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Let's wait for the specs. However, it was just a very short period, which I would date to 96-97, maybe first moths of 98 at the most before ANY motherboard adopted the int13h extensions: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/sizeGB8-c.html The "real" trouble is that those motherboard will probably have ATA 1: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/stdATA-c.html or ATA 2: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/stdATA2-c.html I.e. so called ATA-33 or at the most ATA-66 IDE interface, which will reduce any OS to a hog with todays amount of data read and written: http://www.storagereview.com/articles/9908...ata66vs33a.html jaclaz

That is a form of hybrid CD, "mixed mode", the so called CD-Extra (CD Plus or Enhanced CD). A number of commercial tools will do this kind of cd's. The procedure using cdrecord and mkisofs is sketched here: http://wizardlinuxteam.altervista.org/wiki...oni_separate.29 http://howto-pages.org/cdwriting/11.php But you seem like having problems with the first run of cdrecord, it is very possible that Vista breaks compatibility with cdrecord, but it may also depend on the actual build/version you are using. Latest versions should be Vista compatible, but you may need to compile yourself: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ Latest compiled Win32 port should be this one: http://home.arcor.de/artemis002/tools/cdrt...9-bin-win32.rar Courtesy of cdrtfe: http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/cdrtfe/index_en.html http://cdrtfe.sourceforge.net/tools/index_en.html You can also try to launch it in "compatible mode". jaclaz

Real programmers....: http://uranus.chrysocome.net/coke.htm jaclaz

Why being sorry? http://tinyurl.com/ycehmrl jaclaz

Apart the 2009 Award you just got for the most gratuitious use of the word "sycophantic" on a technical board , I agree completely to your proposal. I would also add: This way, you will also have more time to focus on important things like supporting Opera on portable devices with a 0.01" inch screen, or no screen at all and of course to better Opera Unite, so that every moron around will be able to share easily (and illegally) everything he has on his/her PC, and this will greatly help to find a way to shut down your business for legal reasons: BTW, I personally find a grest idea to make the new features: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=340121 UGLY in I.E. this is exactly what the good MS guys did for years (deliberately creating web apps that created content INcompatible with Firefox and Opera) and one of the reasons why they gained so much sympathy from the non-technically-impaired public and from EU. Heck, as soon as they managed to have a good platform, they are killing it's base for new features. Of course my opinion is strictly personal and most probably not the best advise from a commercial point of view, I am not a market guru like the ones that suggested that Coke and Pepsi should have a new formula and taste: http://www.walletpop.com/specials/top-25-b...ops-of-all-time (check entries #1 and #13) jaclaz

Hmmm. You don't have to go very far away.... http://www.msfn.org/board/tool-hide-consol...ows-t49184.html jaclaz

Well, the good thing about life its that everyone has his/her own reasons. The reason why I am not suggesting you another app, nor suggesting you anything else, is that you do not detail the "very specific purpose". Just in order to not appear completely unhelpful, I will throw in the "gracetime" command, without comments. jaclaz

I am completely sure, instead, it's coming from experience . Obviously a "new" drive, in perfect working conditions, has more probabilities to create a "good" burn even at its highest theoretical speed. Yes, of course a CD/DVD read on the same burner gives usually good results. But would that same CD/DVD media give the same results on another CD/DVD reader (possibly oldish and a bit flaky)? Remember also that generally speaking burners are mor "accurate" than plain readers. About "good" media, there are known issues not only with mere "quality" of media, but also on "couples" media/burner. Example: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20755 jaclaz

NO!!! DO NOT, FOR ANY REASON, SWAP BOARDS ON MODERN HARD DISK DRIVES. (unless you really, really know what you are doing ) I am of course not familiar with availability of electronic equipment in Jordan, but I doubt you cannot find by the dozen some NOKIA cables or some other USB<->Cellular Phone data cable that "talks" TTL, and an experienced guy to test them. I pointed you to an alternative very simple DYI circuitry. Even if you cannot find a MAX232 or similar IC, I am pretty sure you can find someone with a solder gun, some soldering paste and flux and some thrown away electronics: http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2007/06/1...ptor-explained/ jaclaz

No , you need a TTL level interface, NOT a RS232, (and not a parallel centronics, and not a VGA, and not anything else but something that gives the appropriate signals). A good part of this thread is about people asking if they can use whatever they have handy instead of what is needed, and they are told no, you can't use that. On the other hand: Would you risk that with something that may in theory blow the board? Read this: http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2007/06/1...ptor-explained/ You need AT LEAST a poorman's converter (and it is not guranteed it will work). TTL levels: http://www.interfacebus.com/voltage_threshold.html RS232 levels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-232#Voltage_levels WHY a converter of some kind is needed: http://www.maxim-ic.com/app-notes/index.mvp/id/83 jaclaz

