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Just for the record. Errorlevel in NT based systems is a variable: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18512 http://www.robvanderwoude.com/errorlevel.php jaclaz

Life is tough. You cannot have BOTH an automated "latest" method AND know what it does, unless you take your time and study the evolution of it. (and possibly introduce your own changes/tweaks/whatever) If you want to learn HOW it was made, you'll need your time reading this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=61384 The USB_Multiboot cmd is the direct evolution of that. (with a lot of added features that you don't like ) Then there is the GUI version: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444 Then there is the "After having booted a PE" method, which wimb pointed you to: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=121446 And yet again there is the "old school" method, with some limitations, that you can find here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16713 More or less they are all derivatives of one or the other of the items in the "initial" list of possible methods: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=81788&st=6 probably as a coincidence, together with the FAQ's and the largely ignored "Thank you" threads, they are mostly "stickies". Additionally, if you have a U3 kind of stick, there is this one: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=121502 Noone is the "best" one, each one has it's own pros and con', you have two choices: take the blue pill and choose any one of them and use it "as is" take the red pill and take part to the game http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redpill Which one are you gonna take? The rabbit hole is deeper than you might think. BTW, should you take the red one, once you have become familiar with the method(s), you might find interesting this thread: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=7138&hl= jaclaz

Some thoughts, not really technical. Seagate is not the Devil. (though it closely resembles him ) Hard drives break, due to a number of causes. The more the technology of the hard drive is "revolutionary", the more the capacity of the drive increases (meaning that it works with smaller tolerances, as data is packed in smaller space), the more the drive "series" is "new", the more it is likely that it may fail, until the technology has been thoroughly tested and has become "dependable" (which is usually an antonym of "revolutionary"). These could be added to Murphy's Laws: Hard drives fail. No matter what you do, they will fail. They will always fail in the exact moment they can make the most damage, i.e. in the only day of yur life you didn't backup data. Seagate has made two mistakes, as I see it: produced the drives with a faulty firmware (which can happen to everyone: "Let the person among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." ) managed the resulting issue in the worst possible way, misinforming or not-informing customer using senseless censoring on their board, etc. etc. From this second, very very very big mistake they did to say that whatever they do is evil, there is quite a bit of difference. Not every Seagate drive fails. Not every failing Seagate drive fails for reasons connected to the faulty firmware. Not necessarily Seagate will lie to you when they state that the problem is not connected with the faulty firmware. This said, US$ 2,900 seem to me like an awful lot of money. In your case I would get the drive back and ask a "second opinion" at another data recovery firm, if you value your data. It is possible that you can get your data back for a much smaller price. If you cannot afford the expense (and thus you have nothing to lose but your data ) I would try the "hand made" solutions provided in the thread to fix the firmware/BSY issues and then see if anything changes, but clicking sounds usually are symptoms of what the Recovery Firm told you, a hardware problem, that could be actually totally non-connected to the firmware problem. jaclaz

In Grub4Dos, I have tried using "chainloader /bootsect.bin", and it just comes up with the error in the screenshot. What am I doing wrong, and how can I make just work? M What is "bootsect.bin"? Is it a "CD no-emulation bootsector"? (A 2048 bytes file)? Or is it a HD-like bootsector? (A 512 bytes file)? IN BOTH CASES, you do not use bootsectors to load a BartPE. Grub4dos has some advantages over other bootloaders, as it can completely bypass ANY bootsector. You directly chainload the OS loader. I.e. and this should have been clear enough on the Forums and docs I pointed you to, here are a couple examples: title some flavour of BartPE root (cd) chainloader /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN or title some flavour of BartPE found find --set-root /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN chainloader /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN Please take note that grub4dos is CaSe SeNsItIvE on CDFS filesystem! however check these: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19124 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7173 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...18045&st=25 jaclaz

Because OP is using: a WinPE based on XP SP2, which should mean WinPE 1.x? jaclaz

Do you mean Workbook protection (i.e. the password that prevents opening the .xls file)? Or the Cell Protection (i.e. the password that prevents editing "locked" cells)? Also WHICH Excel version is it? FYI, FIRST result in google for "password excel": http://www.straxx.com/excel/password.html jaclaz

No prob. jaclaz

Read here then: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=22917 Links to "Full XP on USB" in second part of my post: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=22917&st=1 jaclaz

Happy to hear a report of success. jaclaz

I'll try again : post the actual commands you used and the error you had. I know which commands to use, and have no errors. You have the problem, not me. Right, and you think that the Holy Spirit ( or the Devil )will change the mappings in BOOT.INI for you? jaclaz

I expected as much , that's why I gave you a possible alternative too. I am however curious on how it's your current setup working. Is it a derivative of this? : http://bootcd.narod.ru/bcdw_e.htm#ini_menu_bc_parameters http://bootcd.narod.ru/bcdw_e.htm#dos4bcdw The UBCD getargs works in a similar way to BCDW_CL.COM .... jaclaz

You are messing with grub4dos, NOT GRUB. WHICH complete set of commands (including "map") are you using? WHICH error? Please posts the contents of your BOOT.INI. Also, read this: http://www.msfn.org/board/BOOTINI-and-diff...ive-t25365.html While "messing" with the BIOS you are probably changing hard disk order. jaclaz

