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Topic splitted. Sorry, I hadn't been clear, what I meant was trying to separate things. Forget for a moment about WinsetupfromUSB GUI. Get RMprepUSB from here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=95 and run it. After, you will have a properly partitioned/formatted key. THEN, run WinsetupfromUSB GUI, it should find and let you use the pre-partitioned/formatted stick allright. Then, after WinsetupfromUSB GUI has finished, boot the stick on the Revo only once, and go on as per previous post. But I still need the answer to the questions I made, as I am not familiar with the Revo (i.e. if it comes with a recovery hidden or non-hidden partition) and cannot know if your particular Revo has been re-partitioned/re-formatted by you. jaclaz

I may have failed transmitting the message , BESIDES the ones DigeratiPrime suggested, I listed two other ones (and a reference comparison tables listng several more). Out off the cited two, I find FreeOTFE to be the winner with a distance estimated between 59.95 and 119.95 US$ (Yes, I am cheap ) In other words, not saying it is "the best", nor "better", just saying it is more suitable for your use IMHO, when compared to the Commercial solution. However, the inherent "portability" of FreeOTFE seems to me a good reason to prefer it even over truecrypt, and there are also pre-packaged U3 and portableapps versions. FYI: http://www.brighthub.com/computing/smb-sec...cles/41053.aspx jaclaz

Since it's going to be a loong thing, I guess it would be advisable to split Rob K's posts/replies to another specific thread. @Rob K Is it OK with you? Then, back to business. Rob K, there are a few things that are not clear. Please answer these questions: Is the internal hard disk of the Revo already partitioned/formatted? If yes how (how many partition, which types, which filesystem)? Start again from scratch, and yes, re-partition the stick with RMprepUSB and re-run the app. Boot from the stick on the Revo just ONCE. What do you see on this first boot? If you see the two lines: choose first one: Describe what happens. jaclaz

There is a very similar mechanism in this: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/batexamples_w.php#Wallpaper (intended to randomly change the wallpaper, just remove the parts that are not required/add the copy part) Batch: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/wallpapr_nt.txt VBS: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/files/wallpapr_vbs.txt jaclaz

You do understand that the comparison should be made with System 7, or with Norton Desktop, do you? Next thing will be that DOS 4.0 wasn't that buggy.... jaclaz

Well, NO, it doesn't work this way. What would we have (when old and retired, and forgetful ) to point you to, which reference would we have for "You remember that time you completely messed up...." NO. separate addresses are used. NO. You cannot mount an ISO to a HD. BUT, hopefully, in the future we may be able to load directly (NOT in ram) a HD image (.ima/.img) as HD. This is a requsted feature that will probably be added to Firadisk or to WinVblock: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8168 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=8168&st=11 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=8804&st=77 For the record there is a "filedisk" driver that should be able to do that as it has no size limits and is a real miniport one: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8468 (it seems like there are no takers for experimenting with this one) There could be a way through using graft-points (sort of hardlinks) in the making of the .iso. Sure, Firadisk (and grub4dos) can load HD images allright (actually it is what it is intended and used for) but you will have to deal to same "queer" behaviour theat were found (and solved) for the "normal" Install XPfrom USB. jaclaz

The rdisk(1) seems pretty much like the same (z-1) problem solved for USB-multiboot: http://www.msfn.org/board/boot-install-usb...4-page-240.html binifix4.cmd is both in the GUI thingy: http://www.msfn.org/board/30-t120444.html and in the USB_multiboot: http://www.msfn.org/board/install-xp-usb-t111406.html jaclaz

Cannot say. Try a CTRL+L: http://www.msfn.org/board/seagate-barracud...-page-1105.html and post results. If there was a problem you should get this also: http://translate.google.it/translate?u=htt...it&ie=UTF-8 before. See if anything in the "commands" help: http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate...07-page-15.html Doesn't CTRL+Z do anything? jaclaz

There is one reference here: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/tra...IubFJxWVKUOWlZA for a similar: about it using a PHISON PS2231 It is possible that your stick uses it or a PS2232 or a PS2233. You may try accessing it with the PHISON utilities: http://www.flashboot.ru/index.php?name=Fil...op=cat&id=6 Making DOUBLE sure to just READ info (if it works)- The "right" VID/PID should be 0951 16xx. jaclaz

You may want to consider that there may be REASONS, why we tried to code the approach in the "common sense advice" on boot-land : jaclaz

No, rest assured, only a "manufacturer tool" or something home made and VERY low-level can acces that. It is effectively the "firmware" of the controller, you won't change it "by chance". And I don't think that BootIt will do that. DTI/4GB appears like a genuine Kingston "name", but if it's a fake that would be normal. Should be this one: http://www.kingston.com/flash/datatraveler.asp?id=1 http://www.kingston.com/flash/datatraveler.asp?id=2 is it purple? Is physically similar to the pictures? I'll see what I can find with this added info. jaclaz

VERY good. Next one may be called PRE-ALPHA or PLANNING..... Wouldn't it be easier to check inside the chainloaded loader with a hex editor? jaclaz

