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Or use bootpart: http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm to restore the NT/2K/XP/2003 bootsector and add a bootsector for win98 to BOOT.INI. jaclaz

Actually it is possible. Just for the record : http://msdn.microsoft.com/it-it/magazine/c...951(en-us).aspx http://www.codeproject.com/KB/winsdk/AntonioWinLock.aspx http://69.10.233.10/KB/system/preventclose.aspx And (possibly ) the EASY way, instead of trapping anything, make the trap point to "nothing": http://www.codeproject.com/KB/miscctrl/dis...spx?fid=1526462 jaclaz

@cluberti I wasn't meaning that IE (any version) or IE7 are worse than Opera or that Opera is better than any other browser around, in the sense that they are worse or better written or worse or better complying to CSS standard. I was saying that with Opera: I see the board's CODEBOX "properly" I can copy and paste their contents "correctly" I don't have "keywords" blue, double underlined and popping up ads This happens, besides MSFN, on boot-land and 911CD, and all the other main sites/forums I usually browse on. jaclaz

Did you clone disk signature in the MBR? 0x0000007b means "inaccessible boot device", generally due to a missing mass storage driver, but not only, it could be also the MBR or the bootsector: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc751278.aspx The NT/2K/XP/2003 relies on disk signature in the MBR to identify drives/partitions, including the boot one. See here for reference: http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/Win2kmbr.htm http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=19663 A tool you might find useful: http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm http://www.sysint.no/Nedlasting/MbrFix.zip http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=4530&st=7 Optional pseudo_GUI for it: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.net/index.html jaclaz

Why not on it's homepage? http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm A few (needed in my view) corrections you may want to consider: This WON'T affect the MBR, it will only replace the CODE of the bootsector, previously set to the XP one that invokes NTLDR, to the Win98/DOS one that invokes IO.SYS. Though in this specific context it doesn't make a difference, you should "make your mind" about using WINNT or WINXP parameter. Just for the record, and this is not at all a critic to your post , the method you describe is a bit "old-style" . BOOTPART.EXE was born more than 15 years ago, and while at the time there were no alternatives, today using grub4dos and it's feature of directly chainloading system files, it is not necessary to fiddle with bootsectors. jaclaz

Thank you for your kind words of appreciation of my opinions and contributions to this thread. FYI: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=18408 jaclaz

Which would create the need to parse each entry to remove possible duplicates.... or otherwise posiibly create a menu.lst with a couple dozens entries.... Are you getting affected by some form of featuritis too? jaclaz

Yes. It is however trivial to change the menu.lst of the last to be added item to include the entries for the previous ones, or in the case of VistaPE, changing the building Grub4dos .script to generate a "wider" menu.lst with a few TXTADDLINE statrements: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6468 Or again, open the §@ç#ing menu.lst with Notepad and add a few entries by hand. Or again, press "c" and enter a couple of grub4dos commands.... jaclaz

So much pointless harping over paint.net using the .NET framework (something that is shared by many apps, not used exclusively by one; it surely doesn't make paint.net "need 200 Mb of space")... Meanwhile you seem to have no issues over nLite and other apps using it (how come do I never see anyone cry over this one?) If they're already using nLite, paint.net will only take a couple MBs of space or such. Not that it's a mspaint equivalent or anything, but comparing paint.net to MS Office and OOo is simply ludicrous. It was intentional , it is a rethorical figure called hyperbole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole For the record, I have LOTS of issues about nlite using the .net framework, but nlite (and the requirement for .net framework) is for the install on which you run nlite, not for the nlited output. You will have to concede that it would be rather pointless to use nlite to remove (coincidentally ) 200 Mb from an install size, only to re-add them in the form of the .net framework+paint.net ONLY to replace MSPAINT.EXE and it's functionalities. Of course if you need .net anyway for other apps, that would be allright , but still to crop a screenshot from time to time a graphical app like paint.net or TheGimp are a bit overkill. jaclaz

VHDmount from Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 SP1 can mount VHD's http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2220 post #9 "static", NOT "growable" VHD's can be mounted with IMDISK (giving it the offset to the bootsector) or possibly with VDK (giving it the offset to the MBR or that of the bootsector). I am not familiar with VHD format, searching for the byte patterns with a file/disk hex viewer/editor on an actual image usually you can find them in a matter of minutes: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=2220&st=3 jaclaz

