jaclaz

All these years thinking that batch files have that use .... whether you use good ol' batch file/approach by Fujianabc: http://reboot.pro/topic/10126-nt-6x-fast-installer-install-win7-directly-to-usb-external-drive/ or the newish nice tool by JFX: https://msfn.org/board/topic/149612-winntsetup-v392/ you can add the needed offlinereg commands after they run, the Winntsetup has: and also: that may (or may not) do what you need/want to do. jaclaz

Offline Registry Editor: http://reboot.pro/files/file/313-offlinereg/ jaclaz

Which is the actual logical impossibility. Everything in Windows 10 is intentionally made to make possible ONLY "visions" that conform (to a certain extent) on what the good MS guy's vision is, by making each and every "customization" a (greater or lesser) PITA or by silently reverting or blocking it at next update. And it is only natural that the people that don't have issues are much less vocal than people that have them, after all there is an unwritten and unsigned contract about the OS being able to just do whatever an OS is supposed to do. I mean, noone writes about (say) Ford telling how good it is that his/her new Fiesta engine started this morning, while you might find someone blaming the battery (or the alternator, or whatever) because the car did NOT start this morning. Cars are supposed/expected to start EVERY morning. jaclaz

... and a disk on a raid controller when out of the array has nothing to do with a JBOD setup, which is another thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-RAID_drive_architectures#JBOD Even grammatically, you cannot make a "bunch" from a single disk. An image is worth a thousand words: jaclaz

You are welcome. Another happy bunny in the basket : http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/128727-cant-access-repair-my-pc-option-via-f8-startup/?p=828512 jaclaz

But here we are speaking specific, detailed, Asus Z87-A (the OP posted this info), which comes with Intel Rapid Storage, which - last time I checked - allowed just fine to make a RAID volume out of two or more disks leaving the boot/system drive alone. I doubt you will ever be able to find "JBOD" anywhere on Intel or Asus related documentation. jaclaz

@Trip 2 disks or 3 disks? ;dubbio: Who talked of JBOD? @Messerschmitt Which kind of RAID? (0 or 1 only possible with two disks) jaclaz

Yep , but there are both nullum ab initio and nullum ex lege, they are similar but not exactly the same. jaclaz

Hmmm. Which is good, as they are also IMHO not any of such. The possible issue is IMHO only with the means by which these rules are enforced. Well, here there are two distinct problems (not specific to the case at hand, only general). #1 is informed, explicit, consent #2 is legality of the rules jaclaz

... when what? I don't think I ever downloaded (let alone used) the nice thingy by Bigmuscle, let alone particularly private/experimental builds. In any case it could be that it was one of those (long) periods when my crystall ball is in the workshop for maintenance and tuning and I have only I-Ching available, that as you well know I ma not very good with ... If I get this right BigMuscle has embedded in his program a code, let's call it conventionally a "serial number" which makes him able to identify the user , and - at his discretion, in this case when the user misbehaves, but there could well be other reasons - allows him to identify the user account and block it. No problem whatsoever with the blocking on the account part, but I have some perplexities about the identifying part. (and on the current "public" discussion on the user behaviours). I concur, though not entirely (i.e. about the nonsensical or arbitrary, though this is seemingly not the case, as it seems to me a more than legit request by an Author to not disseminate particular builds). jaclaz

Good to know. jaclaz

You have to understand the basic ideas behind the procedure, your priorities are meaningless, no offence intended , but if you severely cut your hand, the priocedure is stopping the bleeding first thing and your priority of (say) cleaning the knife because blood may stain the blade is secundary. Making an image is not a "bonus" it is the BASIC, FIRST, NEEDED step. Your drive is NOT functioning (otherwise we wouldn't be here talking about it). Maybe (and I have to underline maybe) it is possible to make an image (possibly partial) of it on some surely working media and then proceed to attempting the recovery of the files. Attempting to do so on the original disk drive (malfunctioning), unless the issue is a really trivial and logical one, won't work or even if it will work will take ages. Once (hopefully) you will have the image, there are two ways to proceed (it depends also on the actual contents of the image and the type of corruption): 1) file system oriented recovery <- this is the approach that would give the "best" results IF it works 2) file oriented recovery (or "direct file carving")<- this is the approach that needs to be used if the above fails and it may produce some good files BUT you will lose path and filename jaclaz

Yep, DMDE would do nicely (and the Windows version is actually GUI) but maybe it is a little bit too complex for just making the image, it may well be used later for analyzing the image and/or recovering the data (hopefully) Under Windows I would suggest DataRescueDD: https://www.datarescue.com/photorescue/v3/drdd.htm for the imaging, because it has some distinctive features allowing (if needed) the making of partial images and "reading backwards" (something that even if it does sound funny, is sometimes actually useful on problematic media). jaclaz

