jaclaz

Does this happen with the old disk still in, or with ONLY the new one connected? If it is the first one, it may be a conflict of the disk signature, or it could well be something related to WPA, is it XP? Your next best bet is to do a REPAIR, along these intructions: http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm jaclaz

Something appears to be wrong, copying 8 Gb should take several minutes, not hours. I would try with one of these (FREEWARE): http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html http://www.pcinspector.de/clone-maxx/uk/welcome.htm http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/index.htm jaclaz

Follow DigeratiPrime advice: jaclaz

Cannot say if he removes them, but do have a look at Fred de Vorck's page and to HFSLIP: http://www.vorck.com/remove-ie.html jaclaz

Most probably this is COMPLETELY unrelated , but I found here: http://snoopy81.ifrance.com/snoopy81/en/tools.htm http://snoopy81.ifrance.com/snoopy81/dl_en/money81.inf A modified .inf file to use money99 without Internet Explorer (i.e. on a 98lite install). Is it possible that money99 somehow "calls" something in Explorer or related .dll's that in turn do some "weird" check on defrag.exe or on its Registry entries? jaclaz

http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!...!1665.entry Yep , though that is for VISTA, not for XP. jaclaz

Maybe a little OT, but I want to share this site I recently found: http://snoopy81.ifrance.com/en/protab.htm that adds some interesting features to "lited" 98 with 95 files, and details an interesting approach to continue using some features of the Win98 shell32.dll using it renamed to Shell32.w98 as some 98lite installs do. jaclaz

@toxic_97 MOST probably it won't work. But rest assured, no software can damage a device, though it may "damage" your windows install. If the question is "is it possible to make USB sticks working in win98 FE ?", the answer is probably yes, but I would guess that since you "don't have the time to read through 13 thread pages", you will have also not enough time to actually try learning and experimenting to (possibly) do it. There is a common replacement for "time" that is called "money", you can find someone and pay him for the time needed to develop such a solution, or I guess it's easier to search on e-bay or wherever for someone selling a Win98SE CD and license. jaclaz

Get latest release of Grub4dos, here: http://grub4dos.jot.com/WikiHome Grub4dos can be used BOTH as a "no-emulation" boot image for CD/DVD and as a MBR on stick. Thus porting the boot menu system between them should be easy. Unfortunately grub4dos documentation is still very lagging, your best bet on having the info you need is to search on the 911CD forum for posts by "jaclaz" (yours truly), "spacesurfer" and "diddy" containing keyword "grub4dos". jaclaz

Sorry, I am really not sure I get what you would like to do. An image containing more than 4 Gb of data will probably be something like 4 Gb big, won't it? If I understend the problem correctly, a possibility could be making a disk image 3.99 Gb in size, mount it with either filedisk or VDK, format it as NTFS compressed, then create the DVD file inside that partition. All info you need for making the above can be found on these threads, though seemingly unrelated: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...19056&st=40 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=19333&hl= jaclaz

@Rhadamanthys Take it easy, mate. ANY Microsoft OS that does not come from Microsoft's own servers, from an authorized re-seller or OEM is WAREZ. And here at MSFN we have some rules, here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=18408 of which the interesting one is #1: Now, as no one likes being banned, this kind of topics are NOT welcome. I trust you on your word that you might not have realized that Windows XP is Copyrighted material, as said in the first result for your given search link: but you won't get any help here in using/installing a pirated OS. jaclaz

Well, Mojopac is nice, but it is an alltogether different thing, it is just a way to make your desktop "portable" between systems that already run XP. See here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=86954 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=85569 Also, the "XP on usb stick" is NOT necessarily "portable" between different systems, if you need something that is "guaranteed" as portable, you will need something more like BartPE/Reatogo/UBCD4WIN/Winbuilder, i.e. a PE based system on the stick. jaclaz

You won't see it in the top part of Disk Management until you have a letter assigned to it. So, if you right click on the partition in the lower part of Disk Management you don't have the option to attribute a letter to it? As I see it, there might be different reasons for this behaviour: 1) Something "wrong" in the "DosDevices" section of the Registry 2) Network drive(s) already mapped to the same letter already mapped for that device in "DosDevices" 3) Some Vid&Pid entries in the USB section of the Registry 4) Disk seen as "Removable" (instead of "Fixed") and partition not being the first one. First thing I would try is this software: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html if it solves the problem, no need to find the reason for it. jaclaz

I'll throw in my personal choice: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/fr...eware/edxor.htm jaclaz