Sure, but you were curious about the reason why, and I did just as you did before, posted "other suggestions" , maybe you were unaware of the general idea behind using nlite, though the fact that it isn't named nbloat might have given a hint. Next time someone asks for a notepad replacement, everyone is welcome to suggest Microsoft Office or Openoffice.org suites, but I doubt that such a suggestoin would be gladly accepted. @davidd3145 Here are a few more tiny thingies: http://www.tinyapps.org/graphics.html And another one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastStone_Image_Viewer A self-contained, portable little app can usually be renamed, you could rename it as mspaint.exe and be done with it, cannot say if the above applies to any of the above programs, but you can always make a mspaint.cmd file invoking another app, possibly using cmdow or a similar utility to hide the DOS windows. jaclaz

maybe because you have to install .Net ? maybe because it needs 200 Mb of space? The idea of nlite is to reduce size.... This said, there are tens of small sized freeware apps comparable to MS paint, which are installable allright and that don't need huge runtimes. jaclaz

Which of course I could "revert" asking you on what sites/forums you think using IE7 IE, any version, is a good idea? jaclaz

So it seems like IE7 only. and you also have the "Monitor" in first post blue (and probably double underlined) but not in second post with IE7. jaclaz

I can see both your posts as they should with Opera. If I turn on the side panel (thus reducing available screen width for displaying the thread) BOTH boxes get the horizontal scrollbar. Same happens with IE 6, BUT with it, only in the first of your two posts some words like: Email Monitor Windows appear blue, double underlined and when I hover with the mouse over them an advertisement popup comes out. That alone is a reason for using Opera, but besides this obvious fact, definitely there are difference in the way clipboard data is managed by different apps AND codebox parsing is done with different browsers. But still that wouldn't explain the "missing" horizontal scrollbar. A glitch in the matrix? jaclaz

Related video from MS, link originally posted by allanf on boot-land: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=6982&st=2 http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/9...A8FA31/dism.wmv jaclaz

Still NOTHING like a possible answer, but it is also possible that an actual release of the board software may be (part of) the problem. The CODEBOX parsing has a length limit, on 911CD I often need to split (very long) .inf iles into several different CODEBOXes, otherwise it won't simply work. As well some years ago there was a problem with an unfortunately common enough character sequence, which I cannot remember right now, but that made posted .inf's non-valid. Can you try re-posting here the particular contents of CODEBOX that gave you problems? jaclaz

VERY GOOD find! It's what I have (failing miserably ) attempted to ask help with since a couple of years: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=1507&st=1 (for "normal" 2K/XP/2003) Maybe this can be somehow "retro-fitted"..... jaclaz

NOT what you asked, but just for the record: CODE and CODEBOX "boxes" tend to behave strangely with different browsers/different versions of browsers. I remember an not so old previous version of Opera that did exactly what you describe. OT, but related, there are known problems with copy and paste (different results using different browsers): http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...24539&st=33 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=6492&st=10 It seems like it is a problem with the way data is "saved" to the clipboard: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=6492&st=15 jaclaz

