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Well, personally, I am THREE generations out of date.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

You write CD_Multiboot_1. USB_Multiboot is for USB Multiboot. I.e. is a number of tricks collected together to make it possible to replicate what is already possible on CD/DVD on USB devices. To create a multiboot CD/DVD you can use any of the several guides available, since the changes needed are very few, here is the "historical" guide: http://flyakite.msfn.org/ Only addition/change I would make is the use of grub4dos or syslinux/isolinux as "main" loader: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=133110 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=129399 BTW, some .iso's can be loaded "as is" from grub4dos or Syslinux/isolinux/memdisk: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5041 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=92 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=8258&hl= Who knows? Are you using the modified NTDETECT.COM? See FAQ #3 here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=116766 If that one is not the problem/solution, start a new thread, posting DETAILS, like hardware used, source, USB device data, etc., etc. jaclaz

Happy to hear another story of success (and the indirect confirmation that using the proper tools, even if you may spend a few bucks more, is to be preferred over saving but having an "uncertain" result, like all the Nokia "real" or "fake" ones, etc.). jaclaz

...or more simply the Cd from which the repair install was performed misses the appropriate Mass Storage Drivers for the new motherboard? Is it a 0x000007b BSOD? If yes, try repairing install again using F6 floppy or integrating Mass Storage drivers in the CD. jaclaz

@victor888 MUCH better! the mbrfix one: With some "strange setup" (not the one shown above) from time to time I get a: !nk! was not expected: the diskpart version "hangs" from time to time, if re-used several times (possibly a timing problem), right now is stuck, so I cannnot produce an output of it right now, this is the output of the "previous" setup: If I may Besides the final "!nk! was not expected", a few remarks, of course just as some small advice in order to better the thingies: the Y in "Virtual drive Letters" is actually a network mapped drive, any way to differentiate it? "All drive letters:" is SORTed "Mounted drive letters:" is NOT SORTed "Cd/dvd rom drive letters:" is NOT SORTed it is more intuitive to see them in alphabetical order more generally, a columnar output for the re-mapping would be more readable, i.e. instead of: this would seem to me more readable: Thanks for the update. jaclaz

OK, let's try this (sorry for the delay): The attached zip contains 4 slightly different MBR's: tulert1P.mbr <-this is a "plain" MBR with one partition 0-0B-80-0-1-1-490-254-63-63-7887852 tulert1Php.mbr <-this is a same as above but with the "HP hack" tulert2P.mbr <-this is a "plain" MBR with two partitions 0-0B-80-0-1-1-489-254-63-63-7871787 and 1-21-00-490-0-1-490-254-63-7871850-16065 tulert2Php.mbr<-this is a same as above but with the "HP hack" Procedure is following: zero out first, say 100 sectors of the USB stick fsz 100_sectors.bin 51200 dsfi \\.\Physicaldriven 0 0 100_sectors.bin [*]copy the MBR to stick dsfi \\.\Physicaldriven 0 512 tulertxx.mbr [*]disconnect stick [*]re-connect stick [*]right click on the stick drive letter and choose Format (as FAT32) [*]copy to the stick NTLDR NTDETECT.COM and BOOT.INI (the BOOT.INI needs to have two entries at least) [*]try booting it is very possible that you get: a. nothing b. an error like: Disk error Press any key to restart c. booting works and you get up to the BOOT.INI choices if c. everything is good if b. try, using Beeblebrox to change the partition ID from 0B to 0C (from FAT32 CHS mapped to FAT32 LBA mapped) if a. try "next" MBR Once you have looped through the above unsuccessfully, re-do from beginning, but between 6. and 7. do the following: copy the bootsector to a file: dsfo \\.\x: 0 512 bootsector.dat run killchs: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=8528&st=21 on the resulting file restore the file to the bootsector: dsfi \\.\x: : 0 512 bootsector.dat Report. jaclaz tulert_MBRs.zip

Let me re-phrase: And explain: for all we know the USB to RS232 converter may output a higher voltage than the TTL specs, see here: http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/RS-232-usb.html jaclaz

What about using Winkeys: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000378.html http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enh...ts/WinKey.shtml and map the function to an unused Winkey combo? It should be possible to re-connect shift+del to something else, like Mozilla can do: http://purgecontrol.mozdev.org/ Or maybe remap SHIFT+DEL to something else? http://webpages.charter.net/krumsick/ I am not aware of a specific solution. jaclaz

Well. NO. You need TTL level signals. Serial output is NOT normally at TTL levels: http://www.arcelect.com/rs232.htm DO NOT connect directly a RS232 to HD. the "thing" connected to the HD needs to be TTL: http://www.interfacebus.com/voltage_threshold.html TTL uses much lower voltage! jaclaz

Only an OT one. i.e. found a way to unneededly put stress on system and hard disk. Compare with this: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html more comments here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=108779 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=125900 jaclaz