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@ilko_t You can also use my standard reply #32, free of charge, of course! http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=2587 jaclaz

Right question. Wrong forum. Right one is here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-XP-from-USB-f157.html But you first need to "re-build" an install CD, or at least make sure you do have all needed files. Start from here: http://www.msfn.org/board/nlite-with-no-wi...cd-t113480.html http://www.msfn.org/board/Cannot-access-CD...P-i-t91907.html jaclaz

These don't make sense: You first make root on whatever drive/partition has grldr in root. Then you make root (hd0,0). Current root is of course determined by last root command issued. jaclaz

Hey, by any chance are you not a re-incarnation of forkart or bartle? http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=1297 I am sure you are not , but maybe you should add that it is a Commercial app that costs about 20 Euros or 30 US$. And that there are other ways to make a booteble .iso: http://www.msfn.org/board/Bootable-Vista-DVD-t88281.html and that vlite can do it as well: http://www.vlite.net/ @nikocronaldo From the screenshot you posted it does not seem to me that you have the "right" files, maybe it is possible to use them, but cannot say how. jaclaz

Since you are using Easyboot, which is a Commercial app, won't it be easier to ask for support to the makers: http://www.ezbsystems.com/easyboot/ http://www.ezbsystems.com/easyboot/support.htm jaclaz

Which means here : http://www.msfn.org/board/How-to-Change-Mo...en-t113048.html (second page won't be second forever , posting a link will help better ) @Viesto Care to give some more info on WHAT to hexedit in SETUPLDR.BIN? jaclaz

It depends on the hardware. Some motherboards only have USB 1.1 speed enabled controllers. Some motherboards have USB 2.0 speed enabled controllers, but their BIOS only supports booting at USB 1.1 speed. Most recent motherboards have USB 2.0 enabled controllers and have BIOS that uses USB 2.0 speed when booting. On the other hand common ATA/ATAPI dvd drives are rather fast, whilst USB flash sticks can have very different speeds, depending on the controller or flash memory chips they use. See this comparison: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/di...sh-roundup.html As I see it, however the carrying convenience (size and robustness) and the possibility to easily change/amend contents of USB sticks makes them a better choice. Apart from that, I have seen tens of machines (expecially PC's used in offices) where the dvd drive was dirty, clogged with dust, or however unable to read properly a burned DVD. Installing from a flash drive however, is not as "easy" as from CD/DVD, which has been documented, troubleshooted and fine-tuned for years, but relatively recently, a (supposedly ) foolproof method was devised, here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-XP-from-USB-f157.html which still has some limit/problem, but that is actively fixed and enhanced as soon as problems are found. jaclaz

Basically, yes. You will probably need to install all programs two times, one from booted OS #1 and once from booted OS #2, so that their install packages create the appropriate Registry entries. You can avoid that using as much as you can portable apps. The above is NOT recommended for antivirus or similar software that use auto update features, as the update files (virus definitions, etc.) may become "out of sync" and create a mess. Sure, once you have changed something in a file, it remains changed. jaclaz

Just for the record, it is basically what has been already described here : http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16713 which actually, due to a few shortcomings of the method, originated the "search for a better way", that ended up with the USB multiboot. Happy you made it, one way or the other. jaclaz

Back to square #1: http://www.msfn.org/board/System-recovery-...ion-t84411.html http://www.msfn.org/board/System-recovery-....html&st=41 http://www.goodells.net/dellutility/index.htm jaclaz

It's in BIOS, nothing much you can do about it, unless you want to start fiddling with BIOS, NOT, and I mean NOT recommended, you could end up with an unbootable system and need even a replacement BIOS ! jaclaz

@dorisno1 Please STOP double posting. the other thread is here: http://www.msfn.org/board/HELP-unmountable...me-t117693.html Post there some details and surely someone will try and help you, right now noone can have an idea of what you are talking about, what is disk #8, what is your hardware, and so on. jaclaz

But you cannot as well say that. It may well be an intermittent problem. You will need anyway to check the hard disk. jaclaz P.S.: You should also check your keyboard, your "!" and "?" keys appear to get stuck...