NO. You need to chainload the loader, not the directory containing it. i.e. this would work on a CD: title Boot LiveXP on CD find --set-root /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN chainloader /I386/SETUPLDR.BIN Please be aware that CaSe Of FiLeNaMeS is important, always try using command line and enter commands one by one using the [TAB] autocompletion of grub4dos: http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/cli.htm to make sure that grub4dos "sees" the file in a given CaSe LeTtErInG. But the above WON'T work if the /I386 structure is on USB stick (or other HD-like media) as the hardcoded path in this case is /minint. (and usually filenames are lowercase on HD devices), thus it will become: title Boot LiveXP on CD find --set-root /minint/setupldr.bin chainloader /minin/setupldr.bin There are workarounds, but you should do a step at tthe time. Please note that all the above info, as well as a number of answers to the question and doubts you expressed in your previous post, is widely available on either boot-land or 911CD board. Particularly, since you seem like liking grub4dos and already started a rather ambitious project based on it, you should take some time browsing the entire forum: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 Doing a multiboot with several differnt OS's is not something you can learn and succeed with in a couple of days, you need to get familiar with a number of concepts, which right now you appear being not (yet ) fully familiar with. I do like your "experimental" approach, and I do like people attempting to re-invent the wheel : http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?&showtopic=22554 but within limits.... You appear to me as "falling" in the typical "newbie" (NO offence whatsoever intended ) mistake: trying to have everything at once. If you do not mind, let's try to make some "order" in the flux of your thoughts by enumerating some "basic" (and also a few "not-so-basic") advices and facts. General advice: Always start with one, and just one tutorial and objective in mind (not two, not three, just one). Always follow at first attempt a reported to be working method or tutorial or guide WITHOUT introducing ANY variation, of ANY kind. Even if the result of the tutorial is not EXACTLY what you wish to do, at first attempt you better follow the method TO THE LETTER and "deviate" (temporarily) from your original goal. Once and only once you have succeeded in following that method and got to the expected result for that method, repeat it introducing, ONE (or very few) at the time, the variations you think necessary to reach YOUR goal. Specific OS advice: DOS has a number of restrictions about the way it can be booted, but also a few advantages (see below about image booting) NT based systems have far less Linux has practically none (IF you know how to configure it properly) Image booting. Quite obviously, the most "clean" way to organize a multiboot system, generally speaking and specifically for USB sticks, is to have an image of some kind for each OS as a "monolithic" file that you can boot from. i.e., in a perfect world, you could have a ROOT directory with: grub4dos menu.lst dos622.img win98.img pmagic.iso slax.iso win2k.img winxp.img livexp.iso .... .... etc., etc. Unfortunately this is possible only up to a limited extent. Basically: ANY DOS can be booted from an image SOME - particularly built - Win9x/Me's can be booted from an image SOME - particularly built - NT or PE based systems, with the use of specific files from Server 2003 SP 1 or R2 can be booted from an image - Only RAMDISK based methods are nown to work at the moment SOME - particularly built - Linux distro's can be booted froma an image, but unlike the above, with the right knowledge ANY Linux distro can be configured to boot from an image Another "clean" way, that you initially took, but from which you seem to have deviated, is to multipartition the boot device, installing each different OS to a different partition. Of course the two approaches can be combined, just as an example you found the hard way how two Linux distro's based on the same "core" do not "like" being together. Now the disclaimer: though I could probably be described: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day as B) this only applies when we are talking about the initial phases of booting and about DOS and NT based systems, with the notable, but irrelevant as I see it, exception I make for Vista . When it comes to Linux, I know next to nothing of the internal ways and how to configure them. This said some (hopefully ) answers: Yep, see above. You need some time to learn and plan ahead. There are three ways: hardcoded path find --set-root method uuid method This: could become: You can use a "specific" tag file, to make sure that grub4dos roots to the right place, as an example place an empty file "this_is_slax609_on_usb.tag" in (hd0,1)/slax609/ then have: Or use a tag file to tag a partition, like putting an empty file "this_is_hd_0_1.tag" in (hd0,1)/ then have: For usage of uuid, check the grub4dos_readme.txt. By the way, always use - unless told not to do so - LATEST available grub4dos build, that you can find here: http://nufans.net/grub4dos/ older versions are here: http://nufans.net/grub4dos/history/ Actually this is the particular "field" on which the greatest amount of info is available, or at least the one where the most info is avialable in the grub4dos forum. About Gparted, your best option at the moment is to forget about it, and get partedmagic, which is already build in a way that it is .iso chainloadable. Read these: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5041 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4902 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=6860 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5607 Take your time, and take it easy. jaclaz

Let's start form the beginning. Do you have a USB stick actually booting? (it doesn't matter which OS it is booting right now, only that it is booting) If not, the problem you are having is how to make that stick bootable. Once solved that, you can start thinking about adding to it grub4dos and multibooting. Which tells me nothing, unless you post some details. jaclaz

Yes, it may be the right thing, as long as you are seeking for the "easy" way. (other optins are slightly more complex) Just above your thread in the Forum: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=157 There are a number of "stickies" or pinned topics, second from top is WinsetupfromUSB thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444 Yep, that's life, you have to take risks (or use money to buy a "safe" external DVD player) . jaclaz

Well, the (very old) thread you linked to is about grub4dos, not GRUB. I guess that you can find what you want by simply reading diddy's guide: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5187 Particularly, the guide presents 9 (nine) different ways to install/start grub4dos, of which I advise you to use methods #3 or #4, if your boot partition (as it should) already contains a NTLDR/NTDETECT.COM/BOOT.INI, method #5 if your "main" start is Vista. Also checking the numerous similar threads in the grub4dos forum: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 might help you. If you have any specific question, feel free to ask. jaclaz

Sure, life is tough. I am not sure what you mean by "arrow driven text menu with radio buttons" Grub4dos has limited "graphical capabilities", though latest versions have gfxmenu enabled, here is screenshot (oldish version, without gfxmenu): And here one with gfxmenu: You can use arrows to select an entry and also program hot-keys. If you want something really nice looking (depending on your graphical capabilities, of course ) you may want to have a look at Aerostudio, which can use grub4dos "under the hood": http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=72 http://aerostudio.boot-land.net/ Here you can find a few screenshots on how nice it can be looking: http://www.damasgate.com/vb/810499-post31.html jaclaz

NO. As suggested in several places in this and the other threads, some cables for cellular phones integrate a TTL adapter, so that you could go that way, they should be easier to find. jaclaz