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Read this: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16980 and these: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=17425 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=18031 Basically your windows setup on a .ISO file behaves exactly as a BartPE loaded in RAM (with files from Windows Server 2003 SP1 and later - i.e. the /minint switch) Hope that you can get the hang of it from those threads. Another method would be to to install on the Stick either Dos 7.x or win9.x, or even a smallish BartPE and use WINNT or WINNT32 to start the install see this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=47125 jaclaz

Yes, there is no way to use set /P with a default timeout selection. There are workarounds, see these: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/choice.html (using kixstart) or you can use CHOIX.COM, part of Horst Schaeffer utilities: ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utiltask/horst31.zip or the choice.exe that comes with the NT4 or 2000 Resource kit: http://www.ss64.com/nt/choice.html here you can get it as a single file: http://www.petri.co.il/download_free_reskit_tools.htm http://www.dynawell.com/reskit/microsoft/win2000/choice.zip (21 kb download) Also, LLXX is "partially" right, starting with Server 2003 (not XP) CHOICE is in the OS not in the RK. jaclaz

hmm...... 5 reasons WHY does this post appear as ADVERTISEMENT to me: 1) It is written in "oversimplified" English 2) It is the first post of a user with name "recoveryguru" 3) The company is situated in SOUTH DELHI (see #1 above) 4) 2nd and 3rd sentence are clearly "self promoting" ones 5) most if not all references to the company you can find in a google search are from the site itself, from free sites, from "connected" sites like this http://www.recoverybkf.com/ (same registrar) or from similar posts on other boards, see this one: http://www.theofficeexperts.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6469 strangely enough another 1st post by user "recoveryguru", you can find tens of similar posts on tens of other boards I cannot say if their products are this good, maybe they are, but surely their advertisement policy is really poor. jaclaz

You use the SYS command (or if you have already FDISKED the Hard Disk but haven't yet FORMATted it you use FORMAT /S): http://www.computerhope.com/msdos.htm#02 http://www.computerhope.com/syshlp.htm http://www.computerhope.com/fdiskhlp.htm http://www.computerhope.com/formathl.htm jaclaz

Happy everything is well. jaclaz

Maybe I am late, but check this: http://www.mirkes.de/en/freeware/batch.php a bunch of batch miniapps for win32/nt/2000/xp, including: (untested) jaclaz

Well, the fact that people trying to help did not give you the right answer does not mean that you are allowed to be rude. The idea behind these kind of forums is that people asks questions and people willing to help TRY to help, no result is guaranteed. I already read your post and, since this is not really my field of expertise and I did not fully understand your requirements, I refrained from posting an answer I was not sure about, but others, quite evidently "in good faith" tried to help you, and, as I see it, they do not deserve to be thanked like you did. jaclaz

Sorry, LLXX, I have overlooked your previous reply, and have to correct it: No, the 1.68 DMF format is explained here: http://www.winimage.com/wimushlp/wini1a1y.htm There are actually three 1.68 formats, all have geometry 2x21x80 and thus have a total of 1,720,320 bytes: 1) "normal" has 1 sector (512 bytes) cluster and 1 sector for boot, 2x10 sectors for FAT and 14 sectors for dirs, which allows for max 224 files in root, usable size is 1,702,400 2) DMF 1.68 "1024" has 2 sectors (1024 bytes) cluster and 1 sector for boot, 2x5 sectors for FAT and 1 sectors for dirs, which allows for max 16 files in root, usable size is 1,714,176 2) DMF 1.68 "2048" has 4 sectors (2048 bytes) cluster and 1 sector for boot, 2x3 sectors for FAT and 1 sectors for dirs, which allows for max 16 files in root, usable size is 1,716,224 Then there is the 1.72 format: geometry 2x21x82, total size 1,763,328 bytes, 1 sector (512 bytes) cluster and and 1 sector for boot, 2x10 sectors for FAT and 14 sectors for dirs, which allows for max 224 files in root, usable size is 1,745,408 I suppose we can call the format you mentioned a "1.76 DMF", just like: 1,474,560/1024/1000=1.44 1,720,320/1024/1000=1.68 1,763,328/1024/1000=1.72 we have: 1,806,336/1024/1000=1.76 I think this is the biggest format that does not use some "trick" like the 2m formats or the IBM XDF 1.84 format. Actually, strange as it might seem, the opposite of "normality" is true. Going beyond the 80th or in some cases 81th track appears to be a major problem with "brand name" drives, whilst "no name" ones behave better. However these formats do push the drive to (and beyond) design limits, so they are not dependable. Moreover, due to the drop in price of floppies (the media I mean), they appear to be of lesser quality than they used to be. I have used for a certain period the Naslite software that uses a 1.72 floppy and I was able to get about one working floppy out of three using new "brand name" media, whilst I had about 90% success with a few years old "recovered from gargage bin" used floppies. jaclaz

