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Happy problem is solved. However it is very interesting, I use that utility normally, I would have never thought it had that "side effect"....but again, I have Admin credentials and am on Win2K.... jaclaz

hmmm, is it possible that you have something "strange" in the Registry related to these? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298503 but http://www.securepcsolutions.com/tweak/Sec23.asp More info: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServe...3.mspx?mfr=true Maybe some hotfix has changed the behaviour? jaclaz

Ok, I am PMing you my e-mail address, if the file is smaller than 1 Mb, please send it to me, I'll have a look at it and let you know. jaclaz

A great example of what? Please don't mix different things, one thing is lossy data compression, another one is lossless data compression, and yet another is making iso's with "duplicate once settings", either in CDIMAGE/OSCDIMG.EXE or mkisofs, which is obviously the case of this CD, otherwise, how would it "grow" in size when put on another filesystem: but that can be copied directly: on a normal CD? And "sparse" or "growing" files like the emule example is yet another one..... jaclaz

hmmm, why, have you got a FREE license for XP? (otherwise, the price is quite competitive) About 1,341 Mb, are you sure you nlited it at all? If I remember right, a normally (not too "forced") nlited XP SP2 is around 600÷700 Mb. Once you have reduced it to <1 Gb, you cannot just put it on a CF card, you will need to follow the procedures by SFiorito before referenced, using EWF, otherwise your CF card will probably last several days/a few weeks. jaclaz

I don't want to give you false hopes, but the "bjbj.2.2" you just posted, that should look as: in Winhex, is part of the header, and is always located at offset (decimal) 544 and the "........>" at the beginning appears like offset 16 of a word document. So it seems like the file is missing just a few bytes in the beginning. Depending on the size of the file, you might want to send me a copy of it, or put it somewhere where I can download it, so that I can have a look at it. Please PM me the info or your e-mail, so that we can find a way. But still, the fact that bintext found only those lines makes e think that very little data is in it. Maybe it is possible that some more data is "somewhere" on the CD, though it would be strange. jaclaz

Well, no, it is perfectly normal that you made a document with Word 10.0 and the last reference is to 8, that refers to the version of the .doc format, not to that of the application. (.doc formats are the same since Office 97, i.e. version 8) The problem appears to me the size of the file, how big it is? The offset 0001E45D you reported is in decimal 123,997 bytes, since the "Word.Document.8" is very near to the end of file, it seems like the file is too little to contain long stretches of text. Could it be that this is just a "tail" of the original file? Did you remember (approximately) how big it was originally? Have you checked in Winhex that the first few bytes correspond to the ones I posted? jaclaz

I don't think there is a function that can do that , I guess you need a small VB program that "scans" the range and finds the number. Table related functions find the first occurrence of a value in a certain range, so that a workaround is possible, if you can "invert" the needed data (i.e. finding first NEXT occurrence of a number) An example, if you have in A1:A6 the values: And you put in B1:B6 numbers: You can put in c1 the formula: and copy it down till C6 getting: i.e. offsets to next occurrence of the number. To get rid of the #N/A, change the formula as follows: and you get this: jaclaz

It's seems like there is a problem with it. A Word document STARTS with the following header: 00000000 D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1 ÐÏ.ࡱ.á and ends with something VERY like what you posted (+ some trailing 00's). So if the beginning is correct, possibly the data is still there. If the document was not encrypted, it should conatin all the text in plain format, in UNICODE or ASCII (i.e. the word "word" could be found as either "word" or "w.o.r.d."). Try using a text extractor, like this one: http://www2.objdump.net:81/files/foundston...text/readme.txt http://www2.objdump.net:81/files/foundston...ext/bintext.exe on the file, and see if it finds more strings. jaclaz

Sorry, but the question is not clear. Do you mean searching a range of cells and find the one containing a certain number? Use the function =VLOOKUP(lookup_value;table_range;col_index_num;[range_lookup]) Or do you mean parsing a text string, such as find the position of 5 in the string 123456789 ? Use the function =FIND(find_text;within_text;[start_num]) Or are you talking about a FOR loop in Visual Basic for Applications? jaclaz

Yes, some more hints... does the PC speaker (the internal one) beep at all? See this: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/n1014826767 http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win2000/t1014826767 or is it a speaker internal to the modem? (it could be that you have an ATM0 in your string?) http://www.ex-designz.net/pc_modem.asp jaclaz

Here is a step by step guide: http://www.thpc.info/dual/dual2konxp.html I have to disagree with pmshah, there is no need to use third party bootmanagers for a simple dual boot, but you might need a third party app to partition your drive. jaclaz

