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Some other "minimal" explorer substitutes (as filemanager): http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=95 jaclaz

@clodhoppers18 Since you are part of a company, you might be also interested in COMMERCIAL apps, (unaffordable by us "amateurs"), have a look at this one: http://binaryresearch.net/products/the_uni...imaging_utility jaclaz

Also, SIV and SIW could be useful: http://siv.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/ http://www.gtopala.com/index.html jaclaz

Hmm..., no, sorry. However, I am very partial, not being at all a programmer, to the Wizard's Apprentice: http://wizapp.sourceforge.net/ the exe is just 70 Kb in size and has all the needed features. Since the original procedure has been written in batch (no .NET installation required ) it would be very easy to "convert" it in a way that uses this little proggie's features, when compared to other viable solutions (like AutoIT). wimb, are you reading this? Have a look at my VDK pseudo-GUI batch that uses it to have an idea of it's potentiality: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...ts/VDM/vdm.html jaclaz

The "base" references are usually: Rob van der Woude site: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ The part about variable expansion/substitution is on the pages related to SET and FOR, check also the SETLOCAL one. http://www.robvanderwoude.com/variableexpansion.html http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntset.html http://www.robvanderwoude.com/local.html the SS64 help for windows commands: http://www.ss64.com/nt/ jaclaz

If you want, you can try (at your own risk, of course ) this little batch of mine: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/MakeBScmd-...EASE-t2362.html Latest version is here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=2362&st=20 jaclaz

For the record, there is this idea from d4vr0s to use a "virtual floppy" with grub4dos that should be able to solve similar problems (missing floppy to use the "F6" feature): http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=20543&hl= jaclaz

@Atheros I don't think that your idea will work by itself, but maybe combining it with the info from here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/294799/en-us http://www.mcse.ms/message1142291.html to it, it may work. I have no answers, sorry , just some semi-random thoughts. What if you mount with grub4dos a floppy image with a WINBOM.INI, will it be read ? And what if you use the NewBomINI directive? My guess is that the above can be combined with this idea from d4vr0s: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=20543&hl= You simply use different floppy images... jaclaz

If you have a 1 or 2 Gb USB stick, or another hard disk and a USB enclosure, you may go this way: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=61384&hl= Latest files are here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...1384&st=423 but do browse the thread's last three or four pages to get more info about the process. jaclaz

If I may, the requirements to make a great PC technician are just the same needed in any career, you need to be: intelligent curious hard working able to deal with customers and, finally: expert in the specific field I am afraid that NO course or Certificate will ever be able to give you any of the above features if you are missing them, the only thing they can provide is a base knowledge from which you have to start building your own experience. I have met "uneducated" people that made great technicians and people that thought that having being "certificated" would alllow them to say and do whatever they wanted while being paid big bucks per hour, rather obviously the latter ones didn't last long. jaclaz

Are we talking about Win2000/XP right? That error is due to the fact that you have a System on HD updated to a later ServicePack than the one you have on CD. You need to create a Slipstreamed CD with at least the same (or newer) servicepack than the one already installed. You can use nlite or autostreamer to easily create the updated CD, or use the manual way. Just search on the board for "slipstream" or "slipstreamed" to find some links. jaclaz

Yes. And yes, you can delete the "old" CD Rom driver as it won't be used anymore. Actually, the BOOTIMG.BIN is a 1,44 or 2,88 Mb Floppy disk image, you need a tool to manage this kind of files. Easiest would probably be using VFD: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html with it the image will be seen as a normal floppy drive and you can make all the changes you need. Once you have your edited image ready, you use whatever app you normally use to make a bootable CD using it as El-Torito Floppy Emulation image, and adding the BIOS update files on the CDFS part. On the other hand, you could start from the beginning, using Bart's package you mentioned: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#clean (the files you listed do not belong to it, though) The idea behind Bart's CleanCD is to have ALL files (including the BIOS update ones) inside the bootable floppy image, this way there is NO need whatsoever to have a CD Rom driver as all the files are directly accessible. jaclaz

