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And as a corollary a quick FAT16 vs FAT32 vs NTFS table: http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm I have read somewhere that on both Win9x and NT/2k/XP cluster size should be 4 kb (as in NTFS) because it matches the size of a "page" on I386 architecture. Bigger sizes appear to slow performance less than smaller ones. It seems like the new "standard sector" size will be 4,096 bytes instead of 512: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=6076 Doc: http://www.idema.org/_smartsite/modules/lo...ta_file_id=1259 jaclaz

In my opinion the G7 is not even comparable to the MX, it has far superior resolution and besides it appears to have a spare battery: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products...CONTENTID=10716 and independent x/y sensitivity, that could be quite useful. It's not cheap, though. jaclaz

The arcpath in second entry in first boot.ini appears to be incorrect, should actually be: Check this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25365 and links therein, basically if you use the "multi" syntax like in multi(X)disk(Y)rdisk(Z)partition(W)\<winnt_dir> X and Y are ALWAYS 0 (zero) Z is the number of the disk (first disk is 0) and W is the number of partition (first partition is 1) jaclaz

Here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=69211&hl= Another tutorial here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=18045&hl= jaclaz

Not on XP, but yes, on Win2K I managed to do it. The key step is doing the changes in kb249321 BEFORE those in kb223188. Of course the later "search and replace" in the registry has to be carried on with a minimun of patience and attention..... jaclaz

Well, no, it was tricky but it could be done: jaclaz

Something you could try is an alternate wnaspi32.dll: http://www.frogaspi.org/index.html http://www.frogaspi.org/products/frogaspi/faq.htm http://www.frogaspi.org/download.htm#frogaspi jaclaz

You don't "get" an .iso, you "get" an application to "build" one. BartPE: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ WinPE: (if eligible) from Microsoft Reatogo: http://www.reatogo.de/ Winbuilder: http://www.boot-land.net/forums/forums.html The easiest, that you should try first, is ubcd4win: http://www.ubcd4win.com/ jaclaz P.S.: Sorry dexter, cross-posting...

Ponch, sorry , I did not mean in any way that you are false or that what you said is literally false, maybe you just did not look hard enough. I didn't want people reading the thread think that it is impossible to do it. Bart Lagerwej, the author of BartPE, clearly states that BartPE is intended to be a Not for installing it to hard disk. However he gives the peinst.cmd as a plugin (used to be pehdinst): http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/faq/#9 http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/pluginhelp/peinst.htm that makes exactly that, but since it is not the main "scope" of BartPE, peinst.cmd has some limits. The option is still there (BartPE 3.110a, in the plugin folder), and people on the 911CD forum have found ways to better and "widen" the usage of PE on HD with their own tricks. About the fact that BartPE needs it's own partition, since peinst adds an entry to boot.ini, I cannot see where you get that piece of info. jaclaz

And, just for the record: Is completely false. It is perfectly possible to install BartPE on hard disk, and there is no need to have a songle partition for it on the disk, you will need a bootmanager like Grub4DOS, that's all. You might want to read these: http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?show...c=11150&hl= http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...c=18045&hl= http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?show...c=11226&hl= and generally search on the 911cd forums for more. However PE (being it BartPE, Microsoft WinPE, Reatogo, winbuilder HojoPE or similar) is NOT XP, it is a PE (Pre-install Environment) that can be tweaked to "look and feel" like XP. It has resource and time LIMIT and needs no activation. jaclaz

Yes, that's most probably how it will turn out. In a perfect word, people would NOT buy from MS because of DRM, and MS would be forced to remove it. I'm sure that the difference between the two "methods" to achieve the same final goal is evident. jaclaz

Well, EITHER that OR Microsoft doesn't listen to Customers..... jaclaz

Life. You will find out soon that same things happened as well 2000 years ago, have already been "coded", and, by knowing the past, you can try not to repeat the same errors.. Some internet results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.g. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=989106 http://www.answers.com/topic/festina-lente http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapere_aude For the missing ones, you might want some help from a friend or professor that knows Latin... jaclaz

Hey people, why everybody doesn't try to take it easier? This thread was started by a guy who did his best NOT to start yet another flamewar. This same discussion with exactly the same arguments has taken place n times on the board, and noone was ever able to talk another into changing his mind about Windows 98 or XP. So, what's the need of it? Why everyone doesn't go on playing with the OS, filesystem or hardware of his choice without trying to interfere with what other people are doing? And here is my take on this (in one of the n threads): http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=305464 jaclaz

hmmm, if I may, you might need to integrate your studies with some latin classics, in my opinion you could get some interesting points of thoughts from them, here is a good start: jaclaz

