jaclaz

Sure I am, and a pretty darned tough and picky one, if you want to know. Wanna make something of it? You can see how in the OP there is one question (you can see it is a question by the fact that it has "Question:" prepended to it and has one of those strange little hook signs we technicians call "question marks" at the end: We use, as a sign of courtesy and politeness to other members to answer their questions, which is what I did . Try looking at it again: Is it starting to make some sense to you, now? And no, though the last character in the above is again a little hook sign, you don't have to answer, it is a rhetorical question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question for which I don't want/need your answer. jaclaz

Before I have a nervous break down , let's assume that you didn't post here and opened an "assistance ticket" here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10571&hl= where you will hopefully be helped. jaclaz

I start to think that it is a different inteface, does it have a CP 2102 chip? https://www.silabs.com/Support%20Documents/TechnicalDocs/cp2102.pdf It should be similar in concept to this one: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8531 It has to be checked if the one you have is configured to be powered from the USB bus (and you can DRAW power OUT of the +5V or +3.3V lines ) or if it is a "passive" interface and needs to INPUT power FROM either the +5V or the +3.3V. It should be similar to this, and powered from the USB connector: http://www.pololu.com/catalog/product/391 if you WITHOUT ANY CABLE connected to it, attach it to a USB port you should be able with a multimeter to read 5 V between +5V and Ground and 3.3V between +3.3V and Ground EDIT: Affirmative, I reviewed the thingy, it is powered from the USB connector: Thus, you need to connect to it ONLY three cables: Tx on board ->Rx on hard disk Rx on board ->Tx on hard disk GND on board ->GND on hard disk Please note that if you have problems like "random characters" in Hyperterminal, GND should also be connected to any of the GND cables coming from the power supply which is powering the HD. jaclaz

No comment Not being an U.S. Citizen, I feel like I can divulge this document.... ...expecially since a rather similar one already leaked : http://spamemailgraveyard.com/2009/06/get-back-to-mr-kelvin-williams-only.html The crisis is really a bad thing , this guy went down from US$ 570 to US$110! jaclaz

Hah, you should make it a LARGE one and also (virtually) deliver it. For the record, among others, bearwindows, and IMDISK and FIRADISK (and WinVBlock which I forgot to mention ): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8168 are not necessarily "boot-related", whilst this one: Universal HDD Image files for XP and Windows 7 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9830 (which also I forgot to mention ) though "boot-related" is more the kind of topic you would like to find on MSFN, as well as Clonedisk: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8480 and the new "replacements" for NT setup (these should actually be of your interest ): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7721 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10126 and even this small thingy to which I contributed a little may be of use in your future: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9765 jaclaz

Theoretically, provided that it is an actual IFS driver, it should be installed on the system, but also a File System Recognizer with provisions for UDF should also installed, which I presume would be IFSMGR.VXD I fear that practically, with all the dependencies and what not you will have a hybrid system, a couple of completely unrelated, but not that much keyb articles: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/273017/en-us http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256015/en-us which should mean that the rabbit hole may be deeper than what you may think.... These may be actually useful: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751120.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc768198.aspx http://www.buildorbuy.org/pdf/win95bootstrap.pdf Since there is not enough mess yet in this thread, I'll throw these on the table, without comments: http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/index.html http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/dvd4dos.htm http://www.binarymagics.com/site/magic_udf_vcl.html http://www.backupcritic.com/faq/what-is-udf-reader.html http://www.backupcritic.com/data-recovery/udf-reader/index.html http://www.backupcritic.com/data-recovery/udf-reader/history.html http://www.backupcritic.com/data-recovery/udf-reader/need-udf-reader.html http://download.cnet.com/Adaptec-UDF-Reader-Driver/3000-2100_4-10021086.html http://www.nodevice.com/driver/company/Panasonic/page7.html jaclaz

