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This is not an unknow problem there is another thread that covers some of the possible solutions at http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.p...088&postcount=6 to recap it 1. try going into safe mode to delete it. 2. check the file to make sure it wasnt caused by a defrag error 3. hex it to check if there is a hidden sub - which prevents deletes If none of thoes work then you can use the reg and reg32 from command line. First you need to be "NT SYSTEM/AUTHORITY" not administrator, here is a tool called supershell http://p-nand-q.com/download/supershell.html it will allow you to have a cmd window that is authority. then just use reg to delete the key. If I ever have problems like this then usually being authority works. good luck. BE SAFE!! Make sure you CLOSE the supershell when finished!!

It will easily fit on a 64 meg card. Just remember to install the write filter, you dont want the swap file, and or HK to be on the stick. The sticks degrade much faster when they are constantly writen and rewriten. Also remember that you will not get it right on the first try, probably some application that you want will be missing a required dll or something. it took me seven tries to get Java fully functional under XPe and now it works like a charm. good luck. if you have question just contact me.

Robocopy is at http://www.ss64.com/nt/robocopyXP.html not too bad, I use xcopy becuase it has the network restartable and verify. Excellent to make sure that all is ok. also will copy hidden and system files directly, and can copy all the ownership settings in ntfs.

The example page http://unattended.msfn.org/global/examples.htm has how to do it and how to call it from runonce etc. I personally would recommend setting it something around a minute. If you find that this isnt enough time, for example if using the driver packs, then hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and start a new process CMD, then you can type shutdown -a which will cancel the current shutdown. then you can time it to see how much longer you need to make it.

1. see http://unattended.msfn.org/advanced/space_saving_tips.htm This will help you delete certain items etc. 2. Usually when you get cant find a file, the CD is bad. verify that the file exists on the cd and compare it to the one on the HD that you used to make the cd. I have had files that are the same size but not the same SHA1 hash. Check 3. The monitor shouldn't lock. but you can use tools like 1365VidChng.exe that can change the settings driectly from the command line. tool available at http://unattended.msfn.org/global/downloads.htm 4. integrating RAID drivers can alwasy be a little tricky. Try doing a simple CD with no extras following the guide at http://unattended.msfn.org/intermediate/drivers/raid.htm very carefully. also if you want look up driver packs in this forum and look at the directions on how to make your own. 5. Dont, just driver packs. If you are unconcerened about size you can fit all five sections of the driverpacks on a CD. Then use another for program installation, or fit it all on one DVD. Driver packs at http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=30190 Then go to the website to get. Directions are easy. 6. There are good lists in the unattened sticky section on this forum. http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=42066 this is a registry tweaks creation tool, and can be a good guide on how and where to start. 7. I dont think that c is included in SP2 I think that is is b, but i am not sure. If you are woried then just install it in your runonce commands. Just get the network install, unzip into its own directory and you should have 9 files. Then just running a dxsetup.exe /silent will install it. 8. Search in the forums. You will find lots of ways of doing it. hope this helps.

Specifically at what point does it stop loading / which driver? Also can you get into safe mode. Usually with driver problems you can still get into safe mode.

If that doesnt work then just use a tool like ntpasswd that will let you change any password. Change what you wish and then login. Then you can make whatever changes are necessary.

Sure, this week I have a lot that I have to do, so give me until the end of the week and I will start a new topic about installing XP from a USB HD.

Great for downloading XPe, it really isnt that bad to use, what you need to do is go to the support site, and download the video tutorials. Use a program that can capture the stream. Then this is what I did. I write thoes videos to a DVD (there are about 30) then I moved my tv next to my computer and went through all the tutorials. After about a day I was able to make a custom image. Now it takes me about 15 minutes to make an image and about an hour for each application that I want to put into the image. Maybe we would want to start a new thread for XPe. But you can get this tiny ~50 Meg with lots of functionality.

JBOD menas "Just a bunch of Disks / Dirves" It is like having all hd seperate, c: d: etc. There is no redundancy and no security. If one drive fails then you lose everything on that drive. So to answer you questions you Will be able to keep the data on the second drive that didnt fail. If you are woried about backuping data get a good burner.

www.doom9.org is a great place to start learning. they have a guide called analog TV capture guide. http://www.doom9.org/capture/start.html it works for using a vcr. good guide and will give you the basics. Also uses free tools so you dont have to buy anything. You will also want to read up on avisynth, they are a series of "plugins" that allow you edit the video stream, like denoise, change brightness etc. Then you need a good prgram to turn the generated avi to mpeg, and then onto a DVD. There are several free mpeg2 converters, most notably TMPGEnc 2.5 is a free version. Then you need to get a program to turn the mpeg2 into a DVD, there are several out there, this one you will just need to download and find which ones you like.

