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The "old" way: kb214752 appears like "lost forever": http://unidyne.webdesignery.com/blog/2009/02/running-net-apps-from-shared-drives/ BUT, knowing how to find it, it's still on The Wayback Machine : http://web.archive.org/web/20050208035236/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/214752/EN-US/ And, just for the record and FYI, how to workaround it. http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10745 jaclaz

Please do report HOW you: jaclaz

Yep , unless there isn't a way (robotic arm? ) to feed the floppy drive, it wouldn't make much sense to have an UNattended with F6 floppy drivers . I've seen CD changers: http://www.redfrontdoor.org/cd-changer.html http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/changer.html http://www.mocpages.com/moc.php/32433 http://www.video4viet.com/watchvideo.html?id=2FDGKTtLWxs&title=Lego%20Mindstorms%20Rcx%20-%20Cd-changer but never floppy disk changers. jaclaz

Really? Can you share the source from which you came to this conclusion? jaclaz

If I am allowed to go slightly OT , the general problem I see with ServicePacks the way MS creates them is, exactly the same their OS, the complete and utter lack of modularity. It's just like cars, there is nothing that p***es me off more than so called "packs". Just an example: http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Kuga/KugaIndividual (£1,788.00) Anyone in his sane mind may want Leather Interiors, but someone please tell me I am not the only one completely lacking any need for feeling: through having a number of stupid rubber inserts on aluminium pedals. Or to have a far more uncomfortable car by having 19" wheels: which anyway, last time I checked, had no connection whatever with the "need" to have "aluminium roof rails" or "privacy glass" Translated in plain English, it sounds like: DO you want Leather upholstery? Then your car MUST look like a US Government Car as you can see them on TV. And yes, you can get this one: http://www.config.ford.co.uk/fordconnection/en_GB/pv/popup.do?popup=RolloverInfo&partId=HBT for a mere £2,043.00, but you will have also Bi-Xenon headlights and sunroof, again, as I see it not really connected to wanting Leather seats. jaclaz

This is an OLD, ALREADY settled Class Action Suit. This is about misrepresentation of hard disk capacity, in a nutshell: http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/22/details-on-proposed-seagate-class-action-settlement-revealed/ The full notice is here: http://www.harddrive-settlement.com/notice.htm You have time - should you have actually bought a Seagate drive in the US between March 22, 2001 and September 26, 2007 - to make a claim before July 9, 2010 or, if you ALREADY made a claim and wish to be EXCLUDED , you can say so before May 14, 2010. The series of Seagate affected by the "bricking" problem, the 7200.11, has been manufactured starting from around august 2007, or at least that's the older maufacture date I could find here: with first purchase date in December 2007. Just for the record, Western Digital has settled a similar lawsuit: http://www.crn.com/it-channel/189602434;jsessionid=KYPUDXYVJLSFBQE1GHPCKH4ATMY32JVN born from the same misrepresentation (using, in order to falsely claim a bigger capacity of the Hard Disks, the capacity unit "SI Gb" equivalent to "IEC GiB" instead of the commonly used in computer "Binary Gb" ): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte jaclaz

Please READ the date when Fatlip made the announcement stuffer senselessly quoted... jaclaz

Good , start a new thread titled "Good excuses for having the stupid people at Seagate exchange drives", post in it the error you had. Hopefully a few more members with the error will have saved their RMA "cause" and will post there and we can soon have a database of such nonsense errors to feed the Seagate people with. jaclaz

IMHO, WRONG. Correct sequence: Backup the most important data on the drive Verify that the backup is functional contains everything of value to you Find a way to have the drive swapped anyway Let the guys at Seagate take the responsibility of re-certifying the (existing) drive or giving you a refurbished one. jaclaz

Please do understand that you are mixing TWO different problems: actually "making the SD bootable" actually booting a Windows 7 based PE (PE 3.x) from it They are NOT the same thing. #1 is relatively easy and there are a number of ways to achieve that. #2 is relatively difficult and AFAIK has not yet been documented Here you have a start: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20314 jaclaz

