jaclaz

If you could re-phrase the above as: It would be easier to understand if the virii are actually there or if your Antivirus is a bit "oversensitive" and is producing a false alarm. Here is a VirusTotal Analysis of one of the files, copylock.zip: http://www.virustotal.com/it/analisis/beeb...bf4d-1257340919 And this is what NortonWeb has to say: http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=bootdisk.com strangely similar to your post. jaclaz

Hmm. I am not convinced it's "small enough", but anyway sounds much better. Let's see what happened in the years. XP (32 bit) was "advertised" as having the need for a bare minimum of 64 Kb of memory, and usable with 128 Kb: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sysreqs/pro.mspx Using the usual 4x multiplying factor that is needed with MS requirements statements , you had in practice: 64x4=256 Kb "real" bare minimum to boot 128x4=512 Kb "real" minimum to have a usable system In real world a working machine you would have a further 2x factor as in: 128x4x2=1.024=1Gb Now using the mythical 1.5x factor you have respectively: 256x1.5=384 pagefile +256 RAM=640 Mb TOTAL 512x1.5=768 pagefile +512 RAM=1280 Mb TOTAL 1.024x1.5=1.536 pagefile +1.024 RAM=2.560 Mb TOTAL Now, you have x64 that can address a larger amount of RAM than x32, but I do not think that x64 needs that much amount of memory, I mean something like 4 time the actual RAM and (4.096+2048)=6,144/2.560=2.4 times the TOTAL. Questions: What happens if you try running your "Torture Test" on your machine after removing RAM as to remain with "only" 2 Gb of it? What becomes the usage of the pagefile? Hints (not necessarily directly related to questions above): an OS tries to use as much resources as you have available "torture tests" (and in a minor way benchmarks) are - besides inhuman - largishly pointless, the only thing is to see how your paricular system bewhaves with the particular settings you chose with the particualr use you make for it. jaclaz

@BeatZero Yep, but how was ME started? I mean, no offence intended and with all due respect to you , but it would be first time I find something posted/detailed by MDGx coming out as substantially inaccurate. Maybe there are some dependencies that don't work because of your particular setup. jaclaz

Sure I did , but I am one step ahead of you : when and if your only copy of them (as you did not back them up properly) will fail , don't come here asking for help in recovering them.... @tain I am sure that this approach is applied whenever pruning is made. jaclaz

It is possible that nlite edits a path somewhere (.sif or similar files) using lower case characters. jaclaz

If I may, and of course as a provocation , I find deleting old posts/threads to be "falsifying history". Who knows if any of those posts has been useful (or will be) if not for anything else to avoid re-posting the same question/problem/report? Just imagine if (say) Picasso had destroyed ALL his juvenile paintings or Kipling ALL his initial attempts at literature.... Ok, ok, moot point, I do know a fair number of artists and writers whose WHOLE production could be destroyed without any damage to humanity (actually avoiding quite a number of nightmares to future generations).... You see? When you are sad or in blue mood all you have to do is come here and read a few of your early posts, and it will cheer you up a bit! jaclaz

There is no such thing as a "reliable" program simply because there is no "reliable" way to diagnose health, or to be more exact predict life of a drive. There are S.M.A.R.T. info readers, that's all. Specific manufacturer's diagnostics tend to be reliable to diagnose existing problems, but won't as well predict ANYTHING reliably. Check the (now getting oldish) famous Google report on their drives: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf jaclaz

Hey peeps, have you checked/tested what is here: http://www.mdgx.com/newtip2.htm FAST EXIT | RESTART! If I get it right, ability to EXit to DOS depends on the way ME is loaded. jaclaz

Well, I have been called names before, but it's the first time I've been tagged (indirectly) as "bizarre". I find OBVIOUS that each system has to be visible AND run on a different drive, i.e. Windos 9x is ALWAYS on D:, NT is ALWAYS on E:, 2K is ALWAYS on F:, XP is ALWAYS on G:, ME is ALWAYS in the trashbin . jaclaz

There is no tricky part in identifying TX and RX. Three easy steps: You connect the cables. You have EXACTLY a 50% probability they are correctly connected. If it doesn't work, you exchange the cables and get 100% probability. Sorting the TX and RX COUPLE of wires FROM the other ones in a CA-42 or other similar cables (if not already documented in this thread) may be trickier as you have to identify also the + and - to which to connect the external battery needed by some of them and the GROUND cable. jaclaz

And here: http://www.msfn.org/board/install-windows-usb-f157.html BUt are you talking of multiboot XP and 7 in the sense of installing them from USB to some other media or in the sense of running on USB stick ? jaclaz

