jaclaz

There is NO sense in using the percentage as an indicator of the need of defragmenting (within limits). It depends also (and with more relevance) to the frequency with which a file is accessed. Let's make an example: you install a system from scratch, fragmentation will be at it's lowest possible level then you ADD applications or data, fragmentation of the ADDED application or data will be anyway 0 (zero) BUT any pre-existing file updated/replaced (and enlarged) during the process will become fragmented, including the Registry then, in the course of normal usage of the PC, you DELETE some files then, in the course of normal usage of the PC, you CREATE new files then, in the course of normal usage of the PC, you ADD informations to existing files It is rather obvious that if you have a rather large and heavy fragmented data file, say an AutoCAD drawing, which you access once every few weeks in order to print a copy of it, the influence of it's fragmentation will be totally negligible, same goes for a .avi or .wmv file that you watch once or two in a lifetime. But when you have a frequently accessed file, like the Registry (which is often fragmented), if you use a "dynamic" swap file placed in the SAME partition you have your system, in case of major updates from MS when system files are updated, the impact of fragmentation can be of relevance. Besides sysinternals contig.exe a file-based (as opposed to disk-based) defragmentation utility exists: http://wincontig.mdtzone.it/en/index.htm that can help in analyzing (and solve ) "partial" defragmentation problems through a nice, easy GUI. jaclaz

Sure . See if reading "between the lines" of these: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19663 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=8233&hl= is enough to get you started. It might be advisable to start a new thread for this specific topic (and post here a reference to it). jaclaz

Seems to me like a "ground" problem of some kind (or transmission speed set in Hyperterminal) . jaclaz

This entry is however "wrong" (though working ): once you map a drive to something else, you need to map --hook in order for the re-mapping to be "fully" effective: title load NTLDR of Windows XP on (hd1) fallback 1 map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) map --hook root (hd0,0) chainloader /ntldr savedefault --wait=2 See this: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=2568&st=7 jaclaz

It must be VERY WELL hidden. Can you explain where it is found? Sure, never said that it wasn't, though I personally find (for the GUI version) the requirement of .Net unconvenient. jaclaz

Has anyone ever experienced finding a machine rebooted (and all running programs closed) with a nice message by Windows Update that a reboot was needed? jaclaz

And what if your BIOS does not have this feature? However I was replying to 1chaoticadult : jaclaz

And it outputs a .ISO? jaclaz

Malicious board member FAQ: Q:How can you tell if other people actually clicked on a given link? A:You post a wrong one and see if any protest arises! Sorry , clearly I made a 1 too short character copy before pasting. jaclaz

Let's do baby steps then. Open a command prompt. Type in it DIR C:\*.avi /B /S and press ENTER This will make a list of all .avi files in C:\ Now type: FOR /F %? IN ('DIR C:\*.avi /B /S') DO SET Filename=%? and press ENTER This will make a list of all .avi files in C:\ and for each item in the list will set the variable Filename to the actual found filename. Now, assuming you have a .avi file named myfile type: FOR /F %? IN ('DIR C:\*myfile.avi /B /S') DO SET Filename=%? and press ENTER This will make a list of all files named myfile.avi files in C:\ and for each item in the list will set the variable Filename to the actual found filename. You just add some error control and an input interface and you are done: @ECHO OFF ::FINDFILE.CMD small batch file by jaclaz to find a given file SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SET wanted= IF %1.==. ( SET /P wanted=Please input a filename, and press ENTER: ) ELSE ( SET wanted=%* ) CALL :splitinput "%wanted%" IF NOT DEFINED wantedname GOTO :EOF FOR /F %%? IN ('DIR C:\*%wantedname%%wantedext% /B /S') DO ( SET fullfilename="%%?" ECHO File %wantedname% was found with extension %wantedext% in: ECHO !fullfilename! PAUSE &GOTO :EOF ) ECHO File NOT found!&PAUSE GOTO :EOF :splitinput IF %1.=="". GOTO :EOF SET wantedname="%~n1" SET wantedext=%~x1 IF NOT DEFINED wantedext SET /P wantedext=Input extension and press ENTER or just press ENTER for [.avi] IF NOT DEFINED wantedext SET wantedext=.avi IF NOT %wantedext:~0,1%.==.. SET wantedext=.%wantedext% GOTO :EOF Please note that in case of several copies of the same file "myfile.avi" OR with a number of filenames like: "this_is_myfile.avi" "23myfile.avi" "anothermyfile.avi" etc. The batch will output ONLY first matching occurrence (to avoid continue scanning drive once occurrence is found). jaclaz

FYI, XPlite works with a different approach from nlite. Basically you install a FULL system, and later remove what you don't want: http://www.litepc.com/xplite_manual/ http://www.litepc.com/xplite_manual/index....?quickstart.htm @iceflier Read this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=11946 and this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=124220 jaclaz

@beats YEP. But try timing how much it takes using dir in a batch FOR loop and compare it with the mentioned command line app. jaclaz