Well, unless you have a working crystal ball or some ESP powers, there is no way to conclude that a HD is "busted" because of an "unmountable boot volume" error. Cause can be ANYTHING among: bad cable/connection corrupted filesystem bad BIOS settings Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302/en-us http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297185/en-us Usually a CHKDSK /R, re-seating the cable (or changing it) and checking the BIOS settings resolves the problem. Particularly: is not accurate, it is the filesystem (not a single file) that cannot be properly mounted. jaclaz

Another approach, that I find useful: http://www.msfn.org/board/util-or-shell-ex...4.html&st=8 As it opens a command prompt in currently opened folder, I have both on my 2K, so that I can open a command prompt everywhere. jaclaz

@mf_2 Read here about REDIRECTION: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/redirection.html Redirection is not documented inside ANY command as it is a "generic" feature of the OS. Since some commands output to "standard error" instead of "standard output" in some case you will need to use the: command > NUL 2>&1 syntax jaclaz

Besides the thread previously referenced, about WinRE, check this one: http://www.msfn.org/board/System-recovery-...ion-t84411.html I guess that you can use the grub4dos PARTNEW and/or map --in-situ features to re-map the "DE" partition if needed. Some reference: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=3287&st=50 jaclaz

If it's a DVD it is possible that SETUPLDR.BIN (read NTLDR) is "beyond reach" of the bootsector. See this: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=20248 jaclaz

Yep, as I see it, 7zip has about 35,94 € of advantages: http://www.winrar.it/listino.html I am greedy, I know jaclaz

Well you may want to have only one of those lines in config.sys. But with a blank autoexec.bat and config.sys, it should work normally. And you are positive that you are using "normal" IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM from WIN 98SE? I am 100% positive it worked with 0.4.2, but if I recall coorectly it did with 0.4.3 as well. You may try with those versions, right now I have no way to test latest version, but will do and see what happens. jaclaz

Yes, normally it works allright. The problem appear to be some TSR or driver you are loading in autoexec.bat or config.sys, they tend to "confuse" grub4dos. How are you loading grub4dos? Directly, via DEVICE, via SHELL ? Which version are you using? Get latest from here: http://grub4dos.jot.com/WikiHome jaclaz

If needed: http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_numlock.htm http://www.somacon.com/p339.php Also, check tis thread: http://discussions.virtualdr.com/showthread.php?t=206491 jaclaz

Yep , but that is a "peculiarity" of DELL Bioses, the idea of the thread was to use the MBR or a bootloader/bootmanager (independently from any BIOS make/brand/code). More (GOOD) info on the DELL partition utility is here: http://www.goodells.net/dellutility/index.htm The BIOS has code that "intercept" the F12 and "recognizes" setting it active, the "DE" partition. jaclaz

Yep, that is the so-called "Wake on alarm" or "RTC alarm" feature of ACPI motherboards, but I don't think you can access the "timer" settings in BIOS from batch , or may be there is some utility for them? However, surely the batch cannot run on the switched off machine. In linux there is support for it: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/ACPI_Wakeup but it seems like it has been giving lots of problems jaclaz P.S.:A (also command line) wake-on-lan app: http://www.depicus.com/wake-on-lan/

I would guess that processor speed of a turned off PC would get to 0 Mhz quite soon , so the batch or whatever won't have much speed of execution. At least "something" must be on to run any program. If you are on a network, you can use the "Wake on Lan" feature of most recent machines to turn them on, but still at least one machine on the network needs to be switched on to process the script and send the WOL signal/packets. Some info: http://www.ezlan.net/WOL.html Beside the above, with some operating systems and through specific utilities it is possible to hybernate a PC and resume (wake up) it at a given time. An example is here: http://genntt.webs.com.ua/ But the PC will be on, only in hybernate/suspend mode. jaclaz