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

Hey Ascii2, you need some "fantasy" when navigating the internet. The link: http://commandwindows.com/files/setcommand.zip does actually give a "Not Found" error. Try removing the name of the file at the end: http://commandwindows.com/files/ Sure enough it is an Open Directory where you can see a couple of files: setcommand.inf CmdHereAsAdmin.inf Now, guess which one you want? http://commandwindows.com/files/setcommand.inf jaclaz

You may want/need a dedicated program to create/edit/modify the bootscreen (320 x 400 256 colours bitmap animated through colour cycling). Looky here: http://www.msfn.org/board/newist-animated-...ogo-t38262.html and a very basic tutorial: http://www.spcug.org/reviews/vlba0010.htm Logomania can still be found around as "v16n06.zip". jaclaz

Are you hinting that people frequenting the Win95/98 section of this forum are not knowledgeable on DOS 6.22 or 7.1 (read win9x ) ? Seriously, try us . And if you cannot get what you need, this is usually a good one: http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/wwwboard.html Also check links here: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/Websites.html http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/Websites.html#Network jaclaz

Which is nothing more than this old 10 steps solution: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=16713&hl= with the addition of a (Polish?) copy of NC and an old release of PM. Solution that is outdated by the new "direct" method which is faster, to where I pointed you in your other thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/PeToUSB-error-bu...er-t110779.html jaclaz

Unfortunately there is not a "standard" nlited Xp, it all depends on what you remove with nlite. You just remove one component too much and bam! it won't work anymore. Just for the record, since you own a Eeepc, a "NICK" guy here: http://www.digwin.com/view/installing-wind...usb-flash-drive is distributing wimb's (and ilko_t's, and all the other people who contributed to this project) work without mentioning them (us) nor MSFN. If you have some spare time, can you (and other members, of course) post there, expressing how this way of publishing and distributing other people's work without citing them is an unfair practice? (I tried to, but my current setup is not working on that site) jaclaz

Here: http://commandwindows.com/recovery.htm After having set the "setcommand" to 1 you need to create the proper Environment Varaibles. The given link also has a pre-made .inf file. jaclaz

Try doing the following: 1) get a screenshot (or open the logon.sys bitmap) 2) cut a portion of it (with the text) 3) upload it to this: http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ 4) try the question/answer routine here: http://www.identifont.com/identify-sample.html jaclaz

Not wanting to "prevent" you in any way from learning how to write a batch file, mind you , but maybe if all you have to do is copying some log files at certain date/times, you could use a pre-made solution, something like this should be right for your needs: http://www.xs4all.nl/~wstudios/LazyMirror/index.html If you want to write your own batch file, you should have a look at this site: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ where you can find lots of examples and "tricks". jaclaz

Well, the answer to the question: Should not be "go and buy this COMMERCIAL software" It can be made with freely available tools, read these: http://www.msfn.org/board/hidden-restore-p...ion-t47773.html http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12447 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18480 In the meantime a (once Commercial/Shareware) MBR bootmanager has gone Opensource: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=334 And moreover, you can use grub4dos' grldr as well. See this also: http://www.msfn.org/board/System-recovery-...ion-t84411.html jaclaz

popd is the "opposite" of pushd. In other words, it reverts the effect of pushd, see this simple example: http://www.ss64.com/nt/pushd.html jaclaz

No prob, mate. @DigeratiPrime I may add that apart "straight HFSLIP" any project aimed to considerably reduce the bloat of a build has to face the total removal of the IE engine, as initially started by Fred de Vorck, and sporting this logo is actually cool : Just as an example, xchm does work also in this EXPERIMENTAL "micro-build": http://www.boot-land.net/forums/XPSP1-with...0-MB-t3717.html It might be useful, even in a "Emergency Recovery Only" build, to be able to access Windows Help files. And yes, .pdf is an alltogether different matter, reading them has not been a problem since Foxit made available it's reader, but sometimes one needs some editing and doesn't want (or cannot afford) full blown pdf creating apps. BTW, there is an even smaller pdf reader around: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...15&hl=foxit jaclaz