Please don't! We have just found a perfectly legal and easy way to get from Microsoft a .cab sized 479,056 bytes(compressed) that ends up as a 1,069,376 .ocx file that makes your nice app work perfectly and you want to replace it with a few tens of thousands of bloat? If you are gonna rewrite it from scratch, use Assembler. Completely OT, but check what can be done in 164,362 bytes: http://www.quickersoft.com/donkey/ http://www.quickersoft.com/donkey/winexplorer.htm jaclaz

mscomctl.ocx is part of the VB6 Common Controls package: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896559/en-us The good guys at MS have made it so that you need to have it in order to be allowed to have it : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=25437d98-51d0-41c1-bb14-64662f5f62fe And of course the good Linux guys have a way to get it nonetheless http://www.kegel.com/wine/winetricks the limit is your conscience. The files are also in VB6 SP6: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9EF9BF70-DFE1-42A1-A4C8-39718C7E381D&displaylang=en but NOT in the REDISTRIBUTABLE "Service Pack 6 for Visual Basic 6.0: Run-Time Redistribution Pack (vbrun60sp6.exe)" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290887 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7B9BA261-7A9C-43E7-9117-F673077FFB3C&displayLang=en But they are in the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/957924/en-us http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=CB824E35-0403-45C4-9E41-459F0EB89E36&displaylang=en&displaylang=en which has NOT requirements like the ones on the mentioned VB6 Common Controls page. The even more interesting part is that the file is available here: http://activex.microsoft.com/controls/vb6/mscomctl.cab Info taken from: http://web.archive.org/web/20050223232418/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/193366/en-us Basically, if you call mscomctl.ocx an ActiveX control you can download it freely, if you call it "VB6 file" you cannot. Which means two things: the MS guys are to say the least "mercurial" the Linux guys are sometimes not as "kosher" as they like to depict themselves And a third one : why the heck this nice program needs an unredistributable file in order to work? jaclaz

Sure, it's identical to yours: Strecture: \bootfiles\ \bootfiles\custom.ico \bootfiles\test\test\ \bootfiles\test\test\Desktop.ini Contents of \bootfiles\test\test\Desktop.ini [.ShellClassInfo] ConfirmFileOp=1 IconFile=..\..\custom.ico IconIndex=0 I simply used the GUI interface of XP to have the selected folder of the type "documents" then selected the icon I wanted to show, the Desktop.ini file inside the folder was: [.ShellClassInfo] IconFile=%SystemDrive%\bootfiles\custom.ico IconIndex=0 I manually changed the path to the relative one and added the line that was in your example "ConfirmFileOp=1" (just to make sure it was not that part the problem). jaclaz

Sure , why shouldn't it? ... unless of course you are planning to create an Excel or Word file exceeding 4 Gb in size ... jaclaz

Is boot-land "singularly focused"? Being it the Official support Forum for: Winbuilder (and all projects based on this engine) <- PE builds of any kind based on XP/2003/Vista/2008/Windows 7 grub4dos <- universal boot-manager IMDISK <- ramdisk and filedisk driver RMPREPUSB <- USB partitioning/formatting utility Sardu <- multiboot CD build with Linux TFTP32 <- TFTP Server Winimize <- reduce Windows 98 size and boot it from almost anything bearwindows <- universal video driver for 9x and NT based systems Unetbootin <- advanced install from USB app Firadisk <- new ramdisk driver with advanced capabilities And the UNofficial one for: fbinst <- USB partitioning, formatting and more Syslinux/isolinux/memdisk <- you know what this is LODR packs <- a new approach to portable apps Aerostudio <- graphical bootmanager for CD/DVD's and more Besides being "another" home for these: Maybe it is not as "singularly focused" as some other boards , but who cares? I mean, the imortant thing is to share and exchange experiences, ideas and knowledge and help each other, it doesn't matter on which board/place on the net. And, BTW, this is cheating : jaclaz

Now, it is NOT about level of power going in, it's about TTL voltage level getting out. Read the post I linked you to. Read the link in it: http://www.interfacebus.com/voltage_threshold.html Check the specs of your interface, connect it wisely. I personally doubt that on a USB to TTL interface the good engineers who made it wrote "USB to RS232", but of course everything is possible. Where did you buy it? Are the specs of that interface available online? jaclaz

