jaclaz

I see. You don't want my help. Bye, bye. jaclaz

@Lonecrusader Not really. There is no real "need" to actually re-map the hard disk drive, it is just one of the possible solutions, and you should be careful between the use of "booting XP" or "booting the XP bootloader NTLDR" (which are two very different things). This is not different in any way from what will happen to the 9x. I mean, if something goes wrong with your 98 partition and/or bootsector the XP will be unbootable AS WELL as your 9x. That's why do boot starting floppies exist (and yes, you can boot start NT/2K/XP/2003 and Vista :ph34r:/2008/7) from a floppy. cannie made a very specific topic, that is however full with info about dual booting: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=118623 jaclaz

@VideoRipper Well, if it wasn't clear enough, I was kidding, obviously nothing personal, the bashing was not actually against anyone, but rather a simple attempt to remember people the principles of Occam's Razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor or, if you prefer, KISS approach (Keep It Simple Stupid). The point is general. Lots of people think that since they have Delphi (and think they can program in it - mind you I am not saying that the "think" applies to you personally ) they are the allmighty (and only) Gods of computing. Script-kiddies, as you like to call the small number of people actually using ALREADY AVAILABLE on the given platform scripting engines to simply solve simple problems, on the other hand, like to think that Albert Einstein was, besides a great physicist, a very wise man: So, only, a "philosophical" matter. The whole idea of "compiling" is, in my perverted mind , a completely "wrong" approach, a quick (and at the time needed) workaround to improve the efficiency of SLOW processors/LOW computer power, useful if you really have COMPLEX needs, you trade in flexibility and freedom for speed, which is of course very good for Software companies but has no reason to be if speed is irrelevant and if you are going to share the source anyway. A "simple" example of a "simple" conversion from .exe to batch: http://www.forensicfocus.com/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=4805 (the original .exe is 1,163,264 bytes) The batch is (in the published form) 1,024 bytes. (in a bit more readable version it is 1,278 bytes). Since it's use is targeted to "assemble" snippets, like a bootsector or a file header, I personally see the advantages of the "simple" approach, and probably Yzöwl could make it simpler/better yet. jaclaz

Just for the record, this is the page (in the last updated version): http://bearwindows.boot-land.net/win2000.htm Log/news here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2325&st=21 jaclaz

Is really TYHK99==KZW7179 ? If not, we have a couple of still unfinalized threads: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23479&hl= http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23635&hl= Where maybe TYHK99 can find some useful hints. jaclaz

OR use letter assigner Old, dead site: http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/ Via The Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/ XP, unless you use a migrate.inf during installation will assign letters along it's internal order, that mind you is slightly different from the DOS one, check carefully here (and links within): http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=85729 and/or post info about your partitions (just one primary and all the rest logical volumes inside extended or multiple primaries? It may make a difference.) jaclaz

SHAME on you! You lost trace at 2nd hop! http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10745 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10579&st=0&p=93201entry93201 www.hobeanu.com/blog http://www.hobeanu.com/blog/bypassing-file-system-security-in-windows/ http://www.hobeanu.com/blog/accessgain-tool/ http://www.hobeanu.com/blog/downloads/AccessGain.zip jaclaz

WHICH steps? Can you DETAIL them, EXACTLY as you performed them? jaclaz

Very nice of you for us (rather oldish) "script-kiddies". Since you are a programmer, why not showing it? Please post the source code AND the compiled version of an utility capable of doing this in (your choice): C C+ C++ C# Delphi You have exactly 8 (eight) minutes from now, or you may take notice, once and for all, that for simple tasks, simple approach is faster. It would take to this "script-kiddie" far less than 5 minutes to write a batch for it (2K/XP only), but I am giving you a fair advantage. Tick... tick...tick... jaclaz

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