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Something that may be of use: http://www.codetwo.com/pages/freeware/pst_ghostbuster.php http://www.kopf.com.br/outlook/ http://www.olfolders.de/Lang/English/PSTCopy/pstcopy1.htm http://www.olfolders.de/Lang/English/OLfix/ http://www.runpcrun.com/deleted-emails-outlook-pst (not necessarily useful, just sharing my links on the topic) jaclaz

It strange, however. If you have windows on C:\Windows, these two should be exactly the same: maybe something has changed value to %systemroot%, try running in a console SET SY You should get: jaclaz

See if any of the links here help: http://www.giga-byte.it/download/mb/bios/20332/ If not, try googling for: motherboard_bios_ga-ep35-ds4_f6a.exe jaclaz

Ohhh, I see. Here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=8381 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25110 (searching for "multi-cd" instead of "multi-disc" might help you next time ) Though I seem to see nowadays a "Catch22" like: 1) any PC that will need more than one CD to install has a DVD drive 2) if you have a DVD drive you don't need multple CD's jaclaz

Try this: ECHO OFF FOR /F "tokens=3 delims= " %%A IN ('REG QUERY "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders" /v Personal') DO SET PERSONAL="%%A" SET PERSONAL ECHO Expanding variable with CALL to SUBROUTINE CALL :Expand_var %PERSONAL% ECHO Expanding variable with CALL SET CALL SET PERSONAL=%PERSONAL% SET PERSONAL ECHO CD %PERSONAL% pause GOTO :EOF :Expand_var ECHO CD %1 GOTO :EOF jaclaz

@max1969 Maybe you are interested to these comment of mine on similar matter (nlite): http://www.msfn.org/board/ideas-nLite-works-t124220.html http://www.msfn.org/board/ideas-nLite-work....html&st=10 http://www.msfn.org/board/Petition-Nuhi-t119463.html jaclaz

Boy, do I love Google translate!: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=ht...en&ie=UTF-8 This is great: Nathaniel Hawthorne would be very glad for this publicity to his book.... jaclaz

Most probably the OS was installed on a NTFS COMPRESSED filesystem. (it is possible that at some time during the life of the PC the NTFS filsystem was compressed) When you copy files to a compressed filesystem they get (guess what?) compressed. Unfortunately NTLDR must be uncompressed in order to work (boot): http://www.madboot.com/index.php?option=co...msg18;topicseen http://centralpcrepairs.co.uk/index.php/20...Fix-for-XP.html If the e.machine Recovery CD does not have a Recovery console option, use this: http://tips.vlaurie.com/2006/05/23/recover...out-an-xp-disk/ More info/tips/tricks here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=2254 (for the record, if you had asked for help BEFORE "removing everything" you'd probably still have your data) jaclaz

@Victor888 I know you'll simply LOVE this snippet: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS GOTO :Start ::THIS IS LINE #5 in this batch select disk 0 detail disk EXIT ::THIS IS LINE #9 in this batch select disk 1 detail disk EXIT ::THIS IS LINE #13 in this batch select disk 2 detail disk EXIT ::THIS IS LINE #17 in this batch select disk 3 detail disk EXIT ::THIS IS LINE #21 in this batch select disk 4 detail disk EXIT ::THIS IS LINE #25 in this batch select disk 5 detail disk EXIT ::THIS IS LINE #29 in this batch select disk 6 detail disk EXIT :Start FOR /F "tokens=2,7" %%A IN ('ECHO list disk^|diskpart^|FIND "B"') DO SET DP_disks=!DP_disks! %%A FOR %%A IN (%DP_disks%) DO ( SET /A DP_Line#=%%A*4+5 FOR /F "skip=8 tokens=1,2,3 delims=: " %%B IN ('MORE +!DP_Line#! %~dpnx0^|diskpart.exe^|FIND /v /i "DISKPART"') DO ( ECHO working.... ECHO .... ECHO %%B %%C %%D IF %%B.==Disk. SET DP_disk_sig_%%A=%%D IF %%B.==Volume. IF NOT %%C.==n.. SET DP_disk_letters_%%A=!DP_disk_letters_%%A! %%D IF %%B.==Type. SET DP_disk_bus_%%A=%%C ) ) CLS&SET DP_disk GOTO :EOF jaclaz

@98Guy As said, I am not interested in yet another FAT32 vs. NTFS flamewar, if you are happy with your modified with third party utilities FAT32 and 500 Gb volumes, I am happy for you. However, NTFS cluster size can be 512 bytes (up to 2 Tb), the 4 kb is the default value for drives bigger that 512 Mb when using format.com without specifying a cluster size. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365/en-us jaclaz