Nice, positive and friendly approach! I am sure that the people who tried to help you will do better next time you ask for something.... jaclaz

Thanks LLXX, do you also happen to know if it uses 1, 2 or 4 sector(s) cluster? (the 1.68 DMF format differed from "normal" 1.68 as it had two sub-versions one DMF1024 with two sectors clusters and DMF2048 wit 4 sectors clusters) jaclaz

@LLXX Nice app. Tiny, and has quite a bit of features, I can use the boot builder part. jaclaz

Did you try to put quotes to the names: should be: jaclaz

You can use either Tightvnc: http://www.tightvnc.com/ or Ultravnc/Ultravnc sc: http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/index.html http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/addons/singleclick.html http://sc.uvnc.com/index.php?section=12 Unlike PC Anywhere they are Free. jaclaz

Hey, take it easy man. Can you please give us some details, like: 1) which kind of USB drive it is (manufacturer/model/capacity/etc.) 2) which tools did you use 3) which operating systems you use/can use 4) how the problem developed the first time The standard procedure is to first thing make a byte by byte copy of the disk contents to a file, but you need to have (or be able to get) enough space on another disk. jaclaz

Also check this: http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/filedisk-iso-mounter/ and this: http://www.benlaufer.com/2006/04/24/filedisk-ua/ jaclaz

This guy jeffothy has put 'em all together: http://www.jeffothy.com/weblog/filedisk-iso-mounter/ check this also: http://www.benlaufer.com/2006/04/24/filedisk-ua/ jaclaz

Actually it is better to always apply polish radially, i.e. at 90 degrees to the "grooves", at least in final steps. Any mark that is radial or however not tangential to the groove tends to be interpreted correctly by the reader while marks and scratches in the same or near to same direction of th grooves tend to cause mis-readings. http://www.mcgee-flutes.com/scratches.html A complete guide: http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/3100/2006/08/11/271@125577.htm jaclaz

Yes, I may add that besides hardware problems, this floppy format, as well as ANY floppy format with more than 80 tracks CANNOT be made under NT/2K/XP/2003 due to the HAL and drivers. (and besides you cannot even properly format a disk under XP): http://www.denispetrov.com/format144/ See for reference my post here: http://www.serverelements.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=64 and Winimage's author Gilles Vollant: http://www.winimage.com/wimushlp/wini1a1y.htm And some links to (dos/win9x) programs: Nformat: http://toastytech.com/files/nformat.html fdformat: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/...til/fdfrm18.zip SmartFormat: http://members.tripod.com/ieeecrce/innovations99/tformat/ and to dcopy 2.8 (the one I use): http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html There is also the 2M program that gives even better capacity (but it needs a special driver): http://esca.atomki.hu/paradise/sac/utildisk.html ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utildisk/2m30.zip ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utildisk/2mgui19.zip But I never heard about the 1,802,240 size, the math does not fit: 2x84x21x512= 1,806,336 Can you post more details? jaclaz

From what you say, most probably there is a problem with the chip controller. As LLXX suggested you should try "reviving" it, but as far as I know the "Portfree Production Tool" is specific for i-create controllers, which are not used by Sandisk. Try using the Sandisk utility: http://www.sandisk.com/Oem/DesignSupportTools/ http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/File/OEM/Des...b-test-tool.exe jaclaz

There are a few ways to make a bootable CD: 1) The El_Torito standard, which involves using a floppy image either 1.44 or 2.88 Mbytes as "bootsector" 2) The no-emulation image, which involves using a special bootloader, this is typically used by Microsoft NT/2K/XP/2003 Setup disks 3) The Hard-Disk emulation this is an actually VERY poorly documented feature of Nero for 1) there is no problem, you just make a floppy image of the DOS floppy and you are done, just search on the net, there are hundreds of tutorials on how to use Nero to make a CD from a floppy image for 2) I may suggest GRLDR (part of the GRUB4DOS package) that can act as a no-emulation mode bootloader, that thus gives you all the power of GRUB for booting nearly every OS, I would use mkisofs to build a CD with GRLDR, but it might be possible with Nero too. Simply search fro GRUB4DOS on the 911cd forum, you will find quite a bit of posts/links. for 3) read these: http://www.geocities.com/freedatarecovery/ http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=19003 Check this also: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=735 jaclaz

