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We use to call them debuggers.... jaclaz

I will gladly. Booting a PE in RAM is not anything new. It is possible since the release of Server2003 SP1, end of 2004/first months of 2005 methods were found: http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9685 http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10445 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=10482 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=10806 The BootSDI plugin is just the way some winbuilder projects implemented RAMDISK booting. The way you depict, (mapping the iso to --mem with grub4dos) you are effectively loading the PE in memory TWICE, read here WHY: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=8258&st=37 With Firadisk or WinVblock, you re-use the SAME image in RAM loaded via grub4dos. jaclaz

Lots of them. Post your attempt to detect the IP and a (short, fake) list of the IP's to be compared, and we'll try to fill the gaps. jaclaz

Well, NO. With SOME free stuff you may get that, with some other you can get MUCH more than with paid for solution: it's not the marketing model that makes the difference, it is the quality of the programs and the dedication of the programmers that make a difference. But we do HAVE NTFS drivers with source: NTFS-3G, and the good guys at ReactOS before or later will release a working NTFS driver. And exFAT is not that different from FAT32, for which driver source is available. Sure it won't probably allow INSTALLING Win9x on such systems, but that would be rather pointless anyway. jaclaz

Follwowing the "DISM working on XP", there is now a new way to mount .wim images under XP, using just three files from Windows 7 (that you can extract with 7-zip from the DVD allright) and a new app by psc over at boot-land (Peter Schlang): http://nativeex.boot-land.net/Programs/Wim...x/WimCaptEx.htm Here are some batches to use it without winbuilder: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9765 Please NOTE that it is still widely experimental, so DO NOT trust the batches. @MrJinje Cannot say if you can adapt the batch routines to your nice tool, possibly as an option for XP users. jaclaz

So you managed to double post AND revive unneededly a thread marked as [sOLVED] AND completely failed to read the present thread. The whole point is that the HP USB format tool in some configuration DOES NOT WORK properly, and that ANOTHER tool needs to be tested in such cases. More generally, the use of the HP USB format tool is currently deprecated EXACTLY because it is subject to failures on some hardware. Now, be kind, take your time and READ: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9460 Particularly, READ the whole thread by Fuwi: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21702 ALREADY linked to by cdob previously. jaclaz

Owww , comeon, you should have learned by now that we are not (yet ) mind readers and that the stoopid crystal ball tuning guys are simply a bunch of incompetent and lazy bastards! WHAT have you used to partition/format the stick? With which settings? Which Filesystem? Which MBR? In the meantime, all I can give you is my standard reply #32 : http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=2587&st=1 jaclaz

Well, a man can dream, or not? The point I was trying to make is that with the Win9x environment largely out of any kind of official support, ONLY hobbyists, a few "dinosaurs" and more generally NON-COMMERCIAL users are likely to still use it. I bet that the revenues from very "vertical" apps, targeted exclusively to the unsupported/unused Windows platform are very near to 0. A few "illuminated" companies/developers, no matter if because they are just "good guys" or because they actually keep their sales under control and found that it's several years they were able to sell a license for apps aimed to a Commercially non-existant target, stoppped their development and made them available freely, a few examples: http://www.ardi.com/win_download.php http://web.archive.org/web/20080308215648/...ft.com/ftp/sdd/ http://www.xp-smoker.com/98smoker.html http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=752 On the other hand, there are episodes of what I cannot but consider commercially "stoopid" approaches: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...12326&st=22 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...12326&st=39 Now that Neoware has been acquired by HP, it's allright, since they don't have to sell their products, and a nice thingy has been lost forever: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2007/071001xa.html Sure, I don't doubt you have the knowledge to do that , only you won't do it or won't do it for free. Please note that I do understand that it is exclusively your choice to write it, choose the license form and to have people pay for your software, but I am notoriously cheap. Maybe, or maybe having a "C based" tool, would make it easier. Exactly my point: not foreseeable income from the sales of such software. jaclaz

@cdob watch out, I have a deja-vu feeling : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074860/quotes in case: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109830/quotes jaclaz

I wouldn't be (and am not) so sure. If it is, "generic" tool is here: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd it can also "zap" the whole CMOS, if needed. jaclaz

