jaclaz

Yep, but don't worry, I was just joking. I'll give you another tip, see if the misterious connector has a "proper" name: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=8706&hl= it does look like a LFH60, but cannot say. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Force_Helix Matrox cables appear to be differently mapped: http://pinouts.ru/VideoCables/matrox_lfh60_pinout.shtml but maybe you can find and adapt some "surplus" cable... jaclaz

See here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43605 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=99220 jaclaz

Replied in fernan's DOUBLE post here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...807&st=1758 in as plain as possible English (but there the post made sense) . NO. NOT "exactly" this solution. The internal "language" of older disks is different. The connecting speed is different. The general idea may work, but you need specific information for the specific drive model. jaclaz

NO. NOT "exactly" this solution. The internal "language" of older disks is different. The connecting speed is different. The general idea may work, but you need specific information for the specific drive model. jaclaz

It seems to me like the nice source you found: http://verizonwireless.howardforums.com/sh...ad.php?t=832865 clears the matter remarkably well: First two DKU-2 and CA-53 are NO good. (NO chips inside them) The DKU-5 is reported to be somewhat defective. The original CA-42 is reported as NOT having a "Virtual COM driver". As I see it, judging from the cards you have in your hands you have two options: lose lose . I am confused if the original Nokia cable (NOT the CA-53 which is NO good) is a CA-42 or a DKU-5, I am assuming it is the OLD DKU-5. I would try the DKU-5 cable on a laptop (i.e. one without a hardware Serial Port) or try disabling the internal CPM port from BIOS on your desktop. From what is reported on the given site the OLD Nokia PC-Suite includes a driver that mounts the OLD DKU-5 to a Virtual COM port. Did you already try installing it and see if it actually creates this additional COM port? Alternatively, post the Vid & Pid of the "fake" Chinese CA-42. More generally USB solutions should be reserved to people that have NOT a desktop with a "proper" RS-232. A "normal" RS-232 to TTL converter, such as the one used in the re-known guide: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=133387&hl= http://www.mapleleafmountain.com/seagatebrick.html can be found for a handful of bucks, you don't have a problem with finding GROUND, TX and RX, and they do work. Let us reason on the workflow: PC (without Serial RS232 port): Hyperterminal->"Virtual Com Port Driver"->"USB driver"->"Real USB"->"USB to RS-232 Converter"->"RS-232 to TTL converter->drive (and back) PC (without Serial RS232 port): Hyperterminal->"Virtual Com Port Driver"->"USB driver"->"Real USB"->"USB to TTL converter->drive (and back) PC (with Serial RS232 port): Hyperterminal->"Com Port"->"RS-232 to TTL converter->drive (and back) Common sense (and Murphy's Law ) tells us that the shorter path is more advisable: 3. is "better" than 2. and 2. is "better" than 1. (in the sense that there are less things that may go bad). jaclaz

AFAICR WinsetupfromUSB: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=157 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444 Does work for x64 builds, but with SINGLE partition USB sticks ONLY. jaclaz

Is your Google broken? http://ro.lmgtfy.com/?q=Compaq+Contura+Aero Here: http://www.zenspider.com/~pwilk/aero/pinout.html http://www.zenspider.com/~pwilk/aero_stuff.html jaclaz

Well, this is how you read it, but it's not what it is written by the OP, which clearly stated he wants to INSTALL a "lite" XP. And BTW I've never seen ANY PE (warez or not) starting with WINNT32.EXE. Malice, like beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's nice to know we have a mind reader / ESP expert on the site. jaclaz

...and I can read all of the 5 Megabytes of data it contains wirhout an error... jaclaz

You ain't going make any career in this Pizza delivery business, mate. So now, that you have solved this, you are free to tackle next one : http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8468 BTW, also the CD driver is a Miniport one..... jaclaz

We do not have problems with Italian (I mean understanding it ), but nonetheless this is an international board/forum where English ONLY is used . Due to the general poor quality of online translations services, I doubt that it will be easy to find a solution to your problem. If you are not familiar with English, you would have more chances posting on Italian forums, here are a few: http://www.pctrio.com/Forumn/windows-vista-f56.html http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft...-windows-vista/ http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=127 [italian] Non abbiamo problemi con l'italiano, tranquillo. Ma questo è un forum internazionale dove si usa SOLTANTO l'Inglese. Visto che i servizi di traduzione online sono spesso molto poco precisi, dubito che si riesca a risolvere il problema. Se non conosci a sufficienza l'Inglese, hai migliori probabilità di successo su forums italiani, eccone alcuni: http://www.pctrio.com/Forumn/windows-vista-f56.html http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft...-windows-vista/ http://www.hwupgrade.it/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=127 [/italian] jaclaz

Well, personally, I am THREE generations out of date. I thought that using batch files in itself was a declaration in that sense of self-evident relevance. My remark was, as said, sligthly OT and a "general" kind of advice, I have no idea what victor888's intentions are, were or will be. jaclaz

Hmmm. not really "new", it's around since 2006: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=15994 Latest version, 140: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=15994&st=5 is regularly downloadable from it's homesite: http://www.znpc.net/avlgo/Avlgomgr_Eng.140.zip the version linked to in previous post, hosted on Rapidshare, is 6,666,985 bytes, while the original is 1,423,211 bytes contents of the two files are IDENTICAL, exception made for a binary file named "thankyou" dated 2008-11-08 with uncompressed size of 5,242,880 At first view this additional file is just junk (or maybe it is Chinese, for all I know ) but why downloading a 4x bigger file? jaclaz