If I have got it right, this should work: @echo off & setlocal ENABLEEXTENSIONS ::STEAMDIR DELETE ::by Jacopo Lazzari ::thanks to Rob van Der Woude for the examples, tutorials and ::info on his page http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ ::and to Simon Sheppard http://www.ss64.com/ ::----------------------------------------------------------- ::Usage: STEAMDIR ::----------------------------------------------------------- :: ::Following five lines must be customized to actual paths: Set SERVER_AD=\\10.2.7.2\ Set SERVER_SHARE=C_on_server Set SERVER_PATH=\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps Set SERVER_DIR=\NetFragz Set Limit=4500000000 ::Above five lines must be customized to actual paths Set BASE_PATH=%SERVER_AD%%SERVER_SHARE%%SERVER_PATH% DIR "%BASE_PATH%">NUL 2>NUL IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 ( ECHO Folder %BASE_PATH% does not exist! Echo Exiting batch... GOTO :EOF ) Set BASE_PATH=%SERVER_AD%%SERVER_SHARE%%SERVER_PATH%%SERVER_DIR% Set Number=1 :LOOP Set FULL_PATH="%BASE_PATH%%Number%" ECHO Checking folder %SERVER_DIR%%Number% .... DIR %FULL_PATH%>NUL 2>NUL IF %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 ECHO Folder does not exist... &GOTO :Skip for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir/w/s/-c %FULL_PATH% ^|findstr "File"') do ( set sizeline=%%a if not defined sizeline set sizeline=%Limit% ) echo Directory %SERVER_DIR%%Number% - %sizeline% for /f "tokens=3 delims= " %%a in ("%sizeline%") do set dsize=%%a SET /A Result = (%dsize% - %Limit%) SET minus=%result:~0,1% IF "%minus%"=="-" ( echo %dsize% is smaller than %Limit% echo Are you sure you want to delete it? echo Press Ctrl+C to abort PAUSE RMDIR /S /Q %FULL_PATH% ) IF %number%==1 goto :Skip DIR "%BASE_PATH%1">NUL 2>NUL IF %ERRORLEVEL%==0 ( Echo. Echo Folder %SERVER_DIR%%Number% is bigger than limit Echo but a folder named %SERVER_DIR%1 already exists! Echo Skipping... GOTO :Skip ) MOVE %FULL_PATH% "%BASE_PATH%1" :Skip Set /A Number=%number%+1 If not %Number%==31 goto :loop You must set your exact paths and size limit (in bytes). As it is, it skips ANY folder bigger than size limit, after the first one has been found and (if not already #1) copied to folder#1. Please adapt it to your exact needs and report (hopefully) success. jaclaz P.S.: Double check line breaks inserted by board software, this: for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir/w/s/-c %FULL_PATH% ^|findstr "File"') do ( must be on the same line

You seem not wanting to "install" Win2k from ZIP, but rather to "boot" from it. This might prove to be tricky. The main steps involved are however: 1) Make the Zip disk "bootable" in DOS (possibly 7.1, i.e Win98 one), it MUST be FAT16 or FAT32 2) Verify that you can boot DOS from it 3) add to it the win2K files If you are interested in the procedure, just say so. You will need a couple of freeware progs and some (let's say quite some) time to do the needed procedures. If on the other hand, you want to install win2k FROM the ZIP disk, you can have a look at this: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16713 I am assuming we are talking of a ATA/ATAPI ZIP disk drive, there is no simple/known way to boot Win2K from a USB device, though with a LOT of work and try and error it is possible. jaclaz

Of course it exists, it is called VDK: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vdk.html#top I wrote a pseudo GUI for it: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...ts/VDM/vdm.html Please note that the tool allows to mount a RAW image too. If you need (for any reason) to specify a disk geometry, you need to make a .pln file and open it with VDK, not the actual file of the disk image. Contents of the .pln file (a text file you can make with Notepad): example: If you made multivolume sets, you can use multiple "ACCESS" lines: You might want to run testdisk: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk on a thus mounted partition if you have problem accessing data in the image because of a bad partition table (of course, use a copy of the data). jaclaz

Well, a good start would be trying to follow the flyakite guide: http://flyakite.msfnhosting.com/ About UBCD, do you really mean UBCD: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ or you mean UBCD4WIN: http://www.ubcd4win.com/ (which is a good derivative of BartPE)? (both are covered in the guide, just use BartPE instructions for UBCD4WIN) If you have a problem with the guide, post here your questions. Once you have a working DVD made along the lines of the guide, and you will have in the building of it acquired the needed confidence with terms and procedures used, you can start exploring "variations". Here is a "condensed" and updated version: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=74862 (though examples are limited to multi-install DVD) If you use XP SP2 or later, do check this sticky: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=58410 jaclaz

How strange! Maybe some of the members here told them to change the link? jaclaz