jaclaz

Start from here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Install-XP-USB-f157.html (Use grub4dos instead of bcdw) Start first with plain project, test it, then add another item.... Edit setupldr.bin: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=21312&hl= jaclaz

Gantlett, take a deep breath. Noone is accusing you of using illegally XP. Everyone is accusing you to use nlite illegally. The license of nlite seems clear enough to me: http://www.msfn.org/board/usb-drivers-prob...te-t112812.html Which is the part that you do not understand?: Are you using nlite in any company or business purpose? If yes, you are using it illegally. Although I don't think that you will be prosecuted or sued for this, this is non-ethical, unfair and overall against netiquette and the scope of this board. Besides, you are clearly breaking rules of the board, by needlessly attacking another member : jaclaz

Yes, the point is that you will need to use only the "root" directory. I mean, say that there is a way to "join" virtually these several harddisks, if you have a file "test.txt" on hard disk #1 in folder "\mytest" harddisk, you can have as well the same file "test.txt" on hard disk #1 or on hard disk #2 in folder "\my_test". Now, if you use 2K/XP there is also software RAID: http://www.msfn.org/board/before-t52012.html http://www.techimo.com/articles/index.pl?photo=149 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;308424 http://www.articles-database.com/viewartic...?articleid=4060 What you are trying to achieve can be done setting up Dynamic disks as spanned volumes, but that won't help about duplicate files in different folders. jaclaz

Here: http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/consize/ jaclaz

If you have a Windows 95 or 98 (not sure about ME) you can re-build a minimal (Standard mode only) Win3.x, using some base files included in the Win9x release, alternative freeware, and freely available patches from MS. It is NOT the "real" thing, but enough for some experiments. Read these: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16754 http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=623 jaclaz

Yes, you can. You can use grub4dos to "exchange" floppies. Example (to be TESTED): title Flip floppies and boot from B: map --mem (fd0)/Floppy.img.gz (fd1) map (fd0) (fd1) map (fd1) (fd0) map --hook root (fd0) chainloader /IO.SYS or something like that. Get latest grub4dos here: http://grub4dos.jot.com/WikiHome Browse here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/Grub4dos-f66.html Start from this one: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/Jaclaz-A-F...mine-t3963.html jaclaz

Can you tell us more on what you want to achieve? The common way to do that is to use a duplicate finder to "clean" the base: http://www.filetransit.com/freeware.php?name=Duplicate_File and then use a backup or a "sync" program. Maybe something like this: http://www.flexense.com/flextk/ will do. jaclaz

Try analyzing it here: http://www.hijackthis.de/ jaclaz

Comeon, stop the whining , get the WAIK, a HUGE download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en And optionally, a GUI tool: http://www.msfn.org/board/GImageX-v201-Bet...UI-t108083.html http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=3001 jaclaz

That's queer, I have never seen a VIA EPIA motherboard not being able to boot from USB. Or is it one of those third-party motherboards that use VIA C3? What BIOS (Award or Ami) and version do the machines have? jaclaz

There is my alternative take on the problem: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/DOCX-conve...more-t3378.html Basically telling people to use NOT proprietary formats, if they want to "talk" with me. jaclaz

NO, there is NO law against writing a program able to read and write a "patented" filesystem, on the contrary, the recent EU anti-trust sentence states exactly the opposite, the more methods to access a given protocol the better. Point is whether Microsoft is entitled to require a fee for USING the "patented" filesystem. The validity of the patent has been denied in Germany: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS9467496750.html which will be most probably provoke it to be judged NOT VALID in all the EU. As everyone knows, the release of the patent by the US office has been MUCH controversial: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/15/fat_patent_review/ http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/01/11/...tpatents_1.html I find the idea of asking a fee to software producers absolutely queer, but, should the patent be proved to be valid, asking the fee for hardware items sold pre-formatted as FAT (like USB sticks, MP2 players or the like) might have it's merit. jaclaz

...thus OVERWRITING the old ones.... if this is the case, files may be gone forever... jaclaz

[maybe off-topic] I guess that we can anyway agree that between NT4.00 (without explorer) and Vista there is a x10 factor. That should mean that having (instead of the 64 Mb of RAM that made a NT 4.00 machine decently running), 640 Mb on a Vista machine, would make it as well decently running, but actually 1 Gb is what I see as the bare minimum to run Vista (almost, but not quite, unlike ) decently. A "bare" NT 4.00 would fit on a 100 Mb Iomega zip, if I remember correctly a "standard" install was about 150 Mb, 2K about 600 Mb, XP around 1.5 Gb. Now, a "standard" Vista install is about 5Gb, with a multiplying factor of x33! And all "newish" apps tend to be larger and larger. So, besides the sheer memory requirements/occupation, I would like to see how the peaks go when doing on the two systems comparable everyday tasks like: checking e-mail writing a letter using a spreadsheet to check your bank account balance save some data on a CDR Everyone has his theory, mine is that the key to swift computing is to downgrade, i.e. using yesterday software on today's hardware, as Microsoft have this tendency to add lots of (nice, mind you ) "bell and whistles" to their software in such a way that at the time of it's release it will behave "fast" only on existing "top grade" (read MUCH expensive) hardware. [end possible off-topic] jaclaz