As always, I would go for the cheapest you can get. In this case it even seems "better": http://reviews.cnet.com/4504-4_7-0.html?id...amp;tag=compare jaclaz

OT, but not much, at least initially, we were talking about PE 1.x (XP/2003 based) as opposed to PE 2.x (Vista/2008based) or PE 3.x (Windows 7 based). It should always be specified as different versions of PE's are not "the same". jaclaz

Check FAQ #10 here: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...SB/USBfaqs.html The 2.0.6 version works allright, setting the active partition. The 2.1.8, to be more accurate, appears to IGNORE the status of the partition, i.e. if it is already active (80 at offset 446) it leaves it 80, if it's already non-active, it leaves it like that (00 at offset 446). RMPREPUSB or any of the other tools listed here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...87993&st=17 take care of that part. Additionally, if using FAT32 there is a 4 byte patch needed to the bootsector, see here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=8528&st=21 also taken care of in some of the listed utilities. jaclaz

Yep , and I was referring to the software only solutions too : http://retro.icequake.net/dob/#soft NO ideas about storing the CP/M files if not in floppy images + VM, sorry. jaclaz

For ANY kind of floppies, you can use a dd-like image (this would be filesystem independent, and will keep - as an example - activation data for old DOS programs BUT won't probably be able to make valid copies of some copy protected floppies). but not the only one. Looky here: http://retro.icequake.net/dob/ Winimage can do format conversions for DOS. dcopy: http://users.telenet.be/jbosman/applications.html is a very useful software for dealing with floppies various rawrite versions: http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/rawrite/ For CP/M, best thing is using an emulator: http://www.cpm.z80.de/emulate.html (there are also several ones for Linux/Unix) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compu...mulators#CP.2FM Possibly zsim: http://www.jwi.de/zsim/zsimrm.html http://www.jwi.de/zsim/zsim.html is the best one around Or a VM, unfortunately the Qemu CP/M appears like NOT being wotrking. http://www.claunia.com/qemu/ http://www.claunia.com/qemu/details.php?id=00107 http://www.claunia.com/qemu/screenshots/cpm11/ It seems like working in VPC 2004, though: http://vpc.visualwin.com/ http://vpc.visualwin.com/Notes/CPM86.various.html Spellbinder coversion: FileMerlin: http://www.file-convert.com/fmn.htm or WordPort: http://www.file-convert.com/wpt.htm NOT cheap : http://www.file-convert.com/ordfrm.htm Or may be free online conversion? http://www.cometdocs.com/indexWord.htm jaclaz

Raystr Take a deep breath, don't panic. You DO NOT "click on the .iso". You burn the .iso to (if you prefer over) a CD, which means that you "fill" the CD with the contents of the .iso, NOT that you create a new CD with the .iso file in it. A .iso is an image file representing a whole CD, NOT a file to be written in a CD filesystem, but rather the CD filesystem. Link to a suitable app (advised) and how to use it given. Simply do what is clearly, step by step, detailed in the given links. jaclaz

I am not sure to get what you mean. You connect your USB stick/drive to a working, booted XP. You copy to the device mkmigrateinf.cmd or mkmigrateinf2.cmd, starting it from the USB device (that you want to have letter U: in MIGRATE.INF) mkmigrateinf.cmd (link ALREADY given): http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19663 or you make it manually, as described in the same link for a Fixed Device, by exporting the appropariate key in MountedDevices hive. This part : set Drive=%~d1 if %Drive%.==. set Drive=%~d0 set FileName=%~2 if %FileName%.==. set FileName=MIGRATE.INF set MigrateDrive=U: if not %~d3.==. set MigrateDrive=%~d3 more or less means in plain English: This batch allows for three parameters passed: drive letter (as currently mounted) for the USB device/partition name of the file to write letter to be assigned to the chosen drive in the chosen file If run woithout parameters, is assumed to be the same drive from which the batch is run is assumed to be MIGRATE.INF in the same drive and path from which the batch is run is assumed to be U: jaclaz

Here: imageburn IMGBURN: http://www.imgburn.com/ http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=screenshots#isowrite http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=61 It is NOT a "RAR archive", simply WinRAR has been associated to the .iso extension, as many programs can be, like Winimage, 7-zip, etc., etc. jaclaz

No ideas right now. Do the following: Open a command prompt, run in it: DIR /S D:\>C:\USBdir.txt provided that the USB stick is D: and your hard disk is C: (otherwise change drive letters accordingly). Take the resulting USBdir.txt and compress it to a .zip archive and post as attachment to the board. Someone may be able to spot if there is anything "weird" in your USB files. jaclaz

The "change" from "somename.xyz" to "somename.xy_" is normal. Most source files are compressed (and expanded during setup). The error is not however "normal". I wonder what could be causing it, as if you can see the vga.sy_ file in explorere it should mean that there is not a problem with the filesystem. I would try copying (overwriting the one on the stick) again vga.sy_ and also add vga.sys. (easiest would b eto use 7-zip to expand vga.sy_ to vga.sys, or you can use the command-line expand.exe: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888017/en-us Even if it works, it shouldn't be needed, though. jaclaz

Sorry for the headache. It's a side effect of taking the Red pill: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=133309 B) Yep , you know which is my instictive reaction when someone says "Wait, that is impossible!" . You are welcome. jaclaz

I lost your current situation. The dku-5 cable worked for you? captain0mike http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...807&st=1058 reported that it didn't work with his laptop, only with "desktop PC": http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry855465 Then you tried a (supposedly "no-name") CA-42: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry873903 and it didn't work as well, correct? jaclaz