It works for my USB external hard disk: C: 0,0 IDE Fixed D: 1,0 IDE Fixed E: 7,0 USB Fixed G: 7,1 USB Fixed H: 7,2 USB Fixed I: IDE CD-ROM J: 2,0 SCSI Removable K: 3,0 USB Removable L: 4,0 USB Removable M: 5,0 USB Removable N: 6,0 USB Removable O: 7,3 USB Fixed (letters E: G: H: O: ) Try using the /v switch and post output..... About ordering, at the end of the batch "main", after: FOR /F "Tokens=2 delims==" %%? IN ('SET LDrive') DO ECHO %%? and before: GOTO :EOF These two lines: Output becomes this : C: 0,0 IDE Fixed D: 1,0 IDE Fixed E: 7,0 USB Fixed G: 7,1 USB Fixed H: 7,2 USB Fixed I: IDE CD-ROM J: 2,0 SCSI Removable K: 3,0 USB Removable L: 4,0 USB Removable M: 5,0 USB Removable N: 6,0 USB Removable O: 7,3 USB Fixed I: IDE CD-ROM C: 0,0 IDE Fixed D: 1,0 IDE Fixed J: 2,0 SCSI Removable K: 3,0 USB Removable L: 4,0 USB Removable M: 5,0 USB Removable N: 6,0 USB Removable E: 7,0 USB Fixed G: 7,1 USB Fixed H: 7,2 USB Fixed O: 7,3 USB Fixed We could give a "fake" physical drive number to CD-ROM(s) to alter the order. PE is a different thing.... Also I need to know how would a SATA CD/DVD behave.... And however I am not so sure that entries in Services\Disk\Enum are the same as the output of WMIC.....this needs to be checked thoroughfully. EDIT: Checked, and unfortunately they do not correspond a similar batch using WMI gives different results: C: 0_0 IDE Fixed [HD] MAXTOR STM3320820AS D: 1_0 IDE Fixed [HD] MAXTOR STM3320820AS E: 3_0 USB Fixed [HD] SAMSUNG HD320KJ USB Device G: 3_1 USB Fixed [HD] SAMSUNG HD320KJ USB Device H: 3_2 USB Fixed [HD] SAMSUNG HD320KJ USB Device J: 2_0 SCSI Removable [HD] Perisoft Virtual Disk SCSI Disk Device K: 4_0 USB Removable Generic USB SD Reader USB Device L: 5_0 USB Removable Generic USB CF Reader USB Device M: 6_0 USB Removable Generic USB SM Reader USB Device N: 7_0 USB Removable Generic USB MS Reader USB Device O: 3_3 USB Fixed [HD] SAMSUNG HD320KJ USB Device Additionally mountvol does not detect IMDISK Virtual Disks : http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3909 I guess we need to find out how to manage correctly the entries in \DosDevices and forget about mountvol. The FREEDRV I wrote some time ago could be part of the solution...I will have to study it (I am getting old an cannot even say if it used mountvol or not....): http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=21965&st=6 EDIT: Checked, no way to detect IMDISK volumes through Mountvol or Registry.... jaclaz P.S.: On the machine I tried it I don't have a floppy, thus it is not "detected" at all (there is NO code for it), but I think anyway that it would be advisable to simply "exclude" A: and B: from the mountvol command, you aren't going to change those drive letters, are you?

@Yoshi Hmmm, AFAIK in English all does not mean "external" : Please get dd for windows here: http://www.chrysocome.net/dd Open a Command Prompt in the directory where you unzipped it and type: NT Block Device Objects \\?\Device\CdRom0 size is 2147483647 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk0\DR0 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 size is 320072933376 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume1 \\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk1\DR1 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 size is 320072933376 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 size is 320062063104 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk2\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk2\DR4 Removable media other than floppy. Block size = 512 size is 134217728 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk2\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk2\DP(1)0-0+5 Removable media other than floppy. Block size = 512 size is 98671104 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk3\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk3\DR19 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 size is 320072933376 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk3\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume7 \\?\Device\Harddisk3\Partition2 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume8 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 size is 41940670464 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk3\Partition3 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume9 Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512 size is 41940670464 bytes \\?\Device\Harddisk3\Partition4 link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume10 \\?\Device\Harddisk4\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk4\DR7 \\?\Device\Harddisk4\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk4\DP(1)0-0+f \\?\Device\Harddisk5\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk5\DR8 \\?\Device\Harddisk5\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk5\DP(1)0-0+10 \\?\Device\Harddisk6\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk6\DR9 \\?\Device\Harddisk6\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk6\DP(1)0-0+11 \\?\Device\Harddisk7\Partition0 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk7\DR10 \\?\Device\Harddisk7\Partition1 link to \\?\Device\Harddisk7\DP(1)0-0+12 If the DR7 and DR8 correspond to entries starting with "DP(1)0-0+" they are devices of your card reader and they are probably getting in the way. jaclaz