Maybe you missed that the FAQ's: http://www.msfn.org/board/faqs-t116766.html try to address common problems, and #4 seems like the one you reported . I find much more "preoccupying" the other two issue you reported: D: as drive letter Setup files deleted Can you post some more exact details of what you did and which options you chose (and also which version did you use) jaclaz

Yes , usually later versions have "better" capabilities and work "smoother", (the 7-zip developer likes to work this way, as opposed to the usual MS way ) jaclaz

There is no .rsrc file in the exe file I downloaded. The image files are directly at the root, along with 2 other exe files. And when I open the images there is not that many files: e.g in cdboot3.img there is one file called fdc.sys, and in fdc.sys there are only 7 files. And similarly for most of the images. Am I missing something ? Or didnt I downloaded the right file ? Which files did you download? The ones I am talking about are the ones on the reference given by cdob: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994 Files are Respectively SP0, SP1 and sP2: WinXP_EN_PRO_BF.EXE winxpsp1_en_pro_bf.exe WindowsXP-KB310994-SP2-Pro-BootDisk-ENU.exe Are you using 7-zip or another app? I am using right now 9.07 Beta. In cdboot3.img there is a number of files, among which there is fdc.sy_ which contains (ONLY ) fdc.sys . jaclaz

Very good. You just joined the club of blindfolded troubleshooters. It is OBVIOUS that MS has not documented anything about this , they have been bragging around for years saying it was IMPOSSIBLE. (just like Internet Explorer being a "core OS" file, running 2K/XP from a USB stick, etc., etc.) Of course to get some target when shooting blindfolded you need lots of patience and you need to shoot a lot. As always, the suggestion is to forget (for the moment ) the actual XP install from your USB floppy like device, and start finding the solutions. What I would do would be (if I get it right you now have a booting USB stick capable through grub4dos to chainload SETUPLDR.BIN) to leave just grldr and menu.lst on the stick, removing all the rest and add to it the contents of the boot floppies mentioned by cdob: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22716 Open the downloaded file with 7-zip, then from within it open .rsrc, then open RCDATA then open CABINET then open each of the floppy images and extract from it the files to root of the stick. Try booting from the stick, you should get past the errors you are getting now. (and stop to something else ). The TXTSETUP.SI_ in the floppy set has: Directory di C:\Downloaded\XPSETUPFLOPPIES\Root_of_stick 19/12/2009 20.46 <DIR> . 19/12/2009 20.46 <DIR> .. 17/08/2001 14.06 28.558 1394BUS.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.06 6.259 1394VDBG.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 13.699 ABP480N5.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.57 91.441 ACPI.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.57 6.449 ACPIEC.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 50.331 ADPU160M.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 8.038 AHA154X.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 29.912 AIC78U2.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 30.488 AIC78XX.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 2.839 ALIIDE.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 7.277 AMSINT.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 15.258 ASC.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 13.211 ASC3350P.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 8.936 ASC3550.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 47.118 ATAPI.SY_ 17/08/2001 12.01 46.843 BIOSINFO.INF 17/08/2001 13.49 6.232 BOOTVID.DL_ 17/08/2001 13.52 7.630 CBIDF2K.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 3.975 CD20XRNT.SY_ 17/08/2001 22.24 34.873 CDFS.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 24.094 CDROM.SY_ 17/08/2001 22.24 25.873 CLASSPNP.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 3.671 CMDIDE.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 8.537 CPQARRAY.SY_ 21/07/2001 14.20 1.479 C_1252.NL_ 21/07/2001 14.20 1.642 C_437.NL_ 17/08/2001 13.52 29.302 DAC2W2K.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 8.001 DAC960NT.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 18.935 DISK.SY_ 17/08/2001 23.20 2 DISK101 17/08/2001 23.20 2 DISK102 17/08/2001 23.20 2 DISK103 17/08/2001 23.20 2 DISK104 17/08/2001 23.20 2 DISK105 17/08/2001 23.20 2 DISK106 17/08/2001 13.58 121.923 DMBOOT.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.58 69.563 DMIO.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.58 2.859 DMLOAD.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 10.997 DPTI2O.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.26 8.104 DRVMAIN.SDB 17/08/2001 22.24 76.742 FASTFAT.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 14.958 FDC.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 11.193 FLPYDISK.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 60.791 FTDISK.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.48 53.060 HAL.DL_ 17/08/2001 13.48 46.309 HALAACPI.DL_ 17/08/2001 13.48 39.492 HALACPI.DL_ 17/08/2001 13.48 50.996 HALAPIC.DL_ 17/08/2001 13.48 47.895 HALMACPI.DL_ 17/08/2001 13.48 52.257 HALMPS.DL_ 17/08/2001 13.48 37.640 HALSP.DL_ 17/08/2001 14.02 19.169 HIDCLASS.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.02 12.269 HIDPARSE.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.02 5.265 HIDUSB.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 15.648 HPN.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 23.251 HPT3XX.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.56 3.862 I2OMGMT.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.56 10.086 I2OMP.SY_ 17/08/2001 22.24 25.795 I8042PRT.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 8.560 INI910U.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 2.587 INTELIDE.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.58 20.351 ISAPNP.SY_ 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDA1.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDA2.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDA3.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDAL.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.120 KBDARME.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.120 KBDARMW.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDAZE.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDAZEL.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDBE.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDBLR.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDBR.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDBU.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDCA.DLL 17/08/2001 13.47 12.049 KBDCLASS.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDCR.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 7.168 KBDCZ.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDCZ1.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDCZ2.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDDA.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDDIV1.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDDIV2.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.120 KBDDV.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDES.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDEST.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDFA.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDFC.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDFI.