jaclaz

I don't want to seem a hassler (actually I am one ), but still the Forum links DO NOT work properly. As an example see this post: hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/create-easily-second-win98-xp-same-computer-t118623-page-146.html (this link I made "manually") If you click on the actually "properly quoted" text in it, which links to: hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=findpost&pid=800275 the board gives you back: hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/create-easily-second-win98-xp-same-computer-t118623-pid-800275.html which is NOT the right post, but rather the beginning of the whole thread! The post is here: hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=118623&view=findpost&p=800275 (this is from copying and pasting from the popup when you click on the post #) which ALSO get's you back to the beginning of the thread: hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/create-easily-second-win98-xp-same-computer-t118623-pid-800275.html The only ways to link it seems to be: hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/create-easily-second-win98-xp-same-computer-t118623-page-18.html or hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=118623&st=18 BOTH these: hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&showtopic=118623&view=findpost&p=800275 hxxp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?act=findpost&hl=&pid=800275 that should work, DO NOT. The latter is the result of a Search for "all posts made by Herbalist" on page 9 there is the link to the specific post that returns the page where the post is (as opposed to the actual post). jaclaz

Among the others, the easyness of use. You have a volume which is represented physically by a file. You can copy/move the whole (encrypted) file to other media more easily than if it were a "real" volume (or partition). Other ones: FreeOTFE: http://www.freeotfe.org/ BestCrypt (COMMERCIAL): http://www.jetico.com/encryption-bestcrypt/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of...yption_software Since you have no reason for having pre-boot authentication, FreeOTFE is the "right" thing for you, and you cannot beat it's price . jaclaz

That doesn't matter. It matters if when booted under XP the drive where currently XP is is D:\ AND the First Active Partition (where Vista is is C:\ ). If you confirm the above, all you have to do is run (from Vista) bootsect.exe /NT52 on the C:\ drive and copy to it NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI (should for any reason they NOT be already there. (or format the partition from XP AND later copy to it the said files BEFORE rebooting) BEFORE doing the above, make sure that the BOOT.INI points to the correct partition, and/or have ready a NT boot floppy: http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy33.htm With either the correct entry or several entries of the type: y=0 means first disk z=1 means first partition In your case it should be jaclaz

There are N programs capable of backing up/restoring a RAW bootsector or MBR. Under DOS DEBUG is as good as any other. (there are scripts for it). One of the "forgotten" pages with some useful things for DOS lovers: http://web.archive.org/web/20021016205201/...wnloads/rec.htm If you know what you are doing: http://www.partitionsupport.com/utilities.htm Under windows, MBRFIX, or MBRWIZ (dos version also available) or HDHACKER or dsfo/dsfi of the DSFOK toolkit among tens of other ones do it allright. jaclaz

You don't want to use SERIAL (RS-232) voltage and signals! You need to use TTL levels (and signals). Check what adapter you have. Do a loopback test. http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate...-page-1730.html http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate...-page-1613.html http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate...-page-1661.html jaclaz

HXDOS: http://www.japheth.de/HX.html It allows (of course only some "simple") GUI apps to run. YMMV. jaclaz

...but remember that if there wasn't the Mac, you would probably be using Bob, right now : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html jaclaz

We wouldn't have FAT32 vs. NTFS or 9x vs. XP kind of flame threads? BUT, we would have some "is Mac Linux or is Mac BSD" or "linux vs. BSD" flame threads allright. No, it wouldn't change the world.... jaclaz

I guess that sixcentgeorge helpdesk98 may want to contact patchworks: http://www.msfn.org/board/open-sourcing-wi...99.html&hl= jaclaz

While you wait, you may use the time for getting a camera capable of making a picture that is not an out-of-focus blurring example! jaclaz

You don't need one. It's "default" (up to ten versions) in the program. Do read the docs. jaclaz

I had a friend telling me that elefants fly, but I was never able to spot one , maybe because I was using my binoculars upside down , or because I don't live in Africa or India. jaclaz