What do you mean with "XP Live" ? A "real" XP on USB stick or a PE (Pre-install Environment like BartPE)? For the first the reference is this: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14181 (check the various tutorials in Dietar's signature) and/or this "automated" method: http://www.usboot.org/tiki-index.php For the second, just go to the 911CD forum and start reading different howto's: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showforum=37 If you want an XPish look and feel for your BartPE, you might want to use add-ons like Reatogo or XPE. Alternatively, you can try the LiveXP (but it is anyhow a PE build) project here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/nativeEx-and-LiveXP-f52.html jaclaz

You should substitute the whatever driver you currently have in CONFIG.SYS, see this for reference: http://www.techadvice.com/tech/C/CDROM_DOSSU.htm i.e.: @justas The link you gave is a rather oldish one, and the procedure is a bit complex and not guaranteed to work on any hardware, my FAQ page: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...SB/USBfaqs.html in FAQ#4 has a link to a graphical, simple howto with the HP format utility: http://www.bay-wolf.com/usbmemstick.htm jaclaz

Yep, it was just a small joke. : Sorry, I am not much into this kind of resource editing, maybe you can find some ideas in these elder threads: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=17210 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=22756 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=52108 though everyone seem to hint that only minor mods can be made to original setup.exe through resource hacker. jaclaz

Nice looking! (the screenshot I mean) jaclaz

The new version of ERD commander use the Server 2003 SP1+ SETUPLDR.BIN, that has a checksum to prevent editing. Read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/Solution_multibo...Bit_t58410.html jaclaz

Due to the new developments of grub4dos: http://grub4dos.jot.com/WikiHome I would use it'grldr, chainloaded from your "normal" boot.ini as follows: C:\grldr=Recovery Partition Once you are into grub4dos, you can do everything you want, something along the lines of what tinybit suggested here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...c=2777&st=0 Please note that by NOT installing the grldr.mbr, your drive will be "kosher", as it will have a "standard" 2K/XP MBR and a "standard" Xp bootsector, possibly in the international language of your install. jaclaz

Look here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16381 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=19109&hl= jaclaz

You cannot call "E:\BOOTSECT.DAT /Minint from boot.ini". Read these: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=26185 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=40604 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=47206 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=67360 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=18480&st=0 The above posts and links therein should contain all you need. jaclaz

Check the apps here: http://www.nirsoft.net/ They can run from within the .zip file, pspv should also be able to find the password in protected storage: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/dialupass2.html http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/pspv.html I don't think Asterisk logger works on newish dialogs, but it is still worth a try: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/astlog.html jaclaz

Yep, since WinPE is BORN as a Pre-installation Environment, using it to install a NT based system works allright, the point is to minimize the "catch", see this: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=644 but it seems like noone wants to take the challenge. jaclaz

What you missed is that in the referred thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/boot_install_USB...html&st=404 someone ALREADY figured it out, the method is tested, working, scripted, and is currently in final refinements (SATA drives, etc.) and betterings/adding features. jaclaz

That's strange, I have small HD images of recovery console working allright, directly or from grub4dos, both "directly" and using the 2003 RAMDISK.SYS to boot them. I have experimented with /minint, /CMDCONS and $win_nt$.~bt (but this works with image mounted as HD0) Some info is on this thread: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...=2692&st=10 Most probably it won't work on "FD" type of image, but maybe one can use once again the grub4dos mapping features to exchange drives? Can you post a DIR /S>Setupdir.txt of your 15 Mb image? I'll see if I can re-create it in a way that it works. jaclaz

Where is the problem? The original post has a detailed howto: http://www.msfn.org/board/Tool_Hide_consol...ndo_t49184.html There are also other tools, see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/alternative_cmdow_HID_t49103.html jaclaz