Loosely, the "RAW" may depend on an actual (serious) hardware failure (such as a broken head), on trivial hardware failure (such as a misreading/corruption of a single sector) or on a purely "logical" issue (such as a wrong byte value in the MBR). The standard procedure is to first thing make an image (dd-like or "forensic sound") of the old disk[1], you will need another, surely working hard disk, slightly bigger. Depending on how functional the failed hard disk is, you may succeed using a "normal" imaging tool (like dd or similar) or you might need a tool with "special" features (such as ddrescue or similar). If the disk is not functional, it is simply game over. Maybe (and I have to underline maybe) a professional might be able to fix hardware issues (and also recover the pictures or at least part of them), but it is not possible to know unless the issue is diagnosed. jaclaz [1] provided that it actually still works, even if slowly, the "HDD keep crunching for a 1-2 seconds, then stopping for like 6-7, then again 1-2 seconds, rinse and repeat" is NOT a good sign,

There are two (separate and different) issues as I see it. 1) your "old" install on the SSD is missing the profiles (that are on the hard disk) 2) your hard disk filesystem is "damaged" If you manage to recover the profiles from the hard disk (#2) and you replace the hard disk, you will also solve #1. You need a hard disk of same (or bigger) capacity as the problematic one (to replace it) + another one bigger than it (to save the temporary image) and you need to attempt a disk recovery. Then if the recovery of at least the profiles is successful, you will be able to boot again the old install from the SSD + new hard disk. Otherwise you may try to reset your user profiles on "C:\" . The actual guide/instructions you used to "move" the profiles out of the SSD and into the hard disk are the ones in this other thread/post, right? https://www.overclock.net/forum/355-ssd/1133113-how-move-windows-7-vista-user-program-data-folders-pre-user-creation.html#post15181216 In any case, since you are going to alter manually the contents of the SSD, you would better make an image of it. (so you will need a hard disk with enough free space as the size of the SSD). Then you should try this: https://www.nextofwindows.com/fixing-user-profile-cannot-be-loaded-issue-in-windows-7 jaclaz

Sure. I have been using computers for some more time than you, adopting similar techniques (with similar results ) but of course ours is just "survivor bias" (at least in the perverted minds of the new generation of geniuses that is populating the tech scene). jaclaz

Because you know, issues are in the browsers ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/11/major-sites-running-unauthenticated-javascript-on-their-payment-pages/ ... just sayin' ... jaclaz

Usual note about the usual (mis-) use of legacy: https://jdebp.eu/FGA/legacy-is-not-a-pejorative.html jaclaz

http://fontinuse.blogspot.com/p/windows-2000-logo-font.html jaclaz

Very "old" CF cards could have been 5 V or 3.3 V (to be picky some PCMCIA cards were 5 V and some were 3.3 V, whilst CardBus ones were 3.3 V only), it was a mess with sockets and "notches": AFAIK CFast cards are 3.3 V only and all have the same pinout/connection, so (hopefully) no similar issues anymore. jaclaz

Well, I believe it depends on the source (not the code source, the source of the actual OS install files). You probably are using a "debug build" and not a "retail/final" one. jaclaz

No experience, but this product sheet (PDF) seems to contain a lot of good things to know: http://www.advantech.com/products/todatasheet/ce635fe9-06c9-499f-82c2-7574e4f7330a The *connector is of course different from the old one, essentially good ol' CF cards were an (unmodified) IDE/ATA bus, the CFast is "pure" SATA. The power voltage is 3.3V for CFast, so most probably the converter/chip you noticed is a DC-DC step-down converter. I presume you have something like these [1]: https://www.addonics.com/products/adsacfastb.php in mind. But the actual "only" advantage of a CFast Card (AFAICT) is its reduced size (or of course you need it if you have a device, such as a camera that uses CFast as media), otherwise a plain SSD with an adapter *like* this one (internal): https://www.addonics.com/products/udd25su3.php or this one (external): https://www.addonics.com/products/pu25eu3.php would do IMHO nicely, while leaving you more "flexibility" of using "also" CFast cards. jaclaz [1] Only for the record, I have no connection whatsoever with Addonics, but in my experience they always provided me with good hardware at what I beleive is a "fair" price.

Good If you can, let us know how it went. jaclaz

And is it surprising? jaclaz

Well, I find it a "legit" question (as long as noone asks why I run XP SP2 ). jaclaz