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happy it worked! jaclaz

You can try what I suggested here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=52572&hl= NOT guaranteed to work! jaclaz

Hey, take it easy, you'll have to "learn" a bit to go on. Press Start button Select programs Select Accessories Select Dos Prompt (or Command Prompt, or something like that, I am not running XP so I don't remember the exact name) A window with black background will pop up (if you cannot find it, do the following): Select Start button Select Run Type in the box "cmd" (without quotes) and press ENTER or click on button The window will have a prompt (something like C:\> and a blinking cursor, possibly an underscore) Click inside the window then type: chkdsk /F and press ENTER If it does not solve proble, re-run it as chkdsk /F /R Note, the above will check the system partition, if you wish to run it on another drive you have to specify the letter for the drive, i.e. chkdsk C: /F chkdsk D: /F etc. etc. Have a look at these for reference: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/Int...ompt-tut76.html http://www.updatexp.com/windows-xp-chkdsk.html Let us know how it went. jaclaz

ROTFLMAO! jaclaz

There is this procedure, be warned that sometimes works, sometimes does not: 1) Take the HD out of the "not installing" PC and put it on the other one 2) Phisycally unplug (or disable in BIOS) your "normal" HD and install Windows on the "other" HD 3) Select "Standard VGA" as video card 4) Once Windows is installed and running, go to device manager and remove, one by one, EVERYTHING, except: Hard disk Video card (VGA) Keyboard Mouse 5) Switch PC off 6) Put back HD to the "not installing" PC and switch it on 7) You will probably experience some re-boots 8) Do a REPAIR ( R ) install from CD, if needed 9) Let windows re-detect new hardware, give it, if needed, new drivers BE VERY AWARE of the existence of different Hardware Abstraction Layer dll's (HAL.DLL): http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;EN-US;237556 You might want to add various boot.ini lines with the /HAL= switch: http://www.sysinternals.com/Information/bootini.html to cover the event that the HAL.DLL installed on one PC is not the same required by the other. jaclaz

No problem if you don't have a floppy. Get Virtual Floppy from here: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html Download ANY 1.44 Mb floppy image, or create an empty one with this tool: http://www.nu2.nu/bfi/ Mount the image with VFD and you can use the DATAPOL install routine. Have a look here for more floppy/disk image related tools: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=11096 There are some problems/incompatibilities with using freedos and ntfs4dos: http://www.google.com/search?q=ntfs4dos+freedos I cannot be more precise as I never tested them together. jaclaz

Read here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=30998 NTFSDOS is Winternal/Sysinternal's Commercial (Read/Write) App - Freeware (Read only) NTFS4DOS is Datapol's FREEWARE Read/Write solution MUCH smaller! (under 100 Kb) or you could use the "Captive" way: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ with a mini distro of linux http://www.inside-security.de/INSERT_en.html or another mini distro of linux (not using "Captive"): http://www.plop.at/page_en_4.html or use a React-OS bootable LIVE CD ISO image: http://www.reactos.com/ size is 9888 kb, that should just fit in 10Mb (not sure if latest version supports Read/Write NTFS, though) jaclaz

Nice! jaclaz

Here is a thread where I posted reference to some "Unattended 98" reference I could find on MSFN and elsewhere: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=40303 jaclaz

Have a look here: http://www.tacktech.com/software.cfm (CD-compares) http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=101 http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=103 http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=104 jaclaz

Well, it MUST be somewhere, I don't think it is created from thin air! The boot logo is INSIDE the win98 IO.SYS file http://www.easydesksoftware.com/common.htm#logos Not to see it, you must set the value Logo=0 in file MSDOS.SYS (you can edit it with Notepad) http://www.easydesksoftware.com/msdos.htm Reference: http://support.microsoft.com/?id=151667 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/118579/EN-US/ About the main problem, I cannot help you, I quite frankly cannot understand why you won't use a CD-ROM driver in your system, if you have problems with MSCDEX, why don't you use SHSUCDX: http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/shsucdx/ On the other hand, your approach is very interesting, please post progress/results. If you are on Win2K/XP I suggest you use a HD image instead of an actual HD. You can use the Ken Kato driver: http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vdk.html#top and (optionally) my pseudo GUI: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...ts/VDM/vdm.html Later, you can (instead of burning on a CD) use qEMU, see this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=48629 to test the .ISO image. Also, you might want to experiment with this: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=8955 and with the original eltorito.sys by Bart: http://www.nu2.nu/eltorito/ http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#cdromsi jaclaz

