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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

The actual patent of stoopidity goes to Sdelete, (sadly to say so) it's Author and of course the DOD. This myth about the several passes will probably never die. http://www.msfn.org/board/hard-drive-secur...pe-t125900.html Such an option should be completely removed from ANY such app, it's a personal fight I try to carry on since a bit of time with no actual results, unfortunately: http://www.forensicfocus.com/index.php?nam...opic&t=3237 Result: http://eraser.heidi.ie/ If the developers still want to perpetuate it, they should have the decency to put the option behind a two level minimum password protected access. jaclaz

Let's for the moment assume they are not. (under the logic that IF they were, you would have it working) http://www.computerhope.com/cdromd.htm Either use the above or post BOTH your Autoexec.bat AND config.sys. Also, pay particular attention to the part: jaclaz

Have you got anything to lose? jaclaz

Well, the Administrator NOT necessarily has ownership of "everything". Why do you think that hard-to-die 2K users like yours truly love to describe XP as "a bettered win2K, only worse"? jaclaz

Most probably Qemu wouldn't be that slow (in the sense of much slower than Virtual PC) on that machine, and surely it is less picky. Both 4.3.2 and 5.1 versions need the Pentium II? jaclaz

@dencorso To sum up: Q1. How can I zero out slack space? A1. By using any of these 5 utilities. Q2. Well, which one? A2a. Killdisk A2b. Sdelete -c Action taken: Sdelete -z With all due respect to Multibooter, I cannot see how you can feel guilty of anything. @Multibooter The really bad news is that you will need to re-run again the Sdelete with the appropriate switch as random characters won't compress well, if you want to minimize the size of the image/clone. jaclaz

Really? And what is the answer to FAQ #2? And are you booting to a PE? jaclaz

You are not missing anything, you are confusing sector size with cluster size. Which earns you a C- And one hour in the corner behind the blackboard. jaclaz

Yep, that's what I meant. MSCDEX was released long before the ISO9660-1999 extensions were out, and a large number of DVD, even if not using UDF, use the isolevel only present in the extensions. http://www.mrichter.com/cdr/primer/udf.htm http://old.nabble.com/FreeDOS-reads-DVD-di...td14611122.html I don't think there is anything capable of UDF on CD/DVD for "pure" DOS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Disk_Format Maybe sometimes the good FreeDOS guys will make one. jaclaz

Really? I guess why we have a different method for "boot from a PE": http://www.msfn.org/board/install-usb-afte...pe-t121446.html jaclaz

Yep, FAQ #2: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=116766 Wintoflash should use the same methods as we do: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=137540 So it is likely that the problem is the same. jaclaz

AFAIK, there won't be a problem with Filesystems, the bootsector has a field for Sector size (or "Bytes per Sector"), but rather with a number of OS/apps that "assume" that a sector is 512 bytes. Offset 0x0B is in FAT12/16/32 and NTFS a two bytes field (thus allowing as much as FFFF/65536 bytes per sector) Of course it is very probable that a number of things may be bugged simply because they "ignore" this setting, as the 0002/512 has been there since the dawn of PC's. jaclaz

The 4.3.2 (unlike the 5.1) has been reported as working. See if any here helps: http://www.msfn.org/board/virtual-machine-98-me-t120495.html http://www.msfn.org/board/connectix-virtua...-1-t130286.html I never heard of "Windows Application Compatibility Mode" under 9x/Me Or are you trying to run it on 2K/XP? jaclaz

Track 0 is actually (normally) first 63 sectors. A small bug seems to affect MBRWIZ: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...8168&st=143 (most probably completely unrelated - but I won't trust MBRwiz right now) I personally only use dsfo/dsfi (as I know what they do) and MBRFIX (which as well I have tested extensively). http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/fr...ware/index.html http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm Examples of my personal approach (for the reasons explained below): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=3191 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5000 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=2362 The point, as far as I understand, is that you have an "atypical" configuration (please read as System Commander) and you want to do an "atypical" cloning (meaning that you are not doing a "real" cloning, which is a dd-like copy, or if you prefer a "forensic sound" one). So it is difficult to suggest you an app over the other. I can share my approach to this kind of things: NEVER, and when I say NEVER I do mean NEVER "trust" anything that Commercial (or Freeware) utilities give as "implied" or do "automagically". use as simple an approach as possible, leave "standard" tools for "standard" chores to people needing "standard" results ALWAYS, and when I say ALWAYS I do mean ALWAYS have a way back or alternate way should "chosen" one fail. use "plain" or however "documented" formats ONLY (and again I mean ONLY) Usual critics to the above: but it is difficult but I have to learn about a lot of things but it is not one click only but .... To which the reply is usually: but it is SAFE for your DATA. This said, I would try Odin: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5871 http://sourceforge.net/projects/odin-win/ and Partition Saving: http://www.partition-saving.com/ and Selfimage: http://selfimage.excelcia.org/ Also, when PROPERLY accompanied with an application taking care of MBR and hidden sectors, DriveImageXML is not that bad (I would have never thought I would have ever written this sentence ): http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22563 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22984 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=23408&st=0 (though I never got around finding the compression used for compressed images) About NTFS versions: http://www.msfn.org/board/ntfs-versions-t38439.html Most probably the version of GHOST you are using "thinks" you should be using XP instead of 2K. Volume ID can be gathered by using DIR or LABEL, and set besides through an HEX editor or dsfo/dsfi or similar dd-like tools, with a nice app from sysinternals, called, strangely enough, VolumeID : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897436.aspx jaclaz

Well, you can use GMAIL POP3 or IMAP access as well with M2, though it is not officially supported (WHY? ) it has been reported to work allright: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799 jaclaz

Macrium Reflect Free does apparently not run under Win98, so it probably has not been tested sufficiently with partitions created under/for Win98. Or more simply it was born after the "official" death of Win98.... and uses some NT only ways.... jaclaz