Are we talking of BIOS password (which is one thing) or Hard disk password (which is another)? What EXACT make/model of PC/motherboard? What EXACT make/model of hard disk? jaclaz

Also: http://www.mediachance.com/free/multimon.htm cannot say about 7. jaclaz

Post your complete autoexec.bat and config.sys. Describe in more detail the actual need you have for a virtual drive, in other words, try describing which is your "final goal" as opposed to "I want to use SUBST", there may be other solutions. jaclaz

As Bob Dylan would have put it : ..or in google and in doing some homework.... http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=9736&hl= jaclaz

Yep, smaller files mean slower speed, see this as a quick reference: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=9347&st=15 If you are "runnning" on flash device, this may (or may completely fail to ) help: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8757 Yes there was: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=9474&hl= And yes it has. You are now outdated. Firadisk: http://www.msfn.org/board/6-t137714.html http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=94 But of course you need lots of RAM and the time to transfer the data to RAM is anyway needed. jaclaz

As often happens, OFF-TOPIC, but not much : How much money do you think these guys are making nowadays from selling this?: http://www.techsoftpl.com/vxd/index.htm at US$ 429 apiece? http://www.techsoftpl.com/vxd/order.htm Maybe if they would decide to "let go" that software or provide a "complimentary copy" a C programmer willing to take the challenge could even be found. jaclaz

Thanks. But this is not clear (at least to me): I mean, from reading it it seems like you have two partitions active in the same moment. Also it is not clear if the thing "made active" is the Extended Partition (i.e. the container inside which one or more Logical Volumes or partitions can be created) or an actual Logical volume or partition. If you want, PM me in French an explanation of the entire process, and I will try translating it in English (your English seems allright to me , but some terms need to be disambiguated) jaclaz

Publishing on the Peoria newspaper, of course , I mean: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_it_play_in_Peoria jaclaz

As long as we are talking of adding/removing "entire" lines or "prepending/postpending" some characters to "entire lines" it is easily doable in 2K and later batches. This kind of approach is exemplified here: http://www.msfn.org/board/do-we-get-our-ha...ini-t66101.html Of course processing in batch a largish file like txtsetup.sif may take a bit of time, expecialy if you need to parse the entries. Since a .SIF or .INF is almost identical to a .INI file, ths may be a good base to play with: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batexamples_r.php But using an external app like gsar or fedit or the like would speed up times considerably. Batch does not "understand" correctly UNICODE, AFAIK, but what are the UNICODE files? jaclaz

Stupid pont maybe , but shoudn't they apologize also and mainly to the original Authors of the Code? I would also expect the apologizes to be on the actual page: http://store.microsoft.com/search.aspx?tsq=iso-tool where the "offending" tool was available, instead of on a (no offence intended ) lesser known blog. I mean, you publish on the Washington Post Site: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ (say ) a complete lie like: and then you publish on (say ) the Peoria Journal Star (again, no offence intended ) http://www.pjstar.com/ jaclaz

Please also note that USB 2.0 generally is NOT the bottleneck in the transfer speed, different sticks/controllers may make MUCH difference. See this (oldish now) comparison: http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/review/usb-...d-and-compared/ this should be the most meaningful graph (though of course actual read rates may change greatly depending on size of files and other factors): http://www.testfreaks.com/blog/wp-content/...fer-rates-4.jpg but the difference between "good" sticks at around 30 MB/s and "bad" ones at around 10 MB/s is a BIG difference! According to FAQ #4 here: http://www.everythingusb.com/usb2/faq.htm the BUS axtually tops at around 40 MB/s. As well filesystem used DOES make a difference: http://www.msfn.org/board/fat16-vs-fat32-v...ck-t125116.html jaclaz