Yep but maybe Maelstorm does not suffer from such a limitation. jaclaz

Instead of the USB CD-ROM, won't it be easier to use a stick? There are several methods documented for sticks, the following can be used for 2K allright: simplest option would be that of either using the OLD method with WINNT.EXE (and later if needed CONVERT.EXE), along the lines of this: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16713 or, if you have the availability of a PE of some kind, to use WINNT32.EXE, after having copied the whole \I386 to HD. The other option is probably to change the settings for the drivers, but I don't seem to remember a documented procedure for CD's. Most probably these methods: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=157 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=111406 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=121446 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=121446 work for 2K also, though maybe some minor things need to be adapted. jaclaz

But, on the other hand, it depends on the species you belong to : http://tsanda.wordpress.com/tag/nature/ However ilko_t is pefectly right, it's such a rare thing to find a good guinea pig! jaclaz

I've never seen this kind of usage. Why don't you simply add "startup.bat" as a command in autoexec.bat? Read this seemingly unrelated (and longish) thread (dedicated to the translation and fixes made to convert UBCD isolinux/syslinux syntax to grub4dos): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6119 It is possible to pre-assign a parameter via grub4dos. Maybe you can use a similar method as the one used in UBCD. jaclaz

Yep. But to summarize: A few tens of thousands of people have used MkMigrateInf2.cmd successfully. MkMigrateInf2.cmd did not work on 1 (one) - your - machine as it had a somehow defective setup/Registry. cdob kindly modified the batch (MkMigrateInf_b.cmd) to (hopefully) insert a "correcting step" only needed on one machine out of several tens of thousands. Once you have fixed the Registry entries, "normal" MkMigrateInf2.cmd would (should) work as well. So, as I see it , it is a working workaround , but it doesn't tell us WHY you are getting 8& and 9& instead of 7& like all the rest of the world. jaclaz

just forget the word "switch". get the "switch", put on it a really nicely handwritten stick with this text: Then connect all your RJ45's to your new HUB, and live forever happily..... jaclaz P.S.: Read these: http://www.duxcw.com/faq/network/hubsw.htm http://ask-leo.com/whats_the_difference_be...d_a_router.html

Completely unrelated (but not much ) and JFY: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=131103 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...31103&st=11 jaclaz

Definitely better laugh of the day! jaclaz

Hmm, @gadget I may be wrong , but I don't think that WinPE 1.x is much different from BartPE or a Winbuilder PE. @Maelstorm The one you managed to build appears to be the "old" 1999 Windows 2000 sample driver, that AFAIK has a lot of limits, and has at least THREE different "stages" of evolution, the Christian Ghijselinck's/QSoft professional version you found: http://www.ramdisk.tk/ http://members.fortunecity.com/ramdisk/RAM.../ramdiskent.htm and the "old" but still better than the MS "sample" freeware version here: http://www.freeramdisk.com/ http://members.fortunecity.com/ramdisk/RAM...ramdiskfree.htm And newish "Gavotte RRamdisk.sys": http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4064 More resources: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=1507 jaclaz

And, AGAIN , you got the migrate.inf for a fixed drive. You need to open a Command Prompt window and run it giving it a parameter, i.e. the drive letter that currently your USB sticks has. Just as ilko_t made you run it before : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...31770&st=29 jaclaz

FYI, I've often heard about flying elephants, not only recently..... I would say post a Legal Link Now or Forever Hold Your Peace.... jaclaz

Yep, but initially you didn't state you wanted one for PE 2.x, and geek gave you a link to a Bart PE (read Win PE 1.x) one. Maybe this works on WinPE 2.x: http://www.mattcollinge.co.uk/ http://mattcollinge.wordpress.com/software/power-meter-plus/ or this: http://osirisdevelopment.com/index.html jaclaz

My guess is that if our friend MdgX managed to install them on 98Se (from Me), there are good chances that you can do the same from XP SP2 to SP1.0a: http://www.mdgx.com/98-5.htm#KRM9S http://www.mdgx.com/9s2m/READ1ST.TXT The guys on the referenced thread that thought to get away with three exe's/dll's were dreamers and definitely NOT connoisseurs of MS way of making apps. I would try with the whole lot of files: 3. 5 WinME Internet Zone Games [a.k.a. MSN Gaming Zone] NOT available with Win98 SE into C:\Program Files\GameZone [default]: Backgammon, Checkers, Hearts, Reversi + Spades: => C:\Program Files\GameZone [default]: BCKG.CHM CHKR.CHM HRTZ.CHM RVSE.CHM SHVL.CHM BCKG.DLL BCKGRES.DLL CHKR.DLL CHKRRES.DLL CMNCLIM.DLL CMNRESM.DLL HRTZ.DLL HRTZRES.DLL RVSE.DLL RVSERES.DLL SHVL.DLL SHVLRES.DLL UNIANSI.DLL ZCOREM.DLL ZEEVERM.DLL ZNETM.DLL ZONECLIM.DLL ZONELIBM.DLL BCKGZM.EXE CHKRZM.EXE HRTZZM.EXE RVSEZM.EXE SHVLZM.EXE ZCLIENTM.EXE How to play these Internet Zone Games: Start button -> Programs -> Accessories -> Games -> GameZone -> run one of the 5 game shortcuts listed above. then profile the app with dependency walker: http://www.dependencywalker.com/ and with procmon: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896645.aspx To find what else migh tbe missing ("common .dll's, Registry Entries, etc.) However, you might be interested in this: http://www.redtopbg.com/news/msn_rip.php jaclaz