jaclaz

On the contrary, I was commenting EXACTLY the tone he used and the extreme lack of any kind of gracefulness in the posts this guy made. Noone is required to read the entire thread, everyone is kindly asked to act politely, and give the required info to: 1) make us be able to help him/her 2) possibly find and fix any flaw in the procedure (for everyone) That's the whole idea of developing and beta testing something, interactive feedback until problem is solved. I tried to somehow "code" this in "Common Sense Advice" given here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?act=boardrules but more generally the idea is that you shouldn't ever post on a board something that, if said in "real life", as an example at the pub, would probably get you a punch in the mouth. Now, is this way (posting on a single thread on a board) the ideal situation for developing an app and to support it? Surely not, it would be much better if this thingy here had it's own Homepage, Online Help and dedicated Forum, but life is tough, you have to live with some shortcomings. The good news is that, little by little and thanks to the efforts of wimb and the cooperation of several users, there is some help and usability and dependability has vastly increased. Maybe it's time to ask some Admin/Mods of MSFN if they think this project be worth it's own sub-forum in "Member Contributed Projects", or in "Member Contributed Projects\Other Member Contributed Projects"; that would surely better the quality of the support. jaclaz

Imgburn CAN burn Images OR files: http://www.imgburn.com/ http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=screenshots#isobuild http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=screenshots#isowrite jaclaz

Actually the exact opposite of what you're asking, but maybe interesting as well: http://www.grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm If you still want to go ahead: http://www.msfn.org/board/Hotfixes-Remaini....html&st=10 http://www.jaredjacobs.com/upnp/index.html jaclaz

If I may, it seems to me that there are some serious problems with the "attitude" of the Company. I seem not able to find ANY reference to the GNU license, not to sources, it is of course very possible that, notwithstanding the fact that it is Linux based, EVERYTHING they provide is their own independent work, but since they also provide a Linux based "Live CD", they must at least provide the sources for that part AND the GNU license. The "general" License Agreement is here: http://userful.com/download/eula/ I have rarely seen such a restrictive EULA, between other things : And just for a quick laugh, compare this Copyright statement: http://userful.com/about/terms to this one: http://support.userful.com/wiki/index.php/Copyright Should I have to publicly "state" that I'm considering purchasing a Userful product to be legally allowed to print this: http://support.userful.com/wiki/index.php/...board_USB_ports I hope that quoting it on a board is not illegal... jaclaz

ANY windows NT based system has problems if a motherboard replacement is carried on WITHOUT using the PROPER procedure: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html XP and 2003 are equally "sensible" to this. 2000 is a bit less, and NT 4.00 is yet a bit less. There are minor differences related to Licenses and OEM discs, but nothing really substantial. There are no compromises on this, you either follow the procedure or system won't boot. (and yes, I know all the above for a fact ) jaclaz

Somehow you are missing a needed font. It is of course a bit of time I had a W95 system , but if (as it generally happens) things have not changed that much in later release that should be marlett.ttf. But, as it happened to me just a few days ago working on a seemingly completely unrelated thing: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/XPSP1-with...0-MB-t3717.html if I added marlett.ttf but not tahoma.ttf I had a similar effect to the one you describe. You should try and re-add these two fonts and possibly check if anything else has "gone astray" in the Registry related to fonts. jaclaz

Or you could simply READ the threads linked to, particularly: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...16381&st=18 These are TEXT files you can make with Notepad: WIN51IP.SP2 should be generated by the slipstreaming process, if it's not, simply make a copy of WIN51IP.SP1 and rename it to WIN51IP.SP2 (that's the idea of giving links) On the other threads are infos on what to change to move them from ROOT of the CD. jaclaz

jeepnut, I replied to your OTHER post here: http://www.msfn.org/board/XP-SP2-bootable-...ve-t111302.html Please note that this thread is 6 (SIX) years old. It would be appreciated if you avoid double posting (Rule #2.a): http://www.msfn.org/board/Forum-Rules-Upda...ead-t18408.html and also bumping old threads without a very good reason is usually not highly considered on technical boards. jaclaz

Usually that error is caused by missing tag or "ident" files. See these: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16381 http://www.msfn.org/board/Edit-txtsetupsif...N51-t65541.html http://www.msfn.org/board/multiboot-nlite-t99385.html jaclaz

@perlabsrat At the moment there is NO known way to boot a NT based system off an image file. The only workaround is Ramdisk booting, do read this: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=2692&st=26 Also, this thread is over TWO YEARS old, in these cases it is better to start a new thread instead of "bumping" the old one, if the original poster did not post the code in two years, it is unlikely that he will fulfill (or even read) your request. jaclaz

Sure. I guess the best thing you can do is to use grub4dos' grldr. Change (hexedit) the bootsector to invoke grldr and then put in menu.lst a provision for booting the standard loader on the stick or the one on hard disk. Or use spacesurfer trick of renaming grldr to bootmgr http://www.msfn.org/board/Multiboot-Vista-...enu-t95537.html jaclaz

It is possible that you are hexediting it the "wrong" way, read this: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=2989&st=5 but you should have a checksum error, the "NTLDR is missing" comes from the bootsector. jaclaz

ashraf, maybe there are some problems (language barrier) while communicating. You can use (at your choice) C, C++, C# Delphi or whatever other compiler to create a portable app. ANY compiled app is "portable" UNLESS it writes info on hardcoded places OR uses the Registry without being "self-registering" AND as long as it is distributed with (if needed) "peculiar" or "custom written" .DLL's. Of course using only "base" .DLL's or however ony those included by default in the intended target OS avoids harassing the final user (that needs to get the runtimes) and reduces size of the setup, a typical (negative in my opinion) example are these nifty small apps that need .NET installed. The big question is then: Can you write a program? If the answer is yes, than you already know how to write your app in such a manner that it can be "portable". If the answer is no, then you need to learn how to write a program, and by the time you will be able to do that you will also get to know how to make it portable. If, on the other hand, you need to make portable an existing app, simply check the portableapps site, you will find that a large number of the "converted" apps simply use the NSIS installer to install the app and uninstall it "on the fly": http://portableapps.com/ jaclaz