Nothing connected with downgrade rights. You might have heard that you need a valid license for each installed/running Operating System, though. jaclaz

Here: http://www.reasonco.com/vista/vistadowngraderights.htm http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/2...grade_chart.doc http://forums.microsoft.com/genuine/showpo...6&siteid=25 jaclaz

Yep, what I meant was that "re-writing" a 9x driver from a NT kernel source, is not "porting" something, us re-writing it and there are very few people with the right knowledge for doing such a difficult task, the only ones I know are exactly Alter (main author of UNIATA) and bearwindows/KtP (Author of UNIVBE), besides some of the good guys at ReactOS/Tinykrnl, which are definitely not interested in 9x/Me. More generally, testing and using a read/write disk driver is VERY, VERY dangerous (much more than a video one). So I think we have to wait for Alter to succeed in the items listed before 9x/Me support: jaclaz

Well, no, I am afraid you are presuming wrong. Most probably the first partition data (and structure) is beyond recovery, maybe the logical one can be fully recovered. You can nonetheless have a try with TESTDISK: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk and/or with Tokiwa Partition Recovery: http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/PartitionRecovery and/or ScroungeNTFS: http://memberwebs.com/nielsen/software/scrounge/ But most probably you will need a file based (as opposed to partition based) recovery program, the good news is that only a very little amount of files can be deleted in a few seconds, so most of the data should be recoverable. Among the Freeware ones I can recommend PHOTOREC (same author as TESTDISK). Read also this: http://www.msfn.org/board/Data-recovery-tool-t84345.html http://www.msfn.org/board/Data-recovery-to...5.html&st=7 jaclaz

You don't need "specific" drivers under 2K/XP, they are built into system. Just format it again from Windows XP, it is possible that gparted partitioned/formatted it with "wrong" or however "wrong for XP" partition data/bootsector data. If it still does not work, use the HP formatting tool, see FAQ #4 here: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...SB/USBfaqs.html Independently from the fact that it will also be made bootable, the stick will be partitioned/formatted properly (single partitions). If you need two or more partitions on it, you will need to install a filter driver (either Hitachi Microdrive Filter cfadisk.sys or Anton Bassov's dummydisk.sys), otherwise only first partition will be visible/accessible from XP. jaclaz

Can you post a picture of it? I seem to find NO reference whatsoever to those two numbers. jaclaz

What some of the younger members might be unaware of is that the same team that originated ReactOS originally came from a DEAD project aiming to re-build Win9x from scratch, called FreeWin95: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#FreeWin95_to_ReactOS While I do respect the abilities of most ReactOS team members, I concur with Nuno that they all seem more aimed to "academic" talking about this or that "fine tuning" and "high level" programming of a completely unusable module, rather than producing anything actually working, even in a limited way. As I see it, they completely fail to see that to allow for a wider diffusion of ReactOS, and thus ultimately get more contributions, they should try to produce (and they do have the capabilities to do so ) something that answers the current needs of "advanced users", i.e. whatever features are missing from MS products. To have initially a "mixed system" made out of MS base and some ReactOS components is what would guarantee a wider use of the project. Things appear to start slowly changing, the latest FREELDR appears to have been successfully used to boot 2003. But I don't think that anyone there will likely go back and do something for Win9x.... ...the real bad thing is that whatever has been done in 1996 and 1997 was never publicly released, as it may be useful as a base for people possibly interested in the Win9x project. Sadly, from my experience, there is some kind of CATCH22 going on: Anyone interested in Win9x re-building is NOT a programmer capable of doing so. Any programmer capable of re-building Win9x is not interested in Win9x rebuilding. jaclaz

Patchworks, if I am not mistaken, by your own admission, you are not a programmer, (I am not either, so we are even ), but you have to understand that Win9x is DOS based and a COMPLETELY different operating system from NT based ones. We are talking here about a NT kernel driver, not a "high-level" app. So this is not the case of "porting", but rather to re-write from scratch a .vxd for win9x use. jaclaz

The 0x0000007b error is generally due to a missing/wrong Mass Storage device driver, typically on newish machines it is a missing/wrong SATA driver. jaclaz

Happy to know you have been busy on better occupations (the babies ). jaclaz P.S.: Something you might soon be needing: http://tk.ms11.net/

Yes, basically when you delete a file, you do not actually "wipe" it, you just clear the pointers to that file. Just imagine a file system like it was a book, when you delete something it is the same as if you erase the index of the book, the pages are still there, but you cannot find them easily. Searching for the file is just like browsing through the pages of the book, it does not make any harm. On the contrary downloading or installing anything would be like writing over the printed pages. jaclaz