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that is NOT GRUB, it's grub4dos not "any" iso works with mapping to (0xff) or (hd32) See here for what is working: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5041 Cannot say about Ubuntu "8", 9.04 has been reported to be working: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=5041&st=20 This WON'T work, unless it is a RAMDISK build: title Start XP Pro map (hd0,0)/XP-Pro.iso (hd32) map --hook root (hd32) chainloader (hd32) boot You DO NOT need to add the command "boot" as last item in a menu.lst entry, it is implied (but needed when using command line). jaclaz

No, I don't think the issue in your case is caused by fixed vs. removable, DOS and Win9x/ME should ignore that, it is more probable some kind of "timing" problem. However there is a "switcher" that you may want to try (completely at your own risk , of course): http://www.ete.com.au/downloads/dmaonoff.zip http://www.ete.com.au/downloads/atcfwchg.zip BEFORE even thinking of using it, do take your time "around", particularly read: http://www.compuphase.com/mbr_fat.htm about "True-IDE mode" And here: http://www.addonics.com/support/faqs/faq-bootcf.asp jaclaz

I guess that one has to learn to dress "properly" and walk "unsuspiciously". Hey, wait a minute, wasn't this what our mommies always told us? I would pick some other examples to sustain the theory, however, both the ones you mentioned seem to me more like examples of lese majesty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lèse_majesté A couple of stars have been treated by some government officers just like they were "normal" people. I find preoccupying when a government officer treats "normal" people violating their human rights or dignity, keeping a known actor a couple of hours in the airport is nothing when compared to this: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/0...light/?apage=13 (where honestly the Government Officers after an initial hiccup, actually tried to solve the problem) jaclaz

It is possible. Not being an IT technician I have no way to know, nor would that count. However, I'll take the "ambiguous" and store it for future re-use. jaclaz

If you want to give some rest to your brain, use a GUI app. HDhacker: http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/ I personally like dsfo (part of the dsfok toolkit) better than dd: or jaclaz

OT, and JFYI, in this "strange" event: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43685 the direct intervention of the Federals (Secret Service) was reported as needed in order to luckily clear the matter. jaclaz

The CA-42 cable is NOT the best choice in the world: http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate...756.html&s= BUT read this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=878793 and the referenced post: http://www.msfn.org/board/solution-seagate...-page-1463.html Some cables DO NOT install a virtual COM port, and you need to use Teraterm instead of Hyperterminal with some. jaclaz

You are mixing together too many things, and possibly assuming too much. The symptoms you report are DIFFERENT for the two keys. First one seems like a "bad" controller (intermittent working). Second one sounds like a problem in Windows. First thing to try would be to zero out the first few sectors with a dd-like tool (presuming that both sticks can be seen as "\\.PHYSICALDRIVEn" by windows. See here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=4015&st=20 then you should get the appropriate Manufacturer Tool for each key and test them, see here for some reference: http://www.msfn.org/board/not-booting-wins...sb-t127184.html jaclaz

I'll try to type it slowly..... ...set .... your ....jukebox app.... as ....the... shell....instead....of...Explorer.exe Read on sites related to alternative shells to learn how to change the shell (and also find programs that do that for you). jaclaz

Well, it's your decision,but the idea is that you have EITHER: an already booting WINPE OR you make it booting solving manually the "some reason" problem you are having OR you use a tool to create a booting WINPE jaclaz

You can change the SHELL, from Explorer to something else. Google for shell alternatives, here is a start: http://www.msfn.org/board/best-alternative...ell-t45562.html http://shellcity.net/ jaclaz

@Gaastra Please avoid posting enormously long pieces of text in CODE tags. use CODEBOX ones or, better, attach the files compressed in a .zip archive. jaclaz

Sure, you need BOTH NTFS4DOS AND a USB DOS driver, unless you booted from the stick (NON NTFS) and the USB support is given by BIOS. Otherwise you could use an image (containing DOS and NTFS4DOS) booted from grub4dos. Or a Recovery Console image: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5316 jaclaz

Yes, this is a limit of the grub4dos command. Read here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=6119&st=35 You must think of dd in grub4dos more like as a command line hex editor than as a copy utility. It has it's uses, but not for what you wanted to do: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=7138&hl= jaclaz

Hmmm, and how long would you think it would take before we have posts like : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum http://www.lipsum.com/ jaclaz

Where's the download? I don't see it on the WUD page....it was 2 years ago, but I would like to check it out.....thanks. Reading the thread might help: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...89438&st=38 http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Fun/XP...r-Tweaker.shtml jaclaz

