jaclaz

Are you using a SD card through a USB adapter? Most (read ALL ) USB card adapters are set as "Removable". Thus creating a MBR on them it's not that easy. I cannot say if the HP USB utility or PEtoUSB can "work" with SD cards through USB. , that would be the first thing to try. You may want to try an indirect approach: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5000 not easy, not straightforward, but it should work. jaclaz

Try with Photorec. Part of testdisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk .doc and .xls are in the list of supported files. jaclaz

Yes. However my guess is that ponch won't like latest corrections : he suggested to use "Primary" instead of "Main", which is correct, where does "Principal" come from? jaclaz

I GUESS that "data recovery" programs try several times to read a given sector and create the lock. "Standard" procedure is the following: have another disk of same of greater capacity (better if two) copy/clone defective hard disk contents on new drive (better if twice) work with recovery programs on the clone This way if you encounter a problem or make a mistake you can simply re-image from original or second copy and start again. Suitable programs for doing the copy are "dd-like" programs that DO NOT attempt copying bad sectors and simply skip them. http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/ http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Dd_rescue Please note that "dd", "ddrescue" and dd_rescue" have different syntax. Some dd version have the option "noerror", which means that it will skip bad sectors. Cannot say if using any of these will "trigger" the HD error nonetheless. Under windows, besides the Cygwin port of the above, one could try: dsfo/dsfi, part of the dsfok package: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/ dd for windows (FAU edition): http://gmgsystemsinc.com/fau/ Or maybe some of the programs listed here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16534 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=100299 Once you have managed, one way or the other, to recover the recoverable, probably you can restore the drive to "normal" operation. According to Seagate , depending on the errors you get, a zero fill (by forcing writes to bad sectors encountered) may re-create the g-list: http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?loca...000dd04090aRCRD It's debatable whether the adjective intelligent is attributed to "operation" or to "drive", if the latter I find it largely inaccurate. It is possible that using a disk editor and forcing the write on single sectors (found as "bad"), will create the g-list entry, but it might be a loooong work, if the bad sectors are not a handful (please note the accuracy of my definition of this amount ) jaclaz

So we could also replace all those "main" partitions used in this thread by "primary" partitions. Yes we could , it would be more accurate, though I have already seen the term "main" as used instead of "primary", as they are synonyms: http://encarta.msn.com/thesaurus_561584400/primary.html http://www.synonyms.net/synonym/primary In any case it won't change the sense of the tutorial, the distinction between "main" (or "primary") and "logical unit of the extended partition" is clear enough , while exchanging MBR with bootsector appears as more confusing, and particularly on a topic where a lot of people appear to have not a deep enough knowledge. FYI: http://neosmart.net/blog/2007/bootsectexe-...or-not-the-mbr/ even the good MS guys sometimes happen to add to the confusion: jaclaz

...or maybe we are around the 8Gb barrier? BIOS/whatever use CHS and the files are beyond that? Seemingly unrelated, but not much : http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=5884&st=0 jaclaz

Maybe "most" would be more accurate than "everything"....or you would have had it working ...which means you were not able to... NO, you did not! Re read, slowly, this (see also below): http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=10482&st=3 Maybe naming the .iso 8.3 compliant might help. Also, you sure the .iso is smaller than 512 Mb? Menu is correct, you do not need the final boot command when using an entry in menu.lst (but it is needed when you enter commands one by one in command line mode - which is always advised when experimenting) Though this is NOT causing a blue screen, always make sure (or double sure) that the image is contiguous on disk: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=6985&st=5 http://diddy.boot-land.net/grub4dos/files/map.htm Actually there are tens or hundreds or "BSOD"'s, which exact STOP ERROR are you getting? Without knowing exactly the error you are getting, it would be tough, see if what I guessed solves the probelm. There is not a "copyright" or "trademark" on the word "livexp", mind you, but since it is used to name a specific Winbuilder project (which by the way allows to make a .iso chainloadable by grub4dos when mapped to (hd32) ) : http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=52 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4111 it would be nice if you call your build something else, just to avoid possible confusion to other members. Another thing you might want to try is to actually use the LiveXP project, as per Amalux's tutorial, which is known to be working and "automated", then see which differences there are between it (working build) and the one you made (not-yet-working build). jaclaz

I'll surprise you with yet a new notion : EMBR: (Extended Master Boot Record) http://www.ranish.com/part/primer.htm or EPBR: (Extended Partition Boot Record): http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ptedit.htm jaclaz

The point was that bootpart does NOT touch the MBR (Master Boot Record), it changes the PBR (Partition Boot Record) or bootsector. The MBR is first sector of the whole hard disk or PHYSICAL DRIVE, CHS 0/0/1, LBA 1 The PBR is first sector of the active partition, usually first one, first sector of LOGICAL DRIVE, usually CHS 0/1/1, LBA 64. You are welcome, just trying to avoid possible misunderstandings of less experienced users. jaclaz

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