words, basically since you cannot fix the partition that cannot be seen/mounted, you decide to "fiddle" with the working one (that maybe should be defined as "the one working BEFORE" ) RULE #1: If ain't broke don't fix it! RULE #2: If item #A is broken, "fixing" item #B won't usually have any effect on item #A I'll check the files and let you know if I find anything "queer" (besides your repairing approach ) jaclaz

Unless the drive has a TVS protection Diode shot.... thus grounding power Try just connecting the power connector to the HD (and NOTHING else) A little more info: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=128092&st=1213 jaclaz

Well, no. It's not a "specific" problem with NTFSDOS. It's a "generic" problem with BCDEDIT NOT being a DOS program, you know, like: This program cannot be run in DOS mode jaclaz

No prob , you asked, I answered you , my personal estimation is: Or if you prefer: Sorry if I seemed sarcastic, I actually meant to be pragmatic. This might come handy for similar calculations : http://www.thateden.co.uk/dirk/ jaclaz

Let me before express my opinion (this one founded) on the utter futility of your question. Unless you attribute me clairvoyancy related powers, WHAT actual reliability do you think can have the opinion of a Mr. Nobody on a board? It's just like asking me if the next year Brand "X" new car Model "Y" will sell or not. Here is a "trend report": http://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Silverlight'>http://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Silverlight Even IF the data is actually anywhere accurate AND IF you can see a pattern in it, ANY pattern , HOW the heck do you think that anyone can do anything but a completely random forecast? Here is a general report or current framework usage: http://trends.builtwith.com/framework The amount of Silverlight made sites found is currently negligible. jaclaz

You should see it the other way round. Nowadays there are BIG disks. Notwithstanding the amount of bloat that made basically the same OS get from 600 Mb (Win2K) to 1.5 Gb (XP) to 4 or more Gb (Vista and Windows 7), still disks have grown much more, so a lot of space in them is unused. Silverlight is a very good way to occupy a relatively small number of sectors that would otherwise feel lonely/uncared for being all 00's (that's about the only practical use of it, short of increasing, as seen above, the chances your system is more vulnerable to web attacks). I mean, the more things you add the more likely it is that they add vulnerability to your system, no matter how quick and effective will be updates, there will always be some chances that you get affected before the update, now having this risk is "reasonable" for something (an app, protocol, whatever) for which you have an actual use, it is much less so for something that you don't use, don't need or don't even know what's for. The safest route is always NOT having something (anything that isn't there, cannot break) . jaclaz

Rest assured, it won't. BTW there are a few FREEWARE NTFS dos drivers. Since the BCD store is actually a Registry hive, it would be interesting if someone could modify this: http://paullee.ru/regstry.html to run from a DOS floppy and access/edit the BCD. To change a BOOT.INI (not a BCD) from DOS, there is this nice thingy EDITBINI: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads-free-software.htm their Commercial BootIT NG does allow to edit a BCD (from floppy): http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/kb/article.php?id=318 I am NOT familiar with it, thus cannot say if it can run from floppy. jaclaz

What about nircmd? http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html nircmd setvolume 0 0 0 Would it run early enough? Earliest should be runservice: http://antivirus.about.com/od/windowsbasics/tp/autostartkeys.htm You might need to experiment with INSTSRV/SRVANY and/or with NSSM: https://iain.cx/src/nssm/ or similar utiities.... jaclaz

Isn't this the one? It's just one of the board updates that made links invalid. jaclaz

"not loading" says nothing. If you removed it without "safely removing" it, it is possible that the drive is perfectly OK, BUT *something* remained as a "left-over" in the Registry that prevents from having it show properly in the "Safely Remove" window, which means it is not "loaded" or not "loaded properly". (in disk manager the disk CANNOT be seen) Another issue that is likely to happen is that for any reason the data in the MBR (first sector or LBA sector of the drive) has been corrupted. There are three main types of corruption: MBR code was corrupted (disk will show normally, as well as all partitions in it but it is NOT bootable anymore) partition table entry (ies) have been wiped (in disk manager the disk can be seen as "RAW") Disk Signature and Magic number bytes have been wiped/changed (in disk manager the disk is seen as "not initialized") We need more data, some better descriptions. First thing to try is anyway connecting it to another working system (better if one to which that specific disk drive was never connected). jaclaz

I guess that you assumed that PLoP does everything (it doesn't). A "normal" Install XP from USB setup is needed to install from USB normally. If the machine BIOS does not support USB booting you can use (if it works on your machine) PLoP to replace the missing feature (and nothing else) in order to be able to run the said "install from USB". As well, you need PLoP to initiate the whatever will allow to copy files from the USB to the internal HDD to follow other methods or to boot a PE of some kind from USB. In other words, grub4dos can initiate a lot of "things" from HDD, but how do you get the things ON the hdd? If you prefer you have a "limping" PC (with the BIOS missing a feature) PLoP may act as an artificial limb to allow it "walk" normally, but won't take it anywhere, it only changes your question to jaclaz

Just for the record and FYI, I am probably the *only* boot-land member that doesn't use Winbuilder, finding it overly complex and the .script format/syntax an actual obstacle to knowledge. Just to show how I hold your findings in the highest esteem: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=11850&st=58 @joakim Sorry for the OT. jaclaz

Wouldn't it be easier to shorten member names? Hallo, Trip jaclaz

Just for the record, the advanced search became a gear next to "normal" search, later BOTH the "normal" search AND the "gear" disappeared, replaced by ONLY Google search, now it is back (both normal search and "gear"). Just for the record a "gear" has been traditionally used (wrongly) as a symbol for "Settings" on a vast number of softwares, the equation gear=advanced (search) is somehow unexpected, expecially since 99% of the board choices are (correctly) textual, using when needed dropdown textboxes. (the exception of the actual "Search button" replaced by a magnifying glass is otherwise VERY common in a great number of softwares) I mean, the "gear" could be an icon representing a hammer, or a shark, or a dodecahedron (first three symbols that bear roughly the same connection to "advanced" ) jaclaz

Unless I am mistaken "normal" and "advanced" forum search have disappeared, and only Google search has remained. Not only a link to it has disappeared, but also the otherwise used code: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=Search seems like not working. Nice added feature. It takes some time to understand that this still works : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?app=core&module=search jaclaz