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Do double check your BIOS settings. It could be that you have an ACPI enabled HAL, whilst it is disabled in BIOS. See here for reference: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309283 jaclaz
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There are quite a lot of them, mostly VERY pricey. Here are some: http://www.cardpos.co.uk/Keyboards.htm (last item, bottom of page) http://www.fentek-ind.com/minikb.htm http://www.pstc.com.tw/homepage/wireless%20keyboard.htm Do a google search for "small footprint" "wireless keyboard" or " mini wireless keyboard" and you will find many more. jaclaz
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Programs that don't need to be installed
jaclaz replied to Afterdawn's topic in Application Installs
As a POP3 mail app, I use this nifty little one: npop: http://www.nakka.com/soft/npop/index_eng.html jaclaz -
No, sorry, let's see if I can explain it better: on each side (head) there is a determinate area (physical space) where data can be stored. PHYSICALLY this area is made of TRACKS (i.e. magnetic grooves). LOGICALLY this same area is addressed as SECTORS. You cannot say how many physical tracks correspond to how many logical sectors, as this is managed by the Internal Disk Controller. The only thing that you can say is that each side(head) has in the example 63 sectors. Sorry again, there is no known (fixed) relationship whatsoever between Tracks and Sectors, see above, the only thing you know is that on the first Track (track 0) there must start the first Sector (sector 1). See previous answers.I don't want to complicate things further, but you must understand that the internal PHYSICAL geometry of the hard disk can be very different from the LOGICAL (addressing) one(which is the one you manage). From the Ranish's Partition Primer: jaclaz
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Dr. Mac, please find here some links about USB access from DOS. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=34410 jaclaz
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I suppose you are using the Motto Hairu driver with DOs aspi. Have a look here, might be what you need: http://www.freeweb.hu/doscdroast/ (it won't fit on a floppy, though, you might need another bootable media) jaclaz
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Yep it's just XP with some ink/handwriting recognition software added: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechn...y/tpcdploy.mspx from here: http://www.tabletquestions.com/faq.php?faq=tpc_os jaclaz
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Should anyone need a plugin for Bart PE, here is a link to plugins (on 911CD forum): http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7761 http://www.911cd.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7764 As said there to critics to this proggie: And what do you want from a free 1 Mb proggie, blood? jaclaz
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Well, when talking about this matter it is VERY easy to get confused. CHS is the old way (but still simpler) to address sectors. I'll try to explain it as best as I can: 1) Track 0 (zero) is the 1st sector in the hard disk (512 bytes long) 2) It's address is CHS 0 0 1 or LBA 1 3) In track 0 is stored the MBR (or Master Boot Record) 4) The MBR is composed of two main parts, see here for reference: http://therdcom.com/asm/mbr/MBR_in_detail.htm the first part is the boot (more properly IPL Initial Program Loading) code, whilst the second (the last 66 bytes) are the 64 byte Partition table plus the 55AA "signature bytes". 5) All FDISK tools will default the first partition entry to CHS 0 1 1 6) supposing that the disk (like almost all of them) has 63 sectors per head, this leaves the 62 sectors gap you mention: Total of sectors on Cilynder 0 Head 0 Sector 1 = 63 - 1 sector (taken by MBR) leaves 62 of them. Track as used in point one above is actually not a proper term, unless it is used as Track0 , which it is the only one that we know about. No one, apart from disk manufacturers, actually know how many tracks are actually on the disk, to say it better, track is a name for a physical thing, let's call it a "magnetic groove", of which there is a certain number on the disk's surfaces. This unknown number of physical tracks are identified and numbered, by the disk on-board controller, in an unknown way, then this physical address is "translated" to the "outside" (the BIOS) as consecutive 512 bytes SECTORS. Finally this address can be interpreted either as CHS or LBA. Actually on a disk there are quite a few more "tracks" than the ones reported from the controller. This is because on ALL disks there is a certain number of defective tracks, that are marked as bad by the manufacturer "LOW-LEVEL" utilities. I hope that the above does help. jaclaz