Something like this: @echo off for /F "tokens=1 delims=" %%A in ('dir /a:d /o:gne /b /s') do cd "%%A"& rar x *.rar Reference: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.php http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfortokens.php Alternative: @echo off FOR /F "tokens=1 delims=" %%A in ('dir /b /s *.rar') DO ( CD "%%~dpA" rar x "%%~nxA" ) jaclaz

Good (or bad) that means that the problem is on your laptop. It can be of TWO types: hardware software If hardware it is possible that the USB controller of the laptop is gone beserk. If software it can be: a problem in the Registry for the specific stick a problem in the Registry for the USB bus In all cases next test is using another USB Mass Storage device on the laptop and see if the other USB stick (or hard disk) is detected properly. If yes, it's not a hardware problem and not a "generic USB bus" software problem, which shuld leave with just one possibility: a problem in the Registry for the specific stick See if the info here helps: http://www.msfn.org/board/logical-disk-man...pid-873733.html jaclaz

Use either Hdhacker or beeblebrox. Links/instructions here: http://www.msfn.org/board/screwed-up-usb-drive-t137990.html beeblebrox is offline right now, get it through The Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20080423005903/...byu.edu/~codyb/ http://web.archive.org/web/20060223003044/...broxntsetup.zip Basically you run any of the two program without the USB stick inserted and check which drives you have available. Then you re-run it with the USB stick attached and the added drive # is the one you need to use. jaclaz

You joking right? BCDW fixes hardcoded paths in setupldr.bin on-the-fly. You need to hexedit SETUPLDR.BIN yourself, unless you use \i386 (CD/ISO) or /minint (HD). jaclaz

First thing try same USB stick on ANOTHER computer and report what happens. jaclaz

Yes, you need to. For all that matters to grub4dos, an USB stick (a partitioned one, I hope you are not using a superfloppy one ) is a hard disk. Take your time reading in the grub4dos Forum: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 What did you use to partition/format it? Use RMPREPUSB: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=95 or any of the other ones listed here: http://www.msfn.org/board/4gb-iso-file-siz...93-page-17.html Are you familiar with command line apps? The post explains the 4 simple steps: download extract from .zip archive run fsz with given parameters run dsfi with appropriate parameters Which one is a problem? Making sure of the number of physical drive? jaclaz

The data you report is "strange" Kingston has VID 0951 or 2385 decimal, see here: http://flashboot.ru/index.php?name=iflash&...&pagenum=35 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1659 The VID 8086 appears like one of the "fake" ones. And yes, the data on: http://flashboot.ru/index.php?name=iflash shows a couple of results for 8086 27C8 8086 27C9 all "coupled" to different "real" makers, in one case "coupled" with: so it is very possible that the 27CB is the PID for a newish version of a "fake". 8086 is the code for Intel, according to the "unofficial" Linux list: http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids and Intel does not AFAIK produce USB thingies. If ChipGenius cannot detect (independently from VID&PID) the chip, I guess that you are stuck. But of course you can still use cfadisk.sys or dummydisk.sys. Where did you buy the stick? jaclaz

Hmmm, it is well possible that it is then NOT a LAB0 or BSY problem , but before giving up I would try again following CarterinCanada method: http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html including the removing of SATA power: and/or check the "variations" Aviko posted and/or the googlepages guide: http://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/ http://sites.google.com/site/seagatefix/Ho...le-instructions (which however also advises a power cycle after S.M.A.R.T. wipe) jaclaz

Everything is possible, however, unless you edited grldr, the choices are in menu.lst, and in menu.lst ONLY. If I were you I would (in this order): study a bit the grub4dos guide: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5187 http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/Grub4dos.htm wipe the first 100 sectors of the stick: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=4015&st=21 use the grub4dos toolbox: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7328 jaclaz

Sure, you can even boot from a Linux LiveCD a with a perl script to install XP, to keep tjings as simple as possible you could mount it in a XEN VM and remotely boot the PC through a VPN, for that matters , I usually tend to answer questions as they are asked: and the answer is: Yes, it is possible. Or, strictly speaking: Yes. http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollar...no-answers.html Had the question been: What is the best|easier|safer|foolproof|faster|recommended way to instal a second XP on the given situation? The answer may have been different. jaclaz

The fix you ran is for LBA0 problem. I.e. when BIOS sees the hard disk, BUT it sees it as having a size LBA of 0. If the drive is NOT detected, it's a BSY (busy) error that needs another set of commands. jaclaz

PLease DON'T (if it's "years old") . Use TESTDISK, which is surely up to date, most probably you just have an overwritten partition table: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk And comes both as Windows and Linux. jaclaz

There are some issues with the Forum software, that kind of link does not work right now. See here: http://www.msfn.org/board/broken-links-for...19.html&hl= http://www.msfn.org/board/broken-links-for...19-page-15.html These kinds of links appear to be the only ones working: http://www.msfn.org/board/create-easily-second-win98-xp-same-computer-t118623.html&st=27 http://www.msfn.org/board/create-easily-second-win98-xp-same-computer-t118623-page-27.html http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=118623&st=27 http://www.msfn.org/board/create-easily-se....html&st=27 http://www.msfn.org/board/create-easily-se...23-page-27.html http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...18623&st=27 jaclaz