ABSOLUTELY NOT! That is the schematics for ANOTHER adapter! We have NO way from a distance to know which is which. You need to find it yourself, by using a multimeter and experimenting (or, as SEVERAL times advised to less-than-fully-knowledgeable people, buy a "real" TTL adapter, with KNOWN pinout). The only one that is obvious from the picture you posted is that the black wire (that goes to number 5 ) is the GROUND. Check the FIRST image here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=881965 Open the "other end" of the cable. Check that Pin1 in the picture is connected to the black wire (and to number 5 on the board). Check that possibly Pin5 in the picture is maybe connected to green wire (and to number 1). ...and so on. The Chip is a prolific PL-2303-HX, here is the datasheet/pinout: http://www.stkaiser.de/anleitung/files/PL2303.pdf verify with that pinout. jaclaz

AFAIK it is not available for download, it is sent to "elected" people (those that happen to have a drive Serial Number that Seagate thinks is affected). Call Seagate. Tell them you need it. Try convincing them. File should be named : brinks-3d6h-sd3b.iso as Aquafire reported. You might try how lucky you are with Google, but I would check with Seagate first. It is not clear whether this update is actually needed, in the past Seagate did release "bad" updates, maybe, just maybe, your best option is: get another drive backup everything live the firmware as is (untill it is clear whether an update is needed or not) jaclaz

Whether one agrees or not, it is nonetheless very well written and an interesting approach to the OS world and to "evangelists". jaclaz

Well, technically speaking, not strictly exact. WINE is a recursive acronym for WINE Is Not an Emulator: http://wiki.winehq.org/Debunking_Wine_Myths WINE allows support for Windows applications inside Linux, by giving it a replacement for the Windows API, it doesn't really emulate Windows, it provides an alternate environment where Windows programs (some of them) can run. jaclaz

I am sorry to hear about your experience. But you seem to have a "wrong" start point. A disk drive, ANY disk drive, is NOT "invulnerable" and NOT "everlasting". Fixing the firmware defect this thread is about, fixes that firmware defect and nothing else, the drive is NOT made invulnerable, nor it gets "super powers" through the procedure. Drives FAIL. They do fail for any reason in the world (and even one more). The fail unpredictably (don't get confused by all the fuzz about S.M.A.R.T., it is simply NOT smart, or not smart enough). There are NO real studies on the matter, AFAIK, if not the known one by Google: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6376021.stm http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/02/8917.ars http://labs.google.com/papers/disk_failures.pdf NOT having a backup of important data is exactly like playing Russian roulette with a Derringer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derringer We are now at post #196x on this thread, with 621,958 views, and more than 8 months have passed since first post. I reckon that, taking into account unuseful/duplicated posts, the other guides around, people doing the fix without reporting it, the number of drives that have been fixed "DIY" can be estimated in anything between 1,000 and 100,000. If we take the lower estimated boundary of 1,000 drives, we would need at least 45 reports of "afterfix" failures to "get even" with the Google study statistical analisys, which rates around 2,5% in the first 3 months and around 2% additionally in the nect 6 to 9 months. Since it is the lower boundary we estimated, I would expect more likely something in the over 100 reports to give to the failure a statistical significance and allowing the connection with the LBA0 or BSY fixes. I have seen reports of dead drives that were RMAed and fixed/replaced by Seagate itself, so I personally would not link the "bricking/debricking" with a later failure. I mean it is of course possible, but not probable, at least with the data vailable. jaclaz

Only too happy of having been of help. jaclaz

Look into the MP3 CAR forum. THey have the "reverse" thing for minlogon: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/winnt-base...l-minlogon.html they may have something that does what tyou want. These should be the actual answers: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/preventclose.aspx http://www.codeproject.com/KB/winsdk/AntonioWinLock.aspx http://www.msfn.org/board/disable-control-...ows-t57964.html jaclaz

