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Only too happy to have been of help. jaclaz

Happy it worked one way or the other. Just for the record, from your configurations it seems like you installed XP without giving it it's "Press F6 to install driver" (which then becomes - renamed - NTBOOTDD.SYS), so that setup chose FIRST ACTIVE PARTITION of the IDE drive as C:. I presume that even with the IDE disk in, if you had the ACTIVE flag on the partition set to off the install would have been correct. Or maybe the flag on that partition in the IDE drive is set to 80 Hex that means Drive 128 decimal, which means to many Microsoft - and not only Microsoft - apps, that THAT is the FIRST drive on the system. jaclaz

If you drink three or four glasses of Absolute vodka BEFORE trying polishing a CD the whatever is in your mouth will be VERY like Alcohol, .....but you would probably lose interest in the actual CD polishing.... jaclaz

I don't recommend that. I tried it a few months ago and was not impressed. It is basically experimental software for people who like to tinker. It's not usable as a normal desktop OS. But if you want to create some sort of very minimal bootable CD then you might give a try. Phil Actually, if you tried it a few months ago, you did not try latest (fully working) version, which was released October 8th, 2005: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12326&st=53 I mean, what do you expect from Alpha/Beta FREE software, to work like a three years old COMMERCIAL software? NO, you NEED your own Win95 files and, from a legal standpoint, a valid LICENCE for BOTH Windows 95 AND Windows 98. jaclaz

Yes, most probably TESTDISK can do the trick: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=50179 http://www.cgsecurity.org/testdisk.html make sure you READ the docs before attempting using it. jaclaz

Most probably you have not correctly setup the NTLDR/NTDETECT.COM/NTBOOTDD.SYS/BOOT.INI Read my post here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14250&hl= and related links. If you still have problems, please post a DETAILED list of info on how BOTH 2K and XP are installed, i.e. which drive, which partitions, etc. and I might be able to help you further. jaclaz

...hmmm, don't think it can be done, but have a look here where some info is gathering: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=13205&hl= jaclaz

Other possibilities (just for the record): dd for windows: http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite/dd.htm Findpart, see my post here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...877entry89877 @cdob The length of the NTFS (complete) boot code appears to be 6 (+1) sectors long, see links in my previous post here and in the one on the 911CD board linked to above, sectors after the first 7 (0÷6) are just zero byte filled. jaclaz

On both MS-DOS and FREEDOS, you need a Long File Name TSR: http://wiki.fdos.org/Main/LongFileNames http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/doslfn/ Latest release and patches for freedos can be found on the home page: http://www.freedos.org/ http://www.free.oszoo.org/download.html Also latest version of DRDOS/OPENDOS: http://www.drdosprojects.de/ should be FAT32 and LFN compatible. jaclaz

Just as a reminder, you can use Ken Kato's VDK Virtual Drive Service: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/ http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vdk.html#top and (optionally) my pseudo-GUI for it, VIRTUAL DRIVE MANAGER: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...ts/VDM/vdm.html to load/read/write VMware virtual disks without VMware installed. Also newish releases of QEMU: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ http://www.free.oszoo.org/ (optionally with the great GUI from Dave Reynolds): http://www.davereyn.co.uk/qemu.htm can create VMware compatible disk drives. jaclaz

98lite is a commercial product, you BUY it: http://www.litepc.com/ and follow instructions. Or you can try this FREEWARE alternative: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12326 http://winimize.com/ jaclaz

Did you actually TRY it? Read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=55456 jaclaz

Cannot say if it helps, but latest (8.00) version of Winimage supports reading EXTFS 2 and 3 partitions: www.winimage.com jaclaz

Why do I have a "DEJAVU" feeling ? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=37402 (45 pages of posts on exactly the same topic) jaclaz

If you mean how do you put MBR BOOTABLE CODE into MBR, you can use: FIXMBR from recovery console or MBRFIX: http://www.sysint.no/Nedlasting/MbrFix.htm http://www.sysint.no/Nedlasting/MbrFix.zip and, optionally, my pseudo GUI for it: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.net/ http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...X/mbrfix0.2.zip jaclaz

Sorry, deleted, I gave some ideas, taken from Rob Van der Woude's site but they are for NT/2k/XP only. jaclaz P.S.: Actually there is a way to read values in win95/98, through some peculiar "side effects" of some commands, see here: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/ http://www.robvanderwoude.com/regedit.html Skip to the Win95/98 section there are links to : http://www.robvanderwoude.com/amb_cdrom.ht...dromDriveLetter and CHOICE usage: http://www.robvanderwoude.com/choice.html

Interesting news, thanks. jaclaz

This is the best "nearly what you need" I know of: http://gabrieleponti.com/software/ Send To Toys 2.3 Of course to send a "open dos prompt" command you need an argument, if you select a directory, this add-on works like the Registry Tweak posted early, if you select a file, it opens to the directory where the file is and types the name of the file on the command line.This is of course VERY useful if the file is a .exe, .bat or .cmd, as you just add the (optional) parameters and hit enter.If the file is not an executable, you will need to use a bit of backspace. jaclaz

Well, that's a clear example of a "Virtual" drive! Seriously, the EB5290 is the standard "jump" code for NTFS partitions. The "jump" code tells where the next instruction is to be found, so EB=jump instruction 52=offset (i.e. distance where to jump) 90=nop (No operation, just a value to "pad" a byte) As 52 hex means 82 decimal, and 5B hex means 91, "your" bootsector jumps 9 bytes longer than it should, unless the boot code you have is not the original one. Best option, as I see it, would be to re-format that partition, but you can try checking the following (you need a hex editor capable of opening directly a disk or use a disk editor to copy that sector to a file, then use the hex editor: 1) If from byte 54 hex you find values FA 33 C0, the boot record seems ok and probably just the 52/5B is an error 2) If from byte 54 hex you do not find values FA 33 C0, the boot record is UNKNOWN. here is a reference to NT/2K/XP bootcode: http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/M...tail.htm#ntfsbr http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/NTFSBR.htm With that reference and a copy of the bootsector of another NTFS partition, you should be able to re-write manually the bootrecord wht an hex editor. jaclaz

Just to make sure, download this uti: BEEBLEBROX http://students.cs.byu.edu/~codyb/ And examine the Bootsector of that partition, in the "Jump" editbox you should have "EB5290" jaclaz

Yep, and it has already been reported as WORKING!: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12326&st=55 (with some screenshots) jaclaz

Yep, I was referring to how the "real" NTLDR works. jaclaz

for the nth time Partition Magic is of NO use if the existing partitions/drives have errors! You might want to read this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=50179 jaclaz

Actually it is right there: http://www.grisoft.com/doc/289/lng/us/tpl/tpl01 or go to: http://www.grisoft.com/ click on "AVG Products" on the left AVG Free edition is 9th product from top. Any other "conspiracy theory"? jaclaz

Come on guys, original poster had his problem solved, and tubui's post was from APRIL I guess he solved his problem by now.... jaclaz