I don't know much about Vista, but it looks like it is using ANOTHER bootloader, NOT NTLDR. If you ran fixboot/fixmbr, from within XP, you probably overwrote references to the new bootloader BOOTMGR with ones to NTLDR. The fixntfs utility "should" be able to correct this, see here: http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/post-468184.html (I suppose it does, but you'll have to find the correct switch) Also, if it works like elder versions, you may have the option of an ® Repair install. jaclaz

Yes, of course the "real" solution would be a farm of SCSI drives, but prices are way too expensive. Cheers, jaclaz

Not to put you down or anything, but wouldn't be an option to use a dedicated system? Just an idea, bu this is really cheap (less than the price for XP): http://www.rebyte.com/content/view/122/25/ Also, keep an eye on this: NASLITE http://www.serverelements.com/ RAID support is expected in next releases jaclaz

Here you can find the meaning of standard BIOS beep codes: http://www.wimsbios.com/HTML1/faq.html#q18 jaclaz

Read these here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=49892&hl= http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=49626&hl= http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=40299&hl= And this on 911CD forum: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12326 jaclaz

@dirtwarrior I don't want to be rude or anything, but maybe this time you deserve a good ol' "RTFM": http://www.sky.franken.de/explorer/#install jaclaz

No there are "standard" precompiled binaries here: http://www.sky.franken.de/explorer/download.html only, they are not up to date with latest changes, binaries are dated 21/05/2005 jaclaz

Actually it all depends on motherboards BIOS, see here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=12810&hl= @zxian FAT16 is MORE efficient that FAT32 on smaller volumes, see here: http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs_vs_fat.htm The bottleneck is NOT the USB2 bus speed, but the read/write speed of the Flash DiIsk memory or of the controller chip, i.e. an USB hard disk will normally be FASTER than an USB flashdisk on the same machine. See here for performance comparison of different USB flashdisks: http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/flashd...wen-xmicro.html jaclaz

See my post in this thread: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=33030 and related links, particularly this one: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=25365 Windows NT based systems, including XP, can be installed to both a logical volume inside an extended partition and to a primary partition, as long as there is a bootanle active primary partition with the files listed in the posts I linked to. See this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=34761 About the idea of "ghosting" an image to another partition it WILL NOT work, not because the partition is logical/extended, but because MANY paths in windows NT based systems are ABSOLUTE, i.e. something like C:\WINDOWS\ so the problem lies in the different LETTERING of the partition. See this: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=35329 http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=23484 It can be done, but it's not straightforward at all: http://www.petri.co.il/change_system_drive..._windows_xp.htm http://www.dougknox.com/tips/xp_drive_letters.htm jaclaz

Well, the "correct" way is of course the use of a repackaing tool, like the said Wininstall. There are however a few "quick and dirty tricks" (that sometimes work and sometimes don't) 1) Try running the setup.exe with the /x switch, most will just extract the .msi 2) Try opening the setup.exe with winRAR, most are selfextracting -exe made with it 3) Try running the exe then look in your %TEMP% or %TMP% folder for the extracted .msi (or in some other folder), see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=9632 jaclaz

There is ROS explorer, still in development, though: http://www.sky.franken.de/ http://www.sky.franken.de/explorer/ jaclaz

It looks like a really interesting approach. Thanks to both : hp38guser a06lp jaclaz

An URL blocking OPEN SOURCE app: http://www.junkbuster.com/ijb.html http://www.privoxy.org/ About all the other features, easier way is to block the ports those apps use, with a firewall like app, here are a few: http://programmerworld.net/personal/firewall.htm http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6807 http://osswin.sourceforge.net/#firewall http://www.modsecurity.org/ Googling for "open source" firewall will give you hundreds of interesting results. jaclaz

No, there is no known way to avoid the USB reset during boot, unless you use the Windows 2003 files, see here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=6713 http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=10806 jaclaz