jaclaz

Just for the record the app is originated from China, and has an English "homepage": http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9460 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8986 jaclaz

If you ask a clear question, it would be easier to understand what you are asking and possibly give you an answer. Try breaking your sentence in short, simple sentences like: I want to install ...... I want to use ..... I want to create .... etc., etc. FDISK.EXE is a DOS tool. bootpart.exe is BOTH DOS and Windows NT/2K/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7 one. And the answer, at the moment is YES, but NO (provided I actually did understand your question ): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9820 jaclaz

You are welcome, though please take into account that what I described is what such a program SHOULD do, not necessarily what it does. I mean for all we know it could well simply copy files back and forth in a given order. If it works flawlessly under XP as dencorso reported, by instinct I doubt that it accesses filesystem structures directly. I guess more tests need to be made to check what it actually does. jaclaz

Glad to hear that there is another happy bunny in the basket : http://www.msfn.org/board/cant-access-repa...27-page-10.html The problem is that the sky may fall on our head tomorrow.... http://www.asterix-international.de/asterix/characters.shtml jaclaz

I am pretty sure that the Microsoft representative that supplied you those .iso's will be happy to help you in solving the problem with the OEM PC's. I doubt that you would get support for the use of nlite in a commercial environment, though. Should you have missed the new revolutions in technology, a media called CDRW has been developed, and found to be useful to avoid coasters. jaclaz

My intended use was far more "low-level" or "practical" : . I often happen to have a PC on a network not working - usually they are NOT using dynamic addresses/DHCP. Once set properly whatever needs to be set/fixed, which often involves uninstalling TCP/IP and re-installing it (or at least this is a method that often works for me), I normally need: the machine intended IP <-relatively easy to remember the subnet mask <- easy to detect, as I use to have it set to a "reasonable number" based on the number of PC's, not the usual 255.255.255.0 the network gateway <- easy to remember, I usually have them set as first IP of the subnet mask) the Primary DNS <- difficult to remember, as different networks use different providers and differnt DNS (and most of them are NOT pingable) the Secundary DNS <-see above The two "magic numbers above" are good enough to be remembered and should allow me to test: external TCP/IP connectivity by pinging external internet connectivity by using them to get to google without having to remember 74.125.45.100 jaclaz

The stick should boot to grub4dos allright. In other words, the log you posted contains NO errors related to "Could not install Grub4Dos bootsector...", or anyway, nothing that prevented the program to work. jaclaz

Oww, comeon is one of the Microsoft Foundation Class, most C apps need one, the MFC42U.DLL is however the Unicode NT version. BUT : http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm It re-writes the "index" of the files without rearranging the actual position of them. When you copy a number of files the filesystem more or less does: write an entry for File1 in the FAT write the actual File1 in the filesystem write an entry for File2 in the FAT write the actual File2 in the filesystem ... write an entry for Filen in the FAT write the actual Filen in the filesystem To simplify in the FAT the pointers are stored like (for the first two files): File1->Address1/File2->Address2 And in a filesystem the files are stored like: File1/File2/ If File1=zyzzyva.txt and File2=aardvark.txt, if you DEFRAG using a sorting algorithms you have: To simplify in the FAT the pointers are stored like (for the first two files): File2->Address2/File1->Address1 And in a filesystem the files are stored like: File2/File1/ if you use one of these utilities you have: File2->Address1/File1->Address2 And in a filesystem the files are stored like (UNchanged): File1/File2/ jaclaz

Yep, but it doesn't say "WARNING: if you use -u2 you can use only 8.3 names". The ISO9660 NEEDS the "-n" to add the ISO9660 extensions for long file names, UDF should have "long file names" since the very beginning. FYI: http://www.msfn.org/board/oscdimg-error-t111776.html jaclaz

And again, using torrents is legal as long as what you download is legal. "Sharing your own files" is NOT illegal as long as you have the license to distribute them, if they are really "your own" you have this right, of course. Sharing a non-redistributable file (and downloading it) may be illegal depending on your local laws. Torrent is NOT "evil" in itself, the use that it is made of it may. jaclaz

It seems to me like you answered yourself to your question : jaclaz

I disagree: directory sorting messes just with the directory structure, while a defragger will tackle the physical location of the files also, which takes much more time. And even if one may be able to configure some deffragger to just to do a directory sorting, it seems to me akin to using an Exocet to kill a common flea. I disagree with your disagreeing, what you say is exactly the reason why I put defragger inside double quotes, as "defragger". However, look at what I found : http://web.archive.org/web/19990222003907/...net.au/~sflynn/ http://web.archive.org/web/19980703181021/...ynn/dirsort.htm Sure it is Shareware (andf there is NO way to register it, since the homepage has disappeared) but maybe this is the "real thing". An older version is here: http://www.programmersheaven.com/download/3085/download.aspx @E-66 but we are talking of DOS/Win9x or 2K/XP would be allright as well? jaclaz