Yep. But not on all motherboards/BIOSes, some simply do not give any USB support if the "boot from USB" is not selected in BIOS. One could also try the BOOT.INI "signature" Syntax, I seem to remember that it worked on some motherboards, at the time of the initial tests with Dietmar. jaclaz

Any reason for not wanting to use a command line application? Are ALL the drives/partitions formatted as NTFS? If yes, looky here: http://ndff.hotbox.ru/en/ I am not sure to have understood what you mean, can you post a more detailed description of WHAT you would like to do (as oppposed ot HOW you think it should be done) ? jaclaz

Not actually "dangerous", simply not appropriate to your actual hardware. Get the PID & VID of the stick, use Chipgenius: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=4661&st=0 See if you can find anything for it here: http://flashboot.ru/index.php?name=iflash (Russian , but still easier than Chinese ) If you cannot find anything, post PID & VID and any relevant info Chipgenius finds and I'll try and help you in finding the appropriate Manufacturer's Tool. jaclaz

Read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=134639&hl= More alternatives: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=100299&hl= jaclaz

Yes, but it WON'T work. The ONLY KNOWN alternatives have been listed: The above (IF it works on your particular motherboard) is a "generic" solution, the following: Will ONLY work for a given NT based OS ("full" XP or PE). jaclaz

Re-reading the OP post, it seems like all is needed is to avoid the shifting of letters? That would be solved by assigning the d:\ letter statically with Disk Management to the second disk/partition. jaclaz

NO. NO. But it doesn't matter, since also the BIOS USB support is disabled unless you choose in BIOS to boot from USB. Since it's NO, null question! You missed the alternative question: You add to it an entry loading grldr of grub4dos. From grub4dos you load an image containing PLoP. PLoP has it's own USB stack that will hopefully allow booting from the stick. See on boot-land: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/ http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 Search for posts with keyword "PLoP". A couple ones: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6330 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6371 Alternatively, and IF the usb stick you want to boot contains a XP or PE of some kind, you may want to try the "XP Kansas City Shuffle" or "Fake Signature Method", search for them on 911CD and boot-land. jaclaz

YEP. here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=90495 2K, not XP, but there should be not much difference. Possibly you would need to stop a couple of services, like VSS or similar things if doing it from a "live" system. Doing the changes "offline" would be probably more advised. jaclaz

Because you wrote the following: Which I read (actually as it is written) that you took as the reason why it should boot, the example that previously more than one keys were succesfully formatted and booted with linux. This is totally not relevant, as I am trying to explain to you. The SAME stick IMPROPERLY partitioned/fomatted may work on one motherboard and not on another. The SAME motherboard may work with one IMPROPERLY partitioned/formatted stick and NOT with another stick. It is quite difficult to create a "PROPERLY" in the sense of "bootable on ANY motherboard" partitioned/formatted stick. I am also sure that you can boot from a properly partitioned/formatted USB key, ilko_t and myself are trying to tell you that in some cases: the partitioning/formatting performed by the HP tool can be NOT working that due to these problems a number of different procedures/programs have been developed that you should TRY using one of the given recent bettered methods/utilities, to which links were given You are of course perfectly FREE to avoid following the advise given and remain convinced that you need to format the stick as FAT. YES. http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollar...no-answers.html jaclaz

Have you tried enlarging it? See this example by Mdgx on how a boot.ini can be http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...129604&st=8 "enlarged" by adding lines of text BEFORE first section. BTW, WHICH version are you using? Get LATEST here: http://nufans.net/grub4dos/ Absolutely NOT relevant to the problem you are experiencing, but you can use relative paths: title Windows XP SP3 - Phase 2 root (hd1,0) dd if=/boot.ini of=/boot.ini bs=1 skip=22 count=1 seek=69 chainloader +1 jaclaz

Pfff, now I see. You want to find the way Xp generates the value 7&16f722a4&0&RM in your example , and find a way to generate it under Windows 7. What does Windows 7 has in here?: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{53f5630a-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\DeviceClasses\{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b} HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Enum\STORAGE\RemovableMedia jaclaz

Well, if you thought that booting Linux on another key formatted with FAT is enough proof that ANOTHER key formatted as FAT32 or NTFS and witha Windows XP MBR and bootsector will boot, by now you should have been convinced by the evidence. You may want to read FAQ #10 here: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...SB/USBfaqs.html I don't understand the question. I gave you a link to FOUR different and LATEST approaches to increase the bootability of a stick, try first one: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21702 http://www.fuwi.ethz.ch/files/USB-Boot_Utilities.zip if it doesn't work, try second one, etc, etc. As ilko_t suggested, zeroing out first few sectors is a guarantee that the tools "start from scratch" avoiding the (unprobable but possible) "influence" of previous "wrong" data on the stick. jaclaz

From the given site: Here: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm Zip: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM%20...20Certified.zip Installer: http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/CDM/CDM%202.04.16.exe No problem at all, it will create a "fake" COM port (just like the USB to RS-232 converter talked about in the thread). jaclaz