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Well, at least we tried. But it's still better to have the same drive with two different letter assigned than having two same letters.... jaclaz

Courtesy of The WayBack Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.me...2%20Updater.zip http://web.archive.org/web/20071011003648/...0.2+Updater.zip 00 byte missing at the end: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=2681&st=24 jaclaz

NICE trick. jaclaz

The blinking cursor is a sign of a "bad" bootsector, usually a geometry problem. Did you try if the USB hard disk EVER booted? Why can't you use Disk Manager like everyone? In any case, FORGET for the moment about the USB install thingy, simply copy to first active partition NTLDR NTDETECT.COM and a BOOT.INI with at least two entries, and see if you can get to the boot.ini choices. If you cannot, you will need to try repairing the bootsector or try re formatting the drive. jaclaz

So these would be valid commands? RLGRPCRT.exe "App. BO" /B P700489 /B P700144 /B P700134 RLGRPCRT.exe " Medewerkers Zorgmanagers Noord " /B P700489 /B P700566 /B P700240 There is no problem in making a batch, but I wonder (just like for the Robocopy .script) how one is supposed to be able to verify if the groups.txt and the users.txt are "in sync". Depending on lenght of line (i.e. how many tokens there are in users.txt) this may work: @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SET /A n=-1 FOR /F "delims=" %%A in (groups.txt) DO ( SET This_group="%%A" CALL :Parse_users ECHO RLGRPCRT.exe !This_group! /B !These_users! ) GOTO :EOF :Parse_users SET /A n+=1 FOR /F "delims=" %%B in ('MORE +%n% users.txt' ) DO ( SET These_users=%%B SET These_users=!These_users: = /B ! GOTO :EOF ) jaclaz

Please post a snippet of BOTH groups.txt and users.txt. jaclaz

That is not a file format description, it's a mess. How many values B2, B3, B4, BEtc are there? Fixed in all lines? Variable? Are all tokens of the same length? Do the names contain special characters like &, | + : = and the like? Is the [space] the only delimiter? Is first token ALWAYS the same "ValueA"? Why instead of trying to describe the file don't you post a few lines of that file (with names changed as to protect the innocent - if needed)? Did you ALREADY try by yourself after reading these: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.html http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfortokens.html and failed? jaclaz

You want a floppy capable to boot a CD on a machine that cannot boot directly from CD? Strange, any motherboard that supports XP should have the capability to boot from CD directly. However, if I got right your question, what you need is BCDL, part of the BCDW package: http://bootcd.narod.ru/index_e.htm http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/bcdw_e.html gete the 2.01 version: http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/downloads_e.html http://www.wolfgang-brinkmann.de/downloads/bcdw201a.rar It contains also a floppy image of BCDL. jaclaz

For defragging (and backing up) ERUNT/NTREGOPT: http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/ jaclaz

Modified/enhanced 7zip sfx stubs+detailed instructions/examples: http://7zsfx.solta.ru/en/ jaclaz

Well, sorry to say so, but it makes NO sense, the bottleneck will be anyway the USB bus, that tops at 480 mb/s (as opposed to 1330 or 1500/3000, to keep the "high" numbers ) or if you prefer at roughly 60 MB/s . Maybe a recent firewire (read ieee1394): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire Would be not affected, or we'll have to wait for USB 3.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB#USB_3.0 jaclaz

OK, now it's time to test your hard disk. You can try getting the HD Manufacturer testing tool or try using this: http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/ MHDD): http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/ jaclaz

Would you mind reading the given links?: And think a bit about the matter? You might later want to review your opinion... jaclaz

Am I? ...hopefully NOT infamous . You're very welcome. jaclaz

press "S" ? Put the floppy disk in the floppy drive, with the compuiter off. Boot from CD. Press F6 at the very beginning of the booting, you will be prompted in the lower white bar and have a handful of seconds to press F6. Chack this if in doubt: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/operatingsys...xprepair1_3.htm About BIOS there won't probably be a "USB floppy" related entry, there might be a "generic" USB legacy support" or a "USB keyboard support" jaclaz

Only thing you may try using I can think of is letter assigner: Site went beserk: http://web.archive.org/web/20080206033439/...s.com/LetAssig/ Missing 00 byte at end of the archive: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=2681&st=24 but cannot say if it will be of use. jaclaz