Thanks for the news. I cannot avoid to point out that whenever I see the word "likely" in the same sentence where a fix for a technical issue is described my legs tremble a bit. We might introduce a trinary state: 0=OFF 1=ON A suffusion of yellow="LIKELY" (or "LIKELY NOT", it doesn't make much difference in the result) Besides the flamewar between the companies, have we learned that by removing accidentally a null in a REG_SZ key we can create a BLACK, NOT Blue, SOD on almost any MS OS? Maybe some more "robust" shell (or design) might have been advisable. I find preoccupying how one side uses Google results: http://www.prevx.com/blog/140/Black-Screen...sta-and-XP.html To substantiate a pointless claim: http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollar...ess-metric.html And how the other one: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009...ty-updates.aspx uses "not broad": to diminish the phenomenon. Both guys should go back to school and learn a bit about "scientific method", "logics" and "statistics", IMHO. jaclaz P.S.: maybe they went to the same school the Seagate Customer and Technical Support guys went... :whistling:

Great ! I don't need anymore to write on a scrap of paper the DNS address, though aging, I guess I can remember 8.8.8.8 (the 8.8.4.4 will be a tough one, but I'm willing to try) And it is also pingable! jaclaz

May I add my wish that a lot of people will be able to jelp a new user... , gay or not. haclaz @irfan Be careful with your spelling/typing: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/guy http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay

Yep, I guess it's syntax highlighting may come useful for your stated goal, personally I like it a lot, making .inf much more readable than "usual". jaclaz

WHY should I? jaclaz

See if this: http://www.msfn.org/board/sony-vaio-preins...ed-t127624.html puts you on the right "track". Seemingly NOT good news: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=120228 http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=304154 http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread...149#post2706149 BUt you may be lucky and find some more details/more appropriated threads. jaclaz

UDF should support 254 bytes long names. http://homepage.mac.com/wenguangwang/myhome/udf.html jaclaz

How shameful. A windows 98 Frenchman that does not know/use a French program : WillyPad http://snoopy81.ifrance.com/pages/willy.htm From it's help: (the data about 0 is missing though) jaclaz

How much is the levy on a 50 spindle of DVD's. Is it more than 10,000 lira ? We don't have Lira's since the adoption of Euro, January, 1st, 2002 If I am not mistaken current levies have not changed since their adoption: Decreto legislativo 9 aprile 2003, n. 68 Article d ) has been changed : http://gazzette.comune.jesi.an.it/2004/119/4.htm from € 0.36/64 Mb to € 0.36/1 Gb ! But article h-bis) has been added: 3% tax on actual recorders/burners AND related software The referenced document: http://www.digitaleurope.org/web/news/tele...r.php?iddoc=816 says €0.25/700 Mb instead of the above €0.23/650 Mb for "Data" CD's, but result is the same If you get a 50 CD 650 Mb spindle: if the CD's are marked "Audio" you pay 0,29 x 72/60 x 50=17.40 Euros <- this is roughly 34,000 "old" Liras if the CD's are NOT marked "Audio". you pay 0,23*50=11,50 Euros <- this is roughly 22,000 "old" Liras or if you prefer respectively 0.348 and 0.23 Euros apiece It is not clear if producers can get a "discount" on this levy or not. jaclaz

And here comes again the differences with local laws. Most Europe countries have developed a "tax" on blank media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_copying_levy We are in the paradox that someone willing to record on CD or DVD his own data (say the novel or programs yo have written) pays a compensation to "content providers". There is even a CLRA: Copyright Levies Reform Alliance http://www.out-law.com/page-6821 http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/docs/other_ac...col_2006_en.pdf (Please read BSA vs. Majors) The original site, eicta.org, is now here: http://www.digitaleurope.org/index.php?id=1 http://www.digitaleurope.org/web/news/tele...r.php?iddoc=816 If I may, lot of bla-bla's and nothing actually done. It is foreseeable that similar levies will be introduced to hard disk like devices. jaclaz

Hey peeps, remember that 7-zip is, besides an archiver a (single pane or dual pane) file manager, and can access a number of .exe installers (of course not ALL of them). http://www.7-zip.org/ jaclaz

1) You should try these batches/snippets: @ECHO OFF ::rdummyinstall.cmd COPY rdummy.sys %Windir%\System32\Drivers\ PAUSE sc create rdummy binPath= %Windir%\System32\Drivers\rdummy.sys type= kernel start= disabled group= "System Reserved" DisplayName= "USB HD as Removable Filter" sc query rdummy sc qc rdummy PAUSE @ECHO OFF ::rdummystart.cmd sc config rdummy start= demand sc query rdummy sc qc rdummy PAUSE sc start rdummy sc query rdummy sc qc rdummy PAUSE @ECHO OFF ::rdummystop.cmd ECHO You cannot STOP the rdummy service! ECHO Run rdummydisable.cmd and reboot. ECHO If you want to remove it, run rdummyremove.cmd ECHO A reboot is needed ANYWAY. PAUSE @ECHO OFF ::rdummydisable.cmd sc cconfig rdummy start= disable sc query rdummy sc qc rdummy ECHO NOW it's time to reboot for the changes to take effect.... PAUSE @ECHO OFF ::rdummyremove.cmd sc delete rdummy sc query rdummy sc qc rdummy PAUSE I am sure you can "fill the gaps" or assemble them in a better way. 2) Not AFAIK, I presume that a filter driver could be written, but cannot really say. 3) It is possible, XP has also the VSS services that do strange things on the system, I would try using good ol' 2K, seemingly OT , but maybe not too much : http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9195 jaclaz

What about cmd.exe /c : http://ss64.com/nt/cmd.html jaclaz