GOOD news. I don't have any of the books you cited, maybe something in these: http://www.pcausa.com/resources/ifsqlist.html http://www.techsoftpl.com/vxd/sample.htm http://www.chsw.com/ddk/ may help you? If the problems you are having are in the IFS/hooking part, you may want to review the Sources for fsdext2: http://www.dcee.net/Files/Programm/Windows/fsdext2.zip or some of the other programs you can find on that page: http://www.dcee.net/Files/Programm/Windows/ jaclaz P.S.: The book is available (used) from as low as $2.79: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/156...1981643-2719235 even adding to it the Standard International Shipping rate of $12.49: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/dis...p;nodeId=537734 should be convenient. Be aware of this, however: http://www.themobiusproject.com/mirrors/ww.../Resources.html

With all due respect, before starting looking around for a programmer and create from scratch a MBR, it would be advisable to spend some time SEARCHING for already made solutions: http://www.msfn.org/board/recovery-partition-t110914.html http://www.msfn.org/board/recovery-partiti...4.html&st=3 jaclaz

What I would do in the batch: 1) Issue a shutdown.exe -a 2) Rename shutdown.exe to shutdown.NOP (or whatever) 3) Execute rest of the batch 4) Rename shutdown.NOP back to shutdown.exe jaclaz

As a side note, you may be interested in this (NOT faster): http://www.ruahine.com/ycopy-file-copy-utility.html Also, IF the bottleneck is the network, you may want to compress the files locally into a (temporary) archive, then transfer the archive, this usually gives better performance when compared to a number of small files... jaclaz

Well, you don't. The CD bootsector is different from a bootsector on HD. You can use this batch: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2362 to create a bootsector invoking SETUPLDR.BIN instead of NTLDR. Such a bootsector can be chainloaded by an entry in BOOT.INI, but if the drive is NTFS the bootloader name MUST be 5 characters long. (you need to have a renamed SETUPLDR.BIN) Also, paths are hardcoded, \xpcd\i386 will NEVER work, paths are: \I386 on CD \minint on HD \$WIN_NT$.~BS for Setup after first stage unless you hexedit/modify the loader http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...3784&st=249 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=17504 Most of the problems have been solved in this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/boot-install-USB-key-t61384.html from which you should get all the info you need. jaclaz

This may help: http://deron.meranda.us/casemod/cdrom/ but as puntoMX pointed out, every CD drive is a little different from another, so some steps may not be accurate for your model, however if you have basic mechanical skills it is not a difficult thing to do. jaclaz

Just to make things as clear as possible: Yes, it is theoretically possible, and actually Wnternals, the "COMMERCIAL" brother company of Sysinternals did that in practice. See above, it has been done. Boot support for an IFS under Win9x/Me it is NOT possible, not even theoretically, unless one re-writes the DOS system files, integrating into them the missing filesystem. So what is the point ? Ranting about the fact that noone wrote a FREE app for doing that? Well, this is the situation as per today, like it or not. And, given the evolution of Operating Systems, it is very unlikely that anyone with the right knowledge for writing such a piece of code will be willing to do so, but you never know. Maybe, if Sysinternals were NOT bought by Microsoft, Mark Russinovich might have decided to release the old Winternals driver as Freeware, soon or late, but releasing the driver is evidently against current MS policies, so this makes this event even more unlikely. Apples and oranges. Yep, that's the idea about the "for the record" innuendo, the post was made trying to add some related information, specifying the limitations of the linked apps, but don't be so sure about the actual differences between Apples and Oranges: http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/v...1-3-apples.html jaclaz

I am not really an expert on PE plugins, but it seems to me easier to try that way rather than re-write a NT Kernel driver. However, being the "Hitachi Microdrive Filter" a driver like any other one, should be possible to add it like any driver: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/help/english/drivers.htm This thread has a clear howto on how the .inf should be adapted: http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?sh...=2531&st=10 The only person I know that could write a new disk.sys is Alter: http://alter.org.ua/en/ http://alter.org.ua/soft/win/uni_ata/ jaclaz

The MS FDISK does NOT allow to set Active Second hard disk, you can however use the FreeDOS FDISK. See some detail in this (seemingly unrelated) thread: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16713 jaclaz

Well, for the recordm there ARE apps for win 9x to acces ext2/ext3 filesystems: http://martin.hinner.info/fs/Filesystems-H...ms-HOWTO-6.html points6.5, 6.6, 6.8 and 6.9. Most are however experimental, READ ONLY or "special applications" not real filesystem drivers like ext2fsnt. jaclaz

It happened to me more than once (with rather old CD ROM drives) usually office PC's (where the CD drive is not often used). After carefully disassembling them I found that very often the cause was dirt and dust clogging the lubricant, a kind of grease that became very stiff. Thoroughly cleaning all sliding parts and reapplying some good PTFE based lubricant (this is not advertisement, mind you, but i use only "SUPER-LUBE") makes usually the drive eject work as new. jaclaz

There is a very complete review of these tools by Jeremy, here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Registry-Cleaner...son-t68677.html jaclaz