Actually that one, like all the other ways generated from this thread: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14181 DO work, tested and confirmed. A list of the methods is in this post of mine: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...181&st=1988 If I may, do start with the fully automated one you can find here: http://www.usboot.org/tiki-index.php However, the whole thread and methods are for install and run XP on a USB stick, not for installing from it, which was the OP question. jaclaz

Check this site for a laugh: http://www.ebolamonkeyman.com/ sometimes scammers get counter-scammed..... jaclaz

You are welcome. jaclaz

Well, of course you can do it BOTH ways, i.e. add an entry in Grub4dos for the two os and boot from it, or make some changes in autoexec.bat to have a choice when 98 boots. You need either CHOICE.COM (included in DOS/Win9x) or CHOIX.COM, see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=81722 In your case will be something like this: ECHO Which OS do you want to load? ECHO. ECHO 1. Puppy Linux ECHO. ECHO 2. Windows 98 ECHO. ECHO. CHOICE /C:12 /N Please choose a menu option (1 or 2): IF ERRORLEVEL == 2 GOTO :SKIP IF ERRORLEVEL == 1 GOTO :PUPPY :PUPPY CD "C:\your directory" go.bat EXIT :SKIP ::put your normal autoexec.bat lines here: ..... ..... ..... win.com You will need to edit MSDOS.SYS as to start Win9x with no GUI: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article07-021 BootGUI=0 Or you can use the CONFIG.SYS method: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/text/Loadlin+Win95-98-ME (just think as your "go.bat" as the "linux.bat" referenced in the howto) jaclaz

Batch is already done, here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=1659&hl= (as said, 2K/XP/2003 only, sorry) jaclaz

@Brando569 If you would have cared to actually read the link I gave, you would have seen that it is not a command prompt replacement, but rather a visual improvement to it. And this makes 260 views, no thankyous, and 2 "unfriendly" replies to this thread.... Guess that next time I find something nice I'd better keep the info to myself. jaclaz

Not yet, still have to find the time to "invent" or "find" a way to avoid (or restore) the deletion of files. Yes. jaclaz

@Pirates Thank a lot for the link to the .pdf. Strangely enough, it refers to this page: http://www.usb.org/developers/tools as source of the info, the "Company List" file "usb.if" , apart having "peculiar" separators appears to be made in decimal values rather than in hex. Thus you won't find "1516" in it, unless you import it in an a spreadsheet and convert dec to hex, and besides the list is ordered the "wrong" way (using dec numbers as they were text). I guess the info contained in the usb.if is "Public" so that if I attach here a .zip file containing the data in a spreadsheet, with hex conversion and ordered BOTH as Vid and alphabetically, easily searchable, it would be ok. On the page there is the recommendation to always download latest usb.if because " this list changes almost daily" but I guess that with this file one can consider himself "reasonably" updated. I'll think about making a small batch conversion tool to .csv.... EDIT: Ok, done, it can be found here: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=1659 (unfortunately for all diehard Win9x users it requires Win2k/XP) About the entries in .inf file, do download the 98 driver from Valgear: http://www.valgear.com/WIN98/PD1-SK6201.rar and get them from there. jaclaz usb_vids.zip

I cannot say anything about VBS, but if it was batch files I would make three of them and call them with a "START /WAIT" one after another, I am sure that something similar can be done as well, or even better make just one file that accepts as parameters IP of port and name of Printer and call it three times with "Start /WAIT" changing parameters at each call. jaclaz

Check this also: http://winner.windowsdream.com/ jaclaz

@eDOC With all due respect for a "Clinical Neurologist", I guess your attitude could be a bit more friendly. From your posts it appears like you were not able to use nlite properly and now you denigrate it without a real reason, and by the way giving no info that could possibly help brokenwall. @brokenwall Really it is very difficult to help you if you just report "it doesn't boot" or : To be able of (hopefully) help you, we need EXACT errors you get, NAMES of the services not starting, etc. As suggested on the other thread, nlite is a VERY ADVANCED piece of software, that allows for making things that are not possible with "standard" tools, and like any of these kind of softwares it needs some PC and Windows knowledge background and it has a steep learning curve. Some general suggestion I can make: 1) Get yourself some CDRW's 2) Try making just a slipstreamed build, with no other change 3) test it on a VM 4) burn it to rewritable media and test it on real hardware 5) If it works, make another build removing (or adding) just some (a group of) entries and loop back to step 3) until you find it not working 6) Partialize the items you removed or added und loop back to step 3) until you find the culprit jaclaz