Well, the idea was to reduce work for Mods, not to make them able to go on holidays. Don't we already have Rule #2.a and Rule #10? Just make them stricter, if needed. jaclaz

BTW and JFY: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/913...n_their_way_out? Check #22, #23 and #24 : http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/913...mp;pageNumber=3 I guess the good guys at computerworld are SPYING on us! jaclaz

Maybe a "stupid" idea : Why not putting a minimum post AND elapsed time since registration to the board limit to allow access to the Win9x Forums in "write mode"? Something "reasonable" like 3 posts and 7 days since subscription ? Old time members won't have problems, new members will have to wait one week, during which they will have time to post something in here: http://www.msfn.org/board/introduce_yourself-f76.html This should : a. mitigate the intensity of work of the Mods b. allow people REALLY interested in joining the discussions to do so, even if they are "new" c. let "aficionados" continue as if nothing changed d. disincentivate "kids" from gatecrashing the party (usually the time span before an idea simply pops out of the brain of children is a few minutes) jaclaz

The "proved to be working in some cases and at least with one Sony Vaio" approach is to re-build a "standard" (or "standard enough" ) source, links here: http://www.msfn.org/board/do_make_bootable...er-t120423.html jaclaz

@Multibooter It is possible that the reason is that one. Still, I would test BOTH disk drives with one of those "Low level" head adjusting programs (they don't make much sense since floppies have NOT anymore the regulating screws to align heads, but they could tell you if by any chance a drive is misaligned or what) AND I would clean the floppy drive heads. Since I doubt you have anymore one of those floppy disk drive cleaning kits , you can go the "manual" way: http://www.computerhope.com/cleaning.htm#06 However, even if not "hi-tech" as this : http://www.cir.com/pc/clndisx/clndisx.htm They can still be found around, example: http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=floppy+di...g&_osacat=0 @Joseph_sw You remember the old times when a byte was a byte (made of 8 bits, each one accurately carved by hand)? B) Why in my day.... http://tinyapps.org/blog/2007/02/index.html and we LIKED it! jaclaz

I do not recall having ever seen anything similar to the EWF filter for 9x/Me. Since the memory footprint (and disk occupation) of Windows 9x/Me is particularly small for today's hardware standards, a RAMDISK based build should be your best option. You will need to read this thread (and links within it): http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12326 and this one (where an alternative Registry redirector is given): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2293 This one may also be of help: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16860 jaclaz

Of course it is entirely up to you and to the various Owners/Admins of the Board, but as I see it, a large number of people are interested still in Win9x issues, and closing the Forum would reduce the appreciation of a number of members. By "Archiving" do you mean keeping the threads in Read Only mode or backing up them and removing from public view? If the first, I guess that there will be no problems, except making unhappy a number of members, myself included. If the second, before doing that, I would advise to find an alternative solution, like if needed hosting them on another site, to let the "frozen" contents still available to the public. jaclaz

It is possible that some floppy drive is "defective" with 720 Kb. Most probably it is not a 720 Kb media specific problem. As you might remember, there were actually hole punchers (or instructions on how to drill and additional hole in 720 kb ones to make them 1440 Kb: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23027 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=23027&st=7 there were both for the "old" 5.25" and for the "new" 3.5", the one depicted here is for the 5.25": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk an image of a 3.5" one seems like rare.... ...essentially the actual magnetic support of both 720 Kb and 1.44 Mb diskettes was the same, at least when the 1.44 format became popular (it costed far less to manufacturers to produce the same thing with two different "cases" than to have two separate production lines). some more "vintage" info is here: http://www.angelfire.com/nh/secret/27disks.htm The formatting is VERY important on floppies, it is possible that you are using a "bad" formatting program. I always used VENUS to copy/format/re-format, at least for 1.44 ones, cannot remember if it's comaptible with 720 Kb.... Recently I found DCOPY to be very, very dependable. Of course both under "pure" DOS. In the good ol' times there were quite a number of DOS programs to "revive" defective diskettes, that generally speaking worked remarkably well. Right now I can't remember even a single one, but if you want to have a try at them I can do some research and see if I can come up with some. jaclaz

Maybe you didn't find the "right one", run on the strick Chipgenius and report manufacturer/controller used. If we find the correct manufacturer tool it is possible that the stick can be re-initialized. Besides being notoriously cheap , I do not condone giving up, you mean you are allright having been beaten 1 to 0 by an obscure piece of silicon? Chipgenius: http://www.mydigit.cn/chipgenius.htm http://dl.mydigit.net/2009/0406/chipgenius.html http://dl.mydigit.net/download.php?a_k=WAk...kwJUVUcUQFEXARR Don't worry about the Chinese , the app is mostly harmless: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=4661 jaclaz