NO, how could I say that ? If you get the time to read my previous post, you will see that I said to my friend's son that he lacked the first two requisites, and that in my view the third one was very difficult to achieve. And that happened just a few days ago, before you signed in here at MSFN! jaclaz

@IcemanND Nice finds. You could also check places like libraries/university, unless it is a courtesy to customers, you will need something to keep track of the charges, similar to the webprint here: http://www.rice.edu/ITtutorials/owlnet/printing.html http://www.lib.msu.edu/services/printing/webprint.html http://www.willamette.edu/wits/resources/d...twork/webprint/ (though cannot say which software they are using, sorry) The easiest one is maybe now that most PC's have .pdf printing capabilities, to make customers to print to a "generic" PDF printer (read local file), then send the file as an attachment to an e-mail address like printer@myhotel.com and set an e-mail app to periodically check the account and automatically print the attachment.... For the few ones that don't have pre-installed a PDF printer driver there are several that are Freeware and redistrebutable.... jaclaz

Well, during the Christmas holidays I went for dinner at a friend's house and he asked me to talk to his son who had the idea to leave school and start a business along the lines of what you are doing. I talked the kid out of the idea, explaining him the problems he may face, founding my statements on three main points, beside others: 1) Lack of proper MS Certifications 2) Lack of experience with the Laws and bureaucratic requirements to start a shop 3) Lack of wide enough client base (volume of affairs) to be able to get a distributing agreement with MS at concurrent prices While the first two reasons stand, the third one, from your experience, appears like being not as rock solid as I thought. As I saw it, most people (those the just want a PC) simply buy the best deal (lower price) they can find on the market, and this always includes a Windows XP (generally Home Edition) OEM license, and the few ones that need/want something "custom" or "fine tuned" usually do that part by themselves as they already have the needed knowledge. jaclaz

Well, 10 licenses per week means some 400÷520 sales per year, that explains a lot. Though really your last post actually confused my ideas, sorry if I appear a bit "thick" (I probably am, ), but I still fail to see the general procedure, do you have also an agreement with Symantec for Norton Ghost and bundle it ? jaclaz

Well, it is more clear, though unfortunately not completely (to me). What the Client gets is a OEM license for a pre-installed OS bundled to the hardware you sell him, right? And as a favour (or added value) you make the backup copy of the install on CD? I thought that the above applied only to very large OEM's, and that smaller ones could only distribute "standard" Microsoft OEM licenses complete with CD and Certificate of Authority. I'll have to make some research on what is the minimum number of sales per year to apply for the type of agreement you have, I always thought that it had to be in the 4/5 figures range , haven't you got some link? jaclaz

Pardon me, but I cannot understand the above, could you better explain the kind of License Reselling Agreement you have with MS as a System Builder? jaclaz

Yep, FreeDos has some problems on some USB devices. They are said to be fixable, as they appear to be related to Freedos drive geometry autodetect and to a "magic" byte that needs to be in the bootsector, makebootfat mentions this: http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-makebootfat.html I never had problems with it on my particular hardware, but I can confirm that I received reports of failures with FreeDos from other people, whilst both "XP extracted" (read Millennium Edition) and Win98 Dos Files (IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM) work flawlessly. Another hint, if you don't have a floppy disk drive on your PC (nowadays quite uncommon on laptops), extracting the DOS files from XP could be a problem, there are a few ways out. 1) Use VFD from Ken Kato: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html 2) Use this program by codebeetle: http://www.gocoding.com/page.php?al=bootflashdos 3) Use this method inspired by the StarMan, focused by yours truly and actually put together by Nuno Brito to just extract the files and later use the HP USB utility normally: www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16745 (as soon as the 911CD forum works again, for the moment Google cache is here): http://72.14.221.104/search?q=cache:DXfWKb...owtopic%3D16745 http://72.14.221.104/search?q=cache:dlc3nN...16745%26st%3D20 If you don't have a 98/ME bootfloppy around, the problem might be FORMAT.COM, that is in the XP DOS disk, INSIDE the DELETED file ebd.cab, see this: http://www.911cd.net/forums//lofiversion/i...php?t18896.html http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:uSdTU...p%3Ft18896.html You will need a little knowledge using a data recovery program to get it. Or, even better, get the enhanced FORMAT.COM by Petr: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=85573 jaclaz

Why not reading a few posts above? http://www.denispetrov.com/?page_id=3 jaclaz

Well, actually, though I never had the occasion of using it, I had found that novell link a while ago, while trying to help another member here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=83032 But, at least from what is on the Novell site, this has been designed for Mass Storage Devices, while you seem like applying it to HID Devices (Mouse). So maybe something needs to be changed in source regarding references to "classes" of hardware devices. jaclaz

Just google for it, you will probably land here: http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Se...e/dp/B00009ETLF jaclaz