Well, not the smartest solution I've seen, an image should be useful in case of media (or device) problems, imaging on the same device looks more like a "recovery partition" than anything else. Where are you located? A no-name el-cheapo USB interface can be found for as little as a few bucks (examples): http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-to-IDE-SATA-2-5-3-5-Hard-Disk-HDD-Cable-Converter_W0QQitemZ130373652545QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item1e5ae01041 http://cgi.ebay.com/USB-2-0-to-IDE-SATA-2-5-3-5-Hard-Drive-Converter-Cable_W0QQitemZ180466134875QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item2a049eaf5b Imaging apps: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=100299 a small DOS one: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=100299&st=16 a COMPLETE DOS solution: http://www.partition-saving.com/ jaclaz

What happens if you run this?: @Echo Off CLS Mode 55,9 Echo. notepad.exe CLS Echo. Echo This does not show until Notepad is closed pause Anything different happening form the one you posted? jaclaz

I would reiterate that there are two "school of thoughts", one that insulates Head contacts and the other one that insulates motor contacts. If with one set of contacts don't work, use the other one. jaclaz

Sometimes the ports on the back are connected to a "good" controller and the ones on the front are not or are connected to an internal "hub" that creates the problem. This is expecially true when: booting from USB (back ports usually work while front ones may not) using a 2.5" USB hard disk (that draws power directly from the USB port, some external USB 2.5" drives have an Y cable to get power from 2 ports) Example: http://www.bixnet.com/5vps2powercord.html jaclaz

Part of the problem is the invalid link. The "right one" is this one: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=116766 But these are the FAQ's for "Install Windows FROM USB". (the 0x0000007b cause is anyway the same) What should actually be useful for you is reading this thread, where links to different methods to "Install Windows ON USB" are given. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=119963 Or use the new approaches: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9830 jaclaz

Good, so now you need not to add "another" Live XP, but only one, which should be possible. Read the instructions: points #7 and #8 if I recall correctly. jaclaz

You EITHER delete Hiren's Boot CD, which is WAREZ and use a legal build, OR go asking for help somewhere else. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/18408-forum-rules-updated-must-read/ jaclaz

...steal it. Or at least this is the way it has been traditionally done. jaclaz

There are ways, though as cluberti said, they are not "the officially supported" ones. All the "fun" istaking place here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showforum=43 and/or on boot-land (which right now seems like unaccessible) http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9227 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9830 Mirror of the app on 911cd: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23553 jaclaz

You should ALWAYS use start /wait (not only on some items). You also may want to add a title (a pair of double quotes will do), just in case: http://ss64.com/nt/start.html jaclaz

Quick howto (to find which drive it is): http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1186351 (bolded part by me) jaclaz

I am surely missing a point , but what is the practical need/advantage of having a FAT12 "super-floppy" instead of a FAT16 one? jaclaz

What the heck! I thought the WD guys were clever chaps, they managed to mess up good this time! Here are pics of the underside: http://www.oikos.com.tw/v4/viewtopic.php?id=61028 and more pics/info: http://yertech.blogspot.com/2009/04/hdd-platter-capacity-model-list.html#mu-x http://yertech.blogspot.com/2009/11/wd2500bmvu-confirmed-performance.html They can usally be ascribed at two reasons: broken hardware messed up registry/drivers If #1 there is nothing you can do. If #2 it will work on another PC, since it doesn't, I am afraid you're out of way outs. Only thing you can try doing is to visually check if any solder is cold or if a PCB track is broken, nothing more without schemaatics and tools and specificdrive knowledge. Right now I have NO elements whatsoever to say if a PCB swap with an identical BMVU drive or a similar BEVT one is possible at all (without the need of even more costly tools and knowledge). jaclaz

OLD "friendly" name (that used to work and was botched by the clever programmers at IPB board in the new update ): http://www.msfn.org/board/edit-window-installation-t124629.html NEW "friendly" name (currently working): REAL name (always working): http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=124629 jaclaz

Sure it can be done , though it is not normally as straightforward as you might think. However: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showforum=43 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22523 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22313 jaclaz