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269524 Yep, from that keyb: (bolding and underlining is mine) So, it looks like to prevent users to have too much things in their startup files, they removed the files alltogether, but what is the difference with empty autoexec/config? And, though the date of the article is most probably they took those times on a PII 400 Mhz, and with ATA33 disks, I don't think that with more performing hardware there can be much difference. jaclaz

FYI, CDImage is NOT a PD program, nor is it freely available/usable: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=88660 It would be much better if you would use mkisofs that has a similar option or the version OSCDIMG.EXE that is in the OPK. jaclaz

@Tarun @DigeratiPrime Yes, you are right, as seen in the before linked to old thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=56005 There are two methods to try and make a scratched CD readable again: 1) smooth/polish/remove the scratches with something abrasive, like Brasso or a plastic polish or some toothpastes 2) fill the scratches with something transparent, like Rain-X, car wax or even as reported on the other thread, hair-gel: http://www.om3ga.co.uk/2006/07/27/scratched-cds-no-problem First one, if properly done, should allow to permanently fix the scratch, whilst second one should be a solution to extract data from the CD. And of course, if the data on CD is REALLY important, there are professional "grinding" services and machines, like these: http://www.doowop.com/cd_repair.htm http://www.cdrepairman.com/ jaclaz

It is very possible that they are corrupt, not necessarily by a virus, it could be a HD failure, a filesystem one, as well as they could have been partially overwritten or "cross-linked", or it could even be a "glitch" in the recovery program. By the same principle, the drive can be unbootable for a number of causes, it's impossible to say that it does not boot because of a virus, unlesss you find evidence of it. There are tools to try and recover corrupted .jpg files, at least partially, but it's impossible to say if any of them would work on those files. Here are a few of them: http://www.officerecovery.com/pixrecovery/ http://www.clarity.net/~adam/recoverpix.html http://www.hketech.com/JPEG-recovery/index.php http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/Digital...y-Software.html but there are many more. jaclaz

Actually, it should be "BRASSO": http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=56005 jaclaz

Yes, that's exactly the idea behind the script, i.e. setting ACL permissions, the problem is that the path is "hardcoded" into 'C:\Windows\inf\usbstor.inf', so that it won't work if you have a different %windir%/%SystemRoot%. The only thing that should prevent installing the USB device should be if the device is not standard, i.e. it does not comply with either the eplicit vid&pid or the general Class&Subclass declared in usbstor.inf. Also check permissions on the tree above USBSTOR.INF, maybe something needs to be changed there, as said I am not an expert on this, but maybe some Ownership and Inheritance settings do override the file ones. A test you could make, if you can make a test install, is to setup XP on a FAT32 partition.... Another idea (again of which I have NO experience) could be using NTRIGHTS: http://www.ss64.com/nt/ntrights.html with the "SeLoadDriverPrivilege" jaclaz

You are right, my bad. My apologies to the good FreeBSD guys. I was actually thinking about Openfiler: http://www.openfiler.com/about/ but forgot to add the above link and the reference to FreeBSD to the FreeNAS link. jaclaz

Did you try with the suggestion at the bottom of the page? jaclaz

I guess that you need something like these: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=18480&st=0 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=86662 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=84411 I may add that mbldr, that used to be Commercial as OS-BShas been released as Open Source http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbldr and is currently a rather active project, maybe it is what you need. jaclaz

Don't want to put you down or anything like that, but why do you want to use XP for a NAS? There are specific apps (Linux based) that already work very well, like NASlite: http://www.serverelements.com/ or FreeNAS: http://www.freenas.org/ However, the usual reference for booting XP off a CF card are SFiorito's page and posts, here and on MP3CAR: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=70 http://osf1.gmu.edu/~sfiorito/eXPinstall.htm About what exactly to remove with nlite, you will need to make some experiments, it also depends on how big in size is the CF card, the rule of thumb can be one of these two approaches: 1) unless you have tight space requirements, remove just enough so that install fits on the media, use common sense, do not overdo it. 2) remove everything, and if something is not working, rebuild with the missing/malfunctioning component added Quite naturally, method 1) is easier and faster, while method 2) takes more time but gives the smallest possible footprint as final result. jaclaz

Well, not much fantasy in the title: CDCHECK http://www.kvipu.com/CDCheck/ recent versions requires at least a FREE registration for non-commercial use, maybe you can find a previous version completely free. jaclaz

Different FREE BASICs: http://www.justbasic.com/ http://perso.orange.fr/xblite/ http://www.fbsl.net/ jaclaz

Reference (with examples): http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ntfor.html jaclaz