Google translate is enough to understand that the OP had a problem with BIOS update F6c and had to revert to F6a to solve the problem. jaclaz

Try opening a command prompt and enter: SET PATH Does %PATH% contain C.\Windows\System32\ ? Example: SET PATH Path=C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\Programmi\Suppor t Tools\ PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH jaclaz

I'll try to add my small contribution to the work of the master Since the dawn of DOS, the . (dot) means "current directory" and .. (double dot) means "directory above current". Try putting this into a batch (like dotexpand.cmd): @ECHO OFF CALL :EXPAND . DOT CALL :EXPAND .. DOUBLE DOT GOTO :EOF :EXPAND ECHO %1 %2 ECHO %~d1 (d=drive) ECHO %~dp1 (dp=drive and path) ECHO %~dpn1 (dpn=drive, path and name) ECHO %~n1 (n=name) GOTO :EOF Or, if you prefer: @ECHO OFF FOR %%A IN (.) DO ( ECHO %%A ECHO %%~dA [d=drive] ECHO %%~dpA [dp=drive and path] ECHO %%~dpnA [dpn=drive, path and name] ECHO %%~nA [n=name] ) In other words: the * (asterisk) in this case is just a "normal" character assigned to a FOR variable the . (dot) is the "special" meaning of "current directory" the %% (double percent) is needed because the variable is run from a batch (from command line use a single %) the ~ (tilde) is the character for variable expansion. (NT and later only) the n is one of the available expansion "names". (NT and later only) See this: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.html jaclaz

i am sorry, you are right. source is in german, that's why i didn't link to it. http://myeee.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/anle...k-installieren/ You underestimate the power of Google Translate....apart putting a few verbs at the end of the sentence, it usually produces an almost readable output. As expected, it is an apodictical sentence, with no background as to WHY this is needed. Basically it could be due to: 1) something in wimb's batches not "tuned" for such a situation 2) something else that can be fixed manually 3) a really needed thing to do Maybe wimb or ilko know more about this, but I would really like to know how the heck is partitioned/formatted the SSD and how it is seen by XP (Fixed or Removable). If you haven't yet wiped the thingy flat, can you save the MBR with any utility and post it? jaclaz

Careful when you suggest something , your advice has been actually taken into account (but he forgot the "!!!!!!!111", so no way he'll get the info). jaclaz

...but maybe that info is obsolete, or incorrect, totally or partially.... Very few things make me as much upset as sentences like "I've read somewhere....", "I have seen on some site....", almost all if not all the "fun" of the Internet is the interconnectdness of all things, if you cite something, be so kind as to give a link to it. It is very possile that deleting all partition is actually needed, but I doubt it, unless there is a disk size problem, it sounds to me like a "quick and dirty trick" to bypass the problem without understanding what the problem is and whether there are some other ways to fix it. jaclaz

New kid on the block: ODIN http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5871 http://sourceforge.net/projects/odin-win/ Stil in Beta, but promising.... jaclaz

Get a decent program to show your partition table. Partition editors: Beeblebrox: http://students.cs.byu.edu/~codyb/ or PTEDIT32: ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_...es/PTEDIT32.zip Partition viewers: PartinfoNT ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_...es/PartInNT.zip Partinfo (DOS): ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_...es/partinfo.zip Or some other utility, like: MBRWIZ: http://mbrwizard.com/ or MBRFIX: http://www.sysint.no/nedlasting/mbrfix.htm Not always "C:" is active partition. jaclaz

@Markymoo FYI: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=5871 http://sourceforge.net/projects/odin-win/ Stil in Beta, but promising.... jaclaz

I like to play along the rules of the "game" Try the attached. A bit slowish, needs polishing and betterings, but maybe we're getting somewhere . (only REG.EXE and MOUNTVOL.EXE is used, NO temporary files) Cheers, jaclaz listdrives.zip

well, which one is Active? i.e. has "80" in the partition table boot byte? jaclaz

Here: http://flyakite.msfn.org/ I guess you mean a multi-boot single disk, not a multi-disk... jaclaz

Which brings us to a fork, either: a. you are a Geek squad member, you are authorized to use the software and you know (supposedly ) how to use and burn it b. you are not a Geek squad member and the MRI should be considered WAREZ If you look hard enough, you should see something like this: (see Rule #1): http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=18408 jaclaz