Yep, that's it : Still, it wasn't "free", you paid for postage and handling $19.95, and it wasn't available "monolithic" as a download. Now that we have an "accurate" search string, some results can be found: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232681/en-us File list: 01 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238664/en-us 02 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238666/en-us 03 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238668/en-us 04 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238728/en-us 05 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238729/en-us 06 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238730/en-us 07 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238749/en-us 08 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238767/en-us 09 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238771/en-us 10 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238775/en-us 11 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238809/en-us 12 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238811/en-us 13 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238813/en-us 14 of 14: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/239011/en-us (please note how the MS guys in an attempt to make the life of their users an easy one completely FAILED to link on each page the next one and numbered the parts using results of a BINGO draw ) Cannot recover: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232753/en-us Some info: http://www.windowsbbs.com/windows-95-98-me...e-fr-win98.html http://www.helpwithwindows.com/windows98/start-011.html http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751504.aspx Acthual behaviour/screenshots: http://www.pctechguide.com/tutorials/Win98...all_Win98SE.htm This: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9905/10/....idg/index.html quotes the S&H to $19.95: This: http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/...-available.html quotes the S&H to $24.95: It's strange how the $$ apparently changed from 19.95 to 24.95, in the period may/june 1999. jaclaz

It is not that there is some confusion between the "real" "full" FE to SE update and the ServicePack 1? http://www.mdgx.com/win.htm AFAIK the "real" update was never "totally" free. Besides, are we talking of this one: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-98.../ref=pd_cp_sw_2 or this one? http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-re.../ref=pd_cp_sw_3 or something else? Like this "step up" mentioned here: http://forums.techarena.in/troubleshoot-98/1249828.htm http://www.cwdixon.com/support/win98_suppo...ntroduction.htm http://www.itnetcentral.com/tech/windows-9...dition-135.html Or is the step up one of the two above? Please take note how this article: http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/ar...s09%2F04s09.asp Rightly (at the time) considers the US $19.95+S&H a deal when compared to the time and expene for an online download. And this one, clears the fact that a lot of confusion was made at the time: http://windowsitpro.com/article/articleid/...-confusion.html To add some more confusion: http://www.geocities.com/~budallen/second_edition.html it seem like the version is actually called "Windows 98 Second Edition Updates" and cannot be installed if not from a booted 98 FE: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232678/en-us Windows 98 Second Edition is available in the following versions: Windows 98 Second Edition Full Version Windows 98 Second Edition Upgrade Version Windows 98 Second Edition Updates Windows 98 Second Edition OEM versions jaclaz

Sure nothing is wrong , but since this thread will be read by a number of people that might want to know how it should be done BEFORE actually doing it, I find advisable to post HOW it should be done to be on the SAFE sife, (as opposed to "better than" or "good enough"). The whole point is that the target (or audience) is most probably made of inexperienced users (the experienced ones won't come here to learn what they already know ), it is at least possible than an unexperienced user: won't be able to build a proper PE with all the tools will do somethng "wrong" compromising the data or filesystem to be recovered Having a dd copy of the thingy and working on the copy assures that if anything wrong is done (or a lightning strikes ) there is a possibility of trying again with another tool or another approach. Just another post of the "better be safe than sorry" series. jaclaz

What do you mean "will this work"? This only loads NT/2K/XP's on secondary drives, no more no less. If you want to boot other OSes, you can use GRUB ,grub4dos, PLop, syslinux, gujin, lilo, and/or the Vista BOOTMGR, special bootsectors and what not, there is more than one way to skin a cat, but you have to catch the cat first thing. (it's only a metaphor, no cat was harmed in the making of this post) jaclaz

Well, NO. If we are talking about "attempting to recovery data and who cares if it fails", it's allright. Otherwise, if the scope is "attempting to recovery data and be able to do further attempts", the "right" approach is in the already linked to post: http://www.msfn.org/board/data-recovery-to...45.html&hl= jaclaz

No one can say which it's best for you. Everyone has his/her own opinions on the matter, but as per today grub4dos and Syslinux have roughly the same features. I would say grub4dos, because I am more familiar with it, another member might say Syslinux, noone can say which one is better, and definitely NOT which one is better for you. FYI: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8546 Grub4dos Forum: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 Syslinux Forum (new) http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=92 And, just for the record, there is no match , Godzilla wins over King Kong hands down. jaclaz