The working link is the following: http://home1.gte.net/res0uhdx/QuadraVex.exe (the board parser included the final period or dot as part of the url, thus making the link invalid) jaclaz

Well, it's strange, it seems like working for me with "Desktop.ini" jaclaz

Short answer: YES. The point is that you need to install the same program TWICE, one from XP and one from Windows 7, using the SAME "target" (the third partition). The files copied to the third partition will be overwritten by the second install by an identical copy of themselves, but each OS will have the right settings. Each "system" volume (and Registry) will have the appropriate "general entries" and the "mass" of the program will be installed on the "OS agnostic", "third", FAT32 partition (though of course if we are talking of dual booting XP and 7 there is no need for it to be FAT32, it can be NTFS as well). Most, if not all, programs will work this way. jaclaz

Well, I don't. Obviously one must clean his system from any virus BEFORE formatting anything, who knows if the format will be effective or if it will be a fake one modified by the Virus? But then, once the HD's BOTH internal and external ones are clean from virii, there is NOT one reason in the world to actually format anything. jaclaz

Hey peeps, have you actually read cdob's post? Windows 95 lacks UDF support. Being UDF a filesystem, it means that a filesystem driver is missing, which not necessarily is connected to CDFS.VXD (which is the CDFS filesystem driver) . Astonishingly , the MS guys have actually given a sensible name to UDF.VXD, which is in Win98_48.cab: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/188436/en-us Whether it is possible to add it to VMM32 in Windows 95, it's another thing, of course. jaclaz

Yes, grounding is a must, expecially if you are drawing power from two different power supplies, but I wonder if you are using one of those auto-adjusting TTL interfaces , see here: it is possible that if you supply 5V to the interface you get the "wrong" TTL levels in output. So, you should start a new thread about your current problem, drive is not anymore bricked and it doesn't "belong here" anymore. The thing you are missing is that a drive that has bricked is a FAULTY drive, the methods we use on this thread may unbrick it, BUT there is no magic wand, after the unbricking the drive is to be considered FAULTY, you should get all the data from it, if you can, and then eithr throw it in the dust bin or use it as tertiary backup media. It is possible that besides the bricking problem your drive suffers from other problems you should run the Seagate Diagnostic Tools on it and report (again in ANOTHER thread). jaclaz

See if it's one of the ones listed here: http://diabo.freehostia.com/windows/remove.htm jaclaz

Nothing so obvious. If BIOS recognizes it, it is not anymore bricked. The fact that you haven't seen the percentage of advance of the user format doesn't mean anything, the main part is: To restate the obvious, this thread is about two problems: 0 LBA BSY state Your drive is EITHER in one of the two states above (and then this thread may be of use) or it is NOT (and then you should start a new thread about your problem). This: tells us nothing in order to let us try and help you, we need DETAILS. Wait a minute. You don't want a USB to RS232, I repeated this info n times , but it seems like it simply does not pass through . The drive "speaks" TTL. You can have: (on a desktop or laptop that has a built-in RS-232 "serial" port): a RS-232 to TTL interface (on a desktop or laptop that only has USB ports): EITHER: a USB to TTL interface OR: a USB to RS-232 interface AND a RS-232 to TTL interface jaclaz

I don't care if you have a legal key, the downloaded copy is WAREZ anyway, but more than that it is a modified copy with services/files removed. We won't help you on this. jaclaz

Yep , basically anything that protrudes from the faces of the ideal "parallelepiped" of the hard disk is an "artifact". Noone in his right mind would solder anything to a "normal" HD PCB, voiding the warranty an what not, so, yes, it is definitely a "piggy back" PCB applied to the drive, BTW nice visual representation VideoRipper , which you can easily remove and get the "plain" HD. jaclaz

The black thingy in your second picture does look like a connector that cna be removed from the drive. Can you post a picture showing the whole drive upside down? jaclaz

Probably slightly off-topic, but JFYI: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=142189 jaclaz

http://blogs.computerworld.com/15655/leaked_microsoft_intelligence_document_heres_what_microsoft_will_reveal_to_police_about_you?source=CTWNLE_nlt_security_2010-02-25 http://www.wikileaks.org/ jaclaz