Are we talking of these command line options?: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...036(WS.10).aspx or to these (windows 7 specific )?: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library...243(WS.10).aspx Which of course completely fail to say that if you: OSCDIMG 2.55 CD-ROM and DVD-ROM Premastering Utility Copyright © Microsoft, 1993-2007. All rights reserved. Licensed only for producing Microsoft authorized content. Usage: OSCDIMG [options] sourceroot targetfile Boot options: These options can be used to create bootable CD/DVD images The following options may only be used for single boot entry images and may not be combined with any multi-boot entry switches. -b This option is used to specify the file that will be written in the boot sector(s) of the disk. Example: -bc:\location\cdboot.bin -p This option specifies the value to use for the Platform ID in the El Torito catalog. The default is 0x00 to represent the x86 platform. -e This option means not to use floppy disk emulation in the El Torito catalog. The following options may be used to generate multi boot entry images and may not be combined with any single boot entry switches. Each multi-boot entry is seperated via a # token, as well as the number of boot entries. The options for a boot entry are seperated via a comma token. Each boot option must specify the boot code for that option. -bootdata:<num>#defaultbootentry#bootentry2#bootentryN BootEntryOptions: b This option is used to specify the file that will be written in the boot sector(s) of the disk. Example: -bc:\location\cdboot.bin p This option specifies the value to use for the Platform ID in the El Torito catalog. The default is 0x00 to represent the x86 platform. 0xEF represents an EFI-based system e This option means not to use floppy disk emulation in the El Torito catalog. t Specifies the El Torito load segment. If not specified, defaults to 0x7C0 Example: -bootdata:2#p0,bc:\location\etfsboot.com#pEF,bc:\location\ESPBootFile This specifies a multi-boot image with the default image having an x86 boot sector that launches the ETFSBOOT.com bootcode, and a secondary EFI boot image that launches ESPBootFile when booted Which of course completely fails to give much help, but it seems like the only "multi-boot" possible is between a "normal" no-emulation bootsector and an EFI boot image , not the "usual" kind of multiboot (BCDW, grub4dos, Syslinux) we are used to. Thanks to allanf for the tip: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=9696 jaclaz

Two different questions, and unfortunately NO definite answer. First question: Did I do the appropraite steps? Who knows , it is very well possible that your hard disk suffered from ANOTHER problem at that you did all the "RIGHT" steps, but for the "WRONG" problem, or it is as likely that you did the "WRONG" steps on the "RIGHT" problem. Unless the DIY interface was assembled by a demented moron, it should have made no difference, even if it was put together by a headless chicken, three possibilities: it works, i.e. you can issue data in the hyperterminal and get feedback it doesn't work, i.e. you CANNOT issue data in the hyperterminal and/or CANNOT get feedback it fries the PCB of the drive Since from what you report #2 and #3 didn't happen, I guess that the converter is OK. That is NOT a data recovery company, it is probably some kind of guy that "recovers" data in his basement or they didn't tell you all, or you omitted to say that you experienced several minutes of a hard grinding noise coming from the hard disk. A "head crash" technically is when, for whatever reason, including verticall acceleration beyond the sustainable one by the drive (i.e. falling) one or more heads come in contact with the magnetic surface of one or more platters. The damage to DATA is limited to those parts of the disk surface that were actually "engraved" by the contact, unless, as said, the drive has been kept spinning with the head "locked" in contact and the head arm has been made travel on all the surfaces. On multiple platters drives ONLY ONE surface of ONE platter (where the head crashed and that was used to "broom" all over) will be damaged. Otherwise it would be a multiple head crash, pretty much rare, i.e. since all platters are "double face" it would mean that all superior heads crashed on all superior surfaces and that all inferior heads crashed on all inferior surfaces, something that I would deem as very, very improbable. It is usually possible, but you will need to find a reputable recovery company and it will cost you a lot of money , to "transplant" the platters from your "deceased" drive to another "alive" one and thus recover at least part of the data. jaclaz

Of course NO. Size of the stick in bytes NEEDS to be a prime number, but not a Mersenne one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_prime Additionally and of course, the formatting has to be carried on with FULL moon, otherwise it won't ever work. Just TRY it! jaclaz

Read this seemingly unrelated thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=127593 http://www.msfn.org/board/funny-thing-happ...593-page-6.html If you don't have a "real" floppy, get a "virtual" one. An alternative is using Winimage to open the self-extracting self-copying .exe and save the contents to .ima (uncompressed) NOT as .imz (compressed): http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm jaclaz