If only I could understand what you are trying to do.... ...Where is USERDNSDOMAIN defined? However maybe this is the missing point, (alternate solution to the one already posted) enabling delayed expansion of variables and use the !var! syntax together with the %var% one, that allows for !var1_%var2%! SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION SET USERDNSDOMAIN=Domain2 set D_Domain1=Server1 set D_Domain2=Server2 set D_Domain3=Server3 set Server=!D_%USERDNSDOMAIN%! SET Server PAUSE net use O: \\%Server%\Share jaclaz

Did you try by any chance this : http://www.msfn.org/board/Patched-IOSYS-98SE-t118119.html jaclaz

There are several factors affecting the choice. Start with reading here: http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm In a nutshell: 1) FAT32 is slightly faster on "smallish" sized volumes 2) FAT32 gives far less security in case of a filesystem corruption (but on the other hand file recovery is generally easier on FAT drives then on NTFS ones) - file recovery on NTFS compressed or encrypted drives usually is a nightmare and often gives no or very scarce results - but the event of an unrepairable broken NTFS filesystem is much less probable than a FAT (16 or 32 doesn't matter) one 3) FAT32 misses features like quotas, access security and more generally anything might be of use in a multi-user environment 4) NTFS makes a far bigger number of disk writes that may wear out prematurely Solid state devices like USB sticks, SSD cards and drives. (and probably conventional hard drives also, though the latter are designed for such a high number of write cycles that there is no concern on them) 5) the single filesize limit of 4 Gb FAT32 has can be a severe drawback if you use video's DVD's or similar BIG multimedia. For example on a Laptop (just one user) like the EEEPC with it's (smallish) SSD card, I would personally prefer FAT32 over NTFS. ALL programs (exception made for "low-level" ones like defraggers and similar ones) are "filesystem agnostic". They use the IFS driver in the NT subsystem to access both in Read and Write the mass storage devices. jaclaz

By any chance was he also abducted by aliens any time in his childhood? We all know about the conspiracy by car manufacturers to give us fuel thirsty cars whilst they do have already in production new engines that they only give to a few chaps under a very strict non disclosure agreement. Obviously they do so because if they mass produced them they would be so cheap that they could sell more new cars and completely ruin the maintenance workshops for the old models. jaclaz

Actually you do not need to buy anything. There are several Freewares capable of doing that. It's up to you to decide which level of security you think adequate, but do READ these: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21073 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2683 and links therein before wasting hours (and possibly increasing the wear on the drives) doing multiple passes of random data, which is perfectly unneeded. jaclaz

Hmmm, NO. A "dd-like" image is as byte by byte, 1:1 copy and is even "filesystem agnostic", in other words an imaging application can image also filesystems (like BSD or Linux EXT2/3, ReiserFS, etc.) that you cannot mount/access from your OS. jaclaz

I don't have Vista (you see why I am a rather happy guy, don't you ) so I cannot help you as much as I would like but you cannot "invent" the syntax like you would like it to be, this line seems to me WRONG: Bcdedit /store c:\PXEServer\Tftproot\Boot\BCD /set {bootmgr} displayorder {d4c3277e-af2e-11dd-83c2-0002b3cc4b18} {d60c2c02-af2e-11dd-83c2-0002b3cc4b18} you cannot pass two parameters to /set displayorder. Or may be you have a timing problem? Some further reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms791568.aspx http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc721886.aspx See if this helps: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=4197 Why don't you try using one of the GUI utilities to modifiy the store if you are not confident enough in batch/command line syntax? http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 http://www.vistabootpro.org/ jaclaz

Well, you cannot expect to find exactly what you want all nicely put together. For XP install, see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=157 (and yes, it uses grub4dos) For all the rest, including Acronis software, dos boot disks and some .iso's proved to be booting from stick, see here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=66 For a "cute" boot menu, you might want to experiment with AeroStudio: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showforum=72 (and yes, underlying there is grub4dos) jaclaz

Usually problems with hard drives are "binary": 0 or 1, works or crashes. The freezing and later unfreezing appears more like a badly configured software/service. However, once you run chkdisk, you should run it until completion, or, if you need to shutdown the PC re-run it afterwards immediately. Start your PC, run chkdisk, then, once it has finished it's job, start Task Manager and check which processes eat up too much CPU (and possibly cause the freezing)... jaclaz