Windows cannot uninstall itself. It can only get corrupted and become unbootable at most. Yep , but a number of laptops have a "recovery option" on hard disk, which, if run will re-make the drive just as when it came from factory, some use a pre-configured drive image while some simply have a half-pre-configured image that automatically starts the installation of windows, which would look to the (unsuspecting) user who somehow "triggered" the recovery, as if Windows had UNinstalled itself and then tries re-installing itself from scratch. I presume this is what may have happened. If something like the above has happened, then there is (additionally) an error in the "new" setup, which probably can be fixed through safe mode and/or command line. jaclaz

Actually -iso-level 4 is normally used in 1.x PE's, AFAIK: http://www.msfn.org/board/create-iso-file-...ofs-t95805.html jaclaz P.S.: And yes, the -R should be a -r

The CA-42 is the CA-42, see here for a nice pictorial and description: http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate...-page-1756.html There is not such a thing as "CA-42 for modell xxxx" and "CA-42 for model yyyy", there are "real" CA-42's and "fake" CA-42's, your mileage may vary, there are differnt "versions" of the CA-42, too, "version 2.2 is reported to be working: http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate...-page-1794.html Why people is so obsessed with using CA-42 is still a mistery to me. jaclaz

A rather largish choice, if I may go slightly OT, the 1.5 Myth is still a die-hard one. JFYI: http://tadej-ivan.50webs.com/myths.html jaclaz

Now I remember where I saw one lately, there is devload.com in this USB floppy: http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/usbdrv.html Here: http://www.infradead.org/devload/ And yes, it should work allright: http://osdir.com/ml/emulators.freedos.gene...9/msg00020.html http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/free...t/10707321.html jaclaz

There are several ones, Dynaload.com, ddl.com, device.com (just ggogle for them) Devlod: http://www.ddj.com/showArticle.jhtml?artic...;queryText=d%EF http://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/sysutil.html but surely there are several more that I cannot recall right now. Cannot say which one (if any) will work for MSCDEX or SHSUCDX and CD driver. jaclaz

I consider Partition Table Doctor http://www.ptdd.com/ to be an absolutely essential tool, incrementally more valuable to me than Vista or Win7. No Vista/Win7-compatible version of Partition Table Doctor has been released up to now, even if their EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard is Vista Compatible, so Vista/Win7 on a Vista/Win7-created partition is a no-no for me. No. I mean your reasoning is inaccurate for the first part. The referenced articles are about partitioning problems which are perfectly INdependent from the filesystem used. Your second problem is filesystem related and the intended solution is accurate in the sense that you won't have the same problems you have with NTFS if you use FAT32. jaclaz

Should it? I would have thought that there were other ways to integrate drivers, and not only nlite.... jaclaz

Just in case, WHICH: http://www.paulsadowski.com/wsh/cmdprogs.htm http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ jaclaz

Open a command prompt and run in it: NET CONFIG WORK what happens? jaclaz

oh, oh.... blatant breaking of "Rules" #2 and, much worse, #4 detected : http://www.msfn.org/board/data-recovery-to...345-page-7.html No way I can suggest an utility over the other (because of the "assumptions" ). The hard way (and needing 2K/XP): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5000 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=5000&st=1 (but my assumptions are as good as anyone else's ) The good ol' way (DOS), though accessing USB through DOS is YOUR problem ): http://www.ranish.com/part/ ANOTHER experimental way: http://partitionlogic.org.uk/index.html Sure there are ways. But "thorough" is quite a "heavy" word. Expecially if the thingy has some form of "wear leveling" the ONLY thing you can actually rely on is the APPROPRIATE "Manufacturer Tool" (if available). Compare with these, to have an idea of what I am talking about: http://www.msfn.org/board/screwed-up-usb-drive-t137990.html http://www.forensicfocus.com/index.php?nam...opic&t=3542 You are welcome. jaclaz

Ever heard of DOSSTART.BAT? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/135174/en-us jaclaz

Once ruled out Crystal balls, Tarots and I-Ching, not much remains. Patterns of dust on hard disk covers? But it won't work for new systems. Pig spleen has not proved as very reliable in other fields of prediction, AFAIK: http://www.almanac.com/image/pig-spleen-we...rediction-chart jaclaz

Maybe it's late, but probably loading the ERD50 as .iso or .img (with grub4dos or memdisk) would have solved you more than a few of the problems. Just in case: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9740 As well, mkisofs.exe allows for a "sort.txt" file where you give a "weight" or priority to files, this is used besides avoiding the "gaps" that may make files needed for booting beyond reach of the bootsector/bootloader, to speed up things (files burned in the same order they are booted). http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...20248&st=15 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8049 http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?show...c=8053&st=2 jaclaz