jaclaz

Read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25365&hl= http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=52131 Most probably your original boot.ini got corrupted, or you installed the newish BOOTMGR from Vista overwriting NTLDR. Please post which of the two you are using and where they are installed. Can you post details on HOW your hard disks/partitions are set, example: Please post the exact steps you took while installing Vista. With those details it should be possible to help you. jaclaz

Yep, don't want to put you down, but the web is full of people starting "their own OS" and generally never going further than a bootloader and/or a flaky kernel. There are some really interesting projects under development that do welcome willing programmers, here are a few: REACTOS: [url="http://www.reactos.com/"]http://www.reactos.com/[/url] FREEDOS: [url="http://www.freedos.org/"]http://www.freedos.org/[/url] FREEDOS 32: [url="http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/"]http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/[/url] Personally I would use Qemu as an emulator, the newish Qemumanager works quite well, version 0.71 has added accelerators, it can handle RAW disks images, Qcow and VmWare ones: [url="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/"]http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/[/url] [url="http://www.free.oszoo.org/"]http://www.free.oszoo.org/[/url] [url="http://www.davereyn.co.uk/qemu.htm"]http://www.davereyn.co.uk/qemu.htm[/url] jaclaz

for the hmth time: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...ndpost&p=364938 Sysynternals/Winternals NTFSDOS and Datapol NTFS4DOS are two different softwares, the first has a FREE READ ONLY version and a COMMERCIAL READ/WRITE version, the second is a FREE FOR PERSONAL USE READ/WRITE app. jaclaz

I am all for tweaking the last bit out of MS Operating Systems, but actually the real problem is the 32 Mb of memory. In my experience, the only thing that will be able to run on a 32 Mb system with acceptable speed will be a "lited" version of WIN98. The same Mr. Nienhuis, in the page linked above says as much: This is even more true in your case as laptop harddisks (swap memory) are, generally speaking, slower than desktop ones. My personal rule of thumb: standard Win95/lited 98 min 32 Mb, with 64 flies standard win 98 min 64 mb, with 128 rocks, anything more isn't really useful standard NT4.00 min 64 mb, with 128 rocks, anything more is welcome lited Win2k has same requirements of NT4.00 standard Win2k min 128, 256 is MUCH better, anything more is welcome lited winXP has same requirements of Win2k standard WinXP min 256, 512 is MUCH better, anything more is welcome PLEASE, don't flame me for this with posts like "HA!, I am running Server 2003 on a Pentium 133 with 16 Mb of memory, I just needed to make a few hacks!" I know that the above listed are NOT the minimum requirements, they are just what I found the minimum requirements for "acceptable speed". jaclaz

Yep, here on win2k got Windows key but not MS project 2002 one.(I haven't the full Office installed, I use OpenOffice.Org) Belarc advisor: http://www.belarc.com/ and Magical Jelly bean keyfinder: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/ http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml can both find it. @IcemanND Don't want to spoil the fun, but the latter works very well, it can print and save the info, though your code is much more compact, is it useful to have a YAAIATAEO (Yet Another App Identical To An Existing One)? jaclaz

You might want to have a look here: http://forums.techguy.org/showthread.php?t=391577 There are a couple of GOOD downloads linked there. jaclaz

You should check if the partition is NTFS or FAT32. Most tools capable of resizing an NTFS partition are Commercial, like Partition Magic, Acronis, or Paragon, the only exception I know of being NTFS resize (under Linux). Here is a nice and simple related page: http://www.linuxmigration.com/quickref/install/disk.html If it is FAT32 both fips: http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/ and the zeleps Partition resizer: http://www.columbianet.gr/~zeleps/ http://zeleps.com/ from a DOS diskette can work, as well as or parted: http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/...ono/parted.html included in most if not all Linux Live CD distros NTFSresize: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html (above link is down right now, use this cached page if you cannot reach it:) http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:UnS5foT...ntfsresize.html should be included as well in most live cd linux distros, relate to the above page for links, I can only suggest you, as it is a "one time only" use, a "small" one, like RIP: http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/ (23 Mb) if you have a CD-ROM burner or Partboot: http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tshiono/partboot-usb/ (two floppies) To create the floppies, I strongly suggest you to use this windows NT based FREEWARE utility: DCOPY NT 1.04 http://users.pandora.be/jbosman/applications.html I assume you have Winzip or another .gzip/.tar uncompressing utility, if not get 7zip (FREEWARE) here: http://www.7-zip.org/ jaclaz

You could also try a go with SIW: http://www3.sympatico.ca/gtopala/about_siw.html I find it a very detailed info program (FREEWARE). On windows 98 you might need to download and install WMI, see FAQ here: http://www3.sympatico.ca/gtopala/siw_faq.html jaclaz

Well, that could account for the bootpart.exe not working for you. You could try again using the "LBA" switch, if I am not mistaken, the limit of CHS addressing is 8 Gb. By the way, Gilles Vollant has released new version 2.60, with executables compiled for 64 bit processors and support for Vista new bootmanager (BootMGR instead of NTLDR): http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm jaclaz

How is the sandisk mini formatted? I hope NOT NTFS, is it? jaclaz

From the download page: http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/down.htm Yeah, sure, it's free for thirty days.... Later it is: http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/order.htm jaclaz

I did, as a matter of fact, I have both Firefox and Opera, on my machine Opera is faster. (the last character is a full stop) If you have any GOOD, TESTED links about how to tweak Firefox to make it faster than Opera, I would like to try them. I run at 1000 with my Via Epia, and it is not even a PIII, it's a VIA C3 jaclaz

Well, you might need to partially RE-WRITE your BIOS code ..... Read these: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=47773 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=37939 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=26185 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=47206 jaclaz

Read these: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=27296 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12326 Best solution is this one: http://www.lachiesadicristo.it/w98cd/page1.htm (now that Qualystem got its once FREEWARE method unavailable) jaclaz

Things are evolving, see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=44048 jaclaz

Read my posts here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=33030 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25365 To learn how boot.ini works and how you can edit it. jaclaz

VERY nice! Thanks for the link! jaclaz

Any benchmarks results backing this? Maybe I am not good at tweaking Firefox, but to me Opera is still "the fastest browser on earth". And at least there are two of us: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html jaclaz

Read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=32151 jaclaz

Yep, I asked for SATA or SCSI (forgot about RAID) meaning if you were sure you did not need an "F6" driver... jaclaz

Maybe this helps you: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12811 jaclaz

hmmm, is your (internal) HD either SCSI or SATA? jaclaz

Once you have opened the "Command Prompt" window, (and yes, it is not actually DOS), you just press ALT+ENTER to make it full-screen (ALT+ENTER again to switch back to window). As said, some DOS applications WILL work, others WILL NOT. A good working emulator you can try is DOSBOX: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 though aimed to games, it will run an incredible number of other DOS programs. Don't forget a GUI frontend to it: http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.p...DOSBoxFrontends jaclaz

Well, maybe is a bit too "radical". I am not at all an expert with GRUB (the bootloader that comes with most Linux distros), but it seems like there is the possibility of "boot from another device". Of course loading the OS has to go through syslinux/memdisk. Here is a method to how to make a floppy to boot from an USB device, I presume that "installing" the floppy on the HD should be possible: http://www.8ung.at/spblinux/ http://home.tele2.ch/spblinux/bootdisk/bootdisk.txt As said I am not an expert on this, but it "should" be possible. jaclaz

Here is what you need: http://www.netbootdisk.com/ jaclaz