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDFR.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDGAE.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.120 KBDGEO.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDGKL.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDGR.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDGR1.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDHE.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDHE220.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDHE319.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDHEB.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDHELA2.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDHELA3.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 8.192 KBDHEPT.DLL 17/08/2001 13.48 7.707 KBDHID.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDHU.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDHU1.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDIC.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDINDEV.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDINGUJ.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDINHIN.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDINKAN.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDINMAR.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 6.144 KBDINPUN.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDINTAM.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDINTEL.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDIR.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDIT.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDIT142.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDKAZ.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDKYR.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDLA.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDLT.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDLT1.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDLV.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDLV1.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDMON.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDNE.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 7.168 KBDNEC.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDNO.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDPL.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDPL1.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDPO.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDRO.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDRU.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDRU1.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDSF.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDSG.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDSL.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDSL1.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDSP.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDSW.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDSYR1.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDSYR2.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDTAT.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDTH0.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDTH1.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 6.144 KBDTH2.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 6.144 KBDTH3.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDTUF.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDTUQ.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDUK.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDUR.DLL 17/08/2001 22.34 5.632 KBDURDU.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDUS.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDUSL.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDUSR.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.144 KBDUSX.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDUZB.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDVNTC.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 5.632 KBDYCC.DLL 17/08/2001 14.55 6.656 KBDYCL.DLL 17/08/2001 13.49 6.327 KD1394.DL_ 17/08/2001 13.49 4.184 KDCOM.DL_ 17/08/2001 13.50 79.744 KSECDD.SYS 17/08/2001 13.51 14.354 LBRTFDC.SY_ 21/07/2001 14.20 847 L_INTL.NL_ 17/08/2001 13.47 19.213 MOUNTMGR.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 9.785 MRAID35X.SY_ 17/08/2001 12.42 45.124 NTDETECT.COM 17/08/2001 22.24 533.504 NTFS.SYS 17/08/2001 22.24 938.895 NTKRNLMP.EX_ 17/08/2001 14.06 35.701 OHCI1394.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.57 1.629 OPRGHDLR.SY_ 17/08/2001 22.24 10.256 PARTMGR.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.58 35.550 PCI.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 1.695 PCIIDE.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 13.478 PCIIDEX.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.58 54.287 PCMCIA.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 16.328 PERC2.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 3.363 PERC2HIB.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 22.761 QL1080.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 18.888 QL10WNT.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 25.938 QL12160.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 22.855 QL1240.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 27.359 QL1280.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.56 4.750 RAMDISK.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.52 21.479 SBP2PORT.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 50.517 SCSIPORT.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.50 8.226 SERENUM.SY_ 17/08/2001 22.24 29.943 SERIAL.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.56 198.488 SETUPDD.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.49 237.728 SETUPLDR.BIN 17/08/2001 11.57 262.144 SETUPREG.HIV 17/08/2001 13.52 6.092 SFLOPPY.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 5.519 SLIP.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 11.098 SPARROW.SY_ 05/10/2001 08.57 225.152 SPCMDCON.SYS 17/08/2001 13.56 1.599 SPDDLANG.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 6.751 STREAMIP.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 8.352 SYMC810.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 18.304 SYMC8XX.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 16.761 SYM_HI.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 17.923 SYM_U3.SY_ 19/12/2009 20.46 <DIR> SYSTEM32 17/08/2001 13.52 36.527 TFFSPORT.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.51 2.629 TOSIDE.SY_ 17/08/2001 12.04 71.155 TXTSETUP.SI_ 17/08/2001 13.52 15.864 ULTRA.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.03 11.490 USBCCGP.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.03 2.495 USBD.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.03 27.955 USBHUB.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.03 8.900 USBOHCI.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.03 54.560 USBPORT.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.03 12.620 USBSTOR.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.03 10.834 USBUHCI.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.57 10.088 VGA.SY_ 21/07/2001 14.40 2.437 VGAOEM.FO_ 17/08/2001 13.51 2.475 VIAIDE.SY_ 17/08/2001 13.57 33.045 VIDEOPRT.SY_ 17/08/2001 14.07 2.509 WMILIB.SY_ 218 File 5.402.669 byte Directory di C:\Downloaded\XPSETUPFLOPPIES\Root_of_stick\SYSTEM32 19/12/2009 20.46 <DIR> . 19/12/2009 20.46 <DIR> .. 17/08/2001 22.21 674.304 NTDLL.DLL 17/08/2001 22.37 469.504 SMSS.EXE 2 File 1.143.808 byte Totale file elencati: 220 File 6.546.477 byte jaclaz