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By the way, the Windows 98 fdisk /mbr command will write, guess what, a Win98 MBR, NOT a NT/Win2k/XP/2003 one. The only ways to write a new NT/Win2k/XP/2003 MBR I know of, apart the utility from Kaares here are: 1) Microsoft's FixMBR (that will run in the Recovery Console only) 2) Ranish partition manager (that will work from DOS only) which writes a standard IPL code, not the win2k one You can extract the MBR IPL code from files on your Win2k/XP and write it manually with an Hex/disk editor: http://therdcom.com/asm/mbr/Win2kmbr.htm The very good utility MBRwizard by Roger Layton can read (and store) MBR data, then can write it from the stored file, but it DOES NOT create it as the above two do. To edit/replace the BOOT RECORD (not the MBR) there is this fine Bootpart by Gilles Vollant (that will have direct disk access under DOS only), that works on FAT volumes. A further step could be to make an unified GUI for the three of them: Bootpart MBRfix MBRwizard and for some other related utility, so that you have a complete repair solution. Every suggestion is welcome. jaclaz
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Yes, I think that the accent should be posed to the fact that in the setup mecnet exposed there is NO CONCURRENT use of the program (and license). So I would say that one license should be OK. (my two cents only, of course) To make sure, you could install it to a "common" partition, then use it by either of the double boot Operating Systems. jaclaz
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OK, guys, here it is: MBRfix GUI. Enjoy! jaclaz MBRfixgui.zip
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This might be good (or bad $$) news: http://www.prime-expert.com/flashboot/features.php BUT: jaclaz
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Programs that don't need to be installed
jaclaz replied to Afterdawn's topic in Application Installs
Have a look here: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ jaclaz -
Ok, I'll post it as soon as I make it. Doh! Stupid of me, I'll PM him, you are right. jaclaz
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I have used (mind you that I am NO programmer) this nifty little tool here: The Wizard's Apprentice http://wizapp.sourceforge.net/ the exe file is only 70 Kb Though it is aimed as a GUI overlay for batch install routines, it has enough options available to be used as a GUI to ANY batch file. See here the example I made: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...ts/VDM/vdm.html jaclaz
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Axcel216's: http://members.aol.com/axcel216/ jaclaz
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Programs that don't need to be installed
jaclaz replied to Afterdawn's topic in Application Installs
Foxit PDF reader (small and fast PDF reader) nPop (small POP3 mail client) -
ialmrnt5 is part of the video drivers. Make a google search for "ialmrnt5" or "ialmrnt5.dll". You can try upgrading/reinstalling video drivers. It could also be a "too aggressive" setting for memory, see here: http://www.computing.net/drivers/wwwboard/forum/3756.html jaclaz
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Choose D: for ProgramFilesDir and ProfilesDir
jaclaz replied to PatHibulaire's topic in Unattended Windows 2000/XP/2003
I suspect that is something related to the way your disks are partitioned, and how XP assigns letters, see here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=35329 Hope that helps, jaclaz -
I tested it a little bit. The only thing that seems nice is the ability to give more "power" to foreground app, at the cost (quite obviously) to really slowdown background apps. Maybe there is a misunderstanding between "speed" and "responsiveness". I made some search on the matter, it seems to be quite popular between gamers, but cannot say that's just because it "looks" nifty. The built-in benchmark is a laugh, it just starts and in no time says that system has accelerated (in my case 65%), it does not say in WHAT! Real benchmarks are a different thing. Here is a related thread on another board: http://forum.misec.net/board/3PSoftware/1091705057 that seems to me quite realistic. jaclaz
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Actually that I know of there are at least 5 methods, a couple commercial and the other ones freeware to access an NTFS volume. And another 5 or 6 to discover/change/reset the Administrator password. The ONLY way to really protect a volume is NTFS encryption, quite safe, but VERY RISKY as in case of corruption can be a problem to recover data, (and by the way NOT unbreakable). They may be "commom burglars", but they surely have a "geek" friend that does this. jaclaz
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I think the above only works with 2k/XP a.k.a. NT 5. Have a look here: http://www.svrops.com/svrops/documents/ntreg.htm http://www.svrops.com/svrops/documents/ntreg.htm#lnk11 jaclaz
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Cant RecongnizeCD Rom is it Windows somthing else
jaclaz replied to shielah's topic in Windows 9x/ME
Look here: http://www.buildeasypc.com/hw/howto/instdvd.htm and here: http://www.gen-x-pc.com/build3.htm http://freepctech.com/pc/001/installing_ide_devices.shtml jaclaz -
Cant RecongnizeCD Rom is it Windows somthing else
jaclaz replied to shielah's topic in Windows 9x/ME
No need for drivers. This sounds, like said above, a cable/interface problem. Also, double check in BIOS that the IDE channel on which the CD reader is attached is enabled. MOST motherboards built in the last 5 years will detect the CD-ROM at BOOT time, long before any OS is loaded. jaclaz