You can get it even smaller, but not directy on the media. Tools like litepc can get the install size down under 200M with full functionality. (with swap) Also if you really want to experiment then you can use something like XPe (downloadable) and build a custom image that runs exactly what you want for 20meg etc. If you use the downloaded version of XPe then you image / OS will expire in 90 days. Also, if you have specific requirments dont use XP, use 98 you can get a fully function 98 in like 30 meg. Most hardware items still have support for 98, so you shouldnt have too big a problem with hardware. Also with 98 you can get a boot time in seconds.

Sorry it took me a couple of days to get back, but I didnt want this thread to just end. Durex seemed very curt and I should have writen better on why I use a USB Hardrive setup to install from. I wish that I had started a thread like this. I havent used a CD in over a year now for installation. I boot and install directly from a USB removable disk. I find it a fast and excellent way to install. It is also nice in that I can use a diffrent computer and if I find errors in a script, or a silent install wasn't perfect, then I can make the modification directly on the disk, and try again. Very fast. As a matter of fact I am going to get a Firewire 2 drive just so that I can use it, then it will basically be at full speed. I hope this was clear enough. If needs be I would be happy to post complete instruction on how to make the drive bootable and how to get it so it looks at the correct place for installation. any questions please ask.

I am doing some develpoment nad have run into a wall. We have a service that runs every time the computer is turned on, but we want to integrate a product called ReadyOn. ReadyOn takes a snapshot of the OS, generates a hibernation file, and install a write filter so that the system root drive is read only. This way every time you turn on the computer it starts from hibernation, and is up and running is a few seconds. When we take the snapshot, the service is running, and then it doesnt know that it needs to be restarted. Is there a trigger somewhere in windows that I can tag an event on to to stop and restart the service? Somewhere something is tracking that the computer just came out of hibernation. I have tried googling, but to no avail, also tried setting up an alert in Performace logs and alerts, but cant find one that is specifically triggered from coming out of hibernation. Would love to know how. If I have to then I will write my own tool, but I would perfer not to. thanks

Correct, although the send link there is a little extensive. I would stay away from M-Systems. I have had to deal with them on a military project, and there drives are expensive!! BUT, incredible, and large. Another important thing is that it is much easier to boot XPe from other media, even a CD! XPe has other boot loader that you can choose from, allowing you to boot from anything you need, including read only media, which is actually what you want to do with flash drives. (You dont want to write and read so much from the drive, it just wont last as long) XPe is great, I use it where I work, we are right now finishing several embedded systems. Booting and installing from a HD is not that bad. I came up with the method above working at school and now I use whenever I need to. I use an external raid usb hard drive system from http://www.firewiredirect.com/ that way my image is raided and I dont have to worry about media or anything. Works like a charm.

I have installed Windows from both a USB Hard drive and a USB Flash Stick. It really isnt that bad. The bigest part, as mentioned above is that you have to make the device bootable. Believe it or not the easiest way to do that is with a Win98 boot disk. I first start into DOS using a boot disk from Ghost, that has USB support, let the device mount, then do a sys a: d: so that the device is bootable, then set the bios accordingly. It isnt that bad. BUT::: This does not work on all motherboards. The reason that we did this was we wanted a way to reinstall OS's for students during class. I was working as an adminstrator at a college and none of the computers had CD-ROM's. We found that we could only use certain labs for these classes where students learned all the basics of windows etc.

Hey, just thought that I would introduce myself. I am a system architect / administrator for the past 5 years. I worked in software development at Oracle. I have taught and previous to all that I did independent development. I also have extensive experience in scripting, both dos and windows. I have been a long time reader, and I finally have the time to help. A chunk of my time has been moved to enhancing open source project to help in our devleopment. So you can probably find me on sourceforge. I hope that I can be of service. I want to start some projects to help with what is done here, so am looking for suggestions on what software / projects would be helpful to the community. Thanks