Well, googling for: DOS NTP client program for a Network Time Server gives this: http://josh.com/SNTPC/index.htm and this (win09x - not DOS): http://nettime.sourceforge.net/ See also here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntpd http://cspry.co.uk/computing/Indy_admin/ntpd_time.html http://www.ntp.org/ It seems like the Delaware University program can be compiled for DOS too jaclaz

Just for the record different versions of Symantec Ghost appear like being "more derivatives" from Powerquest's Drive Image than from Binary Research: http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_alternatives.htm http://ghost.radified.com/norton_ghost_90.htm jaclaz

The "right" one should be this one: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22716 On floppy it is possible that files go into root (instead of a subdir), see cdob's post in the above. jaclaz

Happy I contributed to make another happy bunny. http://www.msfn.org/board/cant-access-repa...27-page-10.html jaclaz

Can you elaborate on this? How were these files copied? The LOG is saying that you have 0 Mb source: jaclaz

@submix8 Unless I am mistaken, the OP posted: that he has a DELL XP ISO and the .iso ONLY jaclaz

No prob, we 8+3 max experts (dinosaurs) can read "between the letters" of a filename better than young people used to filenames (LUXURY! ) like: which of course means that you will create a lot of confusion once you will release other tools USB related. Since you are going anyway beyond the 8+3 go all the way : Completely unrelated, but sometimes colours are useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_color_theorem If I may, I would re-add the feature of 0.9 (updating it of course) as an option. i.e.: Siginet's PLoP USB Boot Manager Installer + a radio button to EITHER: add PLoP only <-selected by default add PLoP AND grub4dos Though I do like "vertical" apps, a single choice is not overcomplicating it. Someone that wants to also have grub4dos would find your tool handy. jaclaz

Ahem... http://www.msfn.org/board/run-windows-7-xp...vt-t140245.html jaclaz

Most probably you have a SATA drive and miss the appropriate driver in the source. The dedicated forum to "Install Windows from USB" is casually named "Install Windows from USB" (as opposed to "Multi-Boot CD/DVDs") and is here: http://www.msfn.org/board/install-windows-usb-f157.html Check the FAQ's first thing: http://www.msfn.org/board/faqs-t116766.html If still it doesn't work (it would be very strange, as we have a great number of positive reports from the eeePC community) see if any of the alternate methods work. jaclaz

Actually we helped in WRITING the grub4dos guide : http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/thanks.htm If you are allright with it, I would split your post in a new thread dedicated to "USB seen as floppy" where we can continue experimenting, without increasing too much the length oc the "main" thread. I am afraid that you will need lot of patience as we will need to carry lots of experiments, but mo, we are not cornered (yet). jaclaz

I won't argue with you, either over this thing. If everyone is happy with calling this feature IFS, it's allright, I stand corrected, and everyone is happy. jaclaz