January 27, 201214 yr Thanks for the reply jds, but i guess I wasn't clear. I meant CD and DVD drives, not a combo drive. Any disc (CD or DVD) tends to show up twice in Windows Explorer for some reason.I was researching a problem with Vista, the opposite to this, wherein the CD/DVD drive disappears ... and I came across a KB which describes your particular problem. Of course, now that I want to reference it, I can't find it. Anyway, from what I remember, it said to boot in "safe mode" and delete the invalid entries in device manager. It described how to determine which entries were invalid and which to keep (probably by looking for "this device is operating correctly" status text, but I'm not certain). Hope that's of some help. If I find that KB again, I'll come back here and edit this posting.Joe. Edited January 27, 201214 yr by jds
January 27, 201214 yr Is it possible to make the patch for Win ME, too? Till now I've hidden phantom drives. I have updated my PATCHPAR Program to Patch the Unpacked Windows ME IO.SYS as well. You will need to get the Unpacker from my Website.Let me know if it solves your problem.Hi Mr. Loew.Well, I decided to give this a try on my home PC and unfortunately, ran into a problem.My drive H: (in DOS 7.1, without loading the W98SE GUI) produced the following from a DIR command : Volume in drive H is \é)ÞŠ†¥pÊ Directory of H:\y‹³æ"bx 2Àí 3,273,781,586 06/04/89 11:37 1 file(s) 3,273,781,586 bytes 0 dir(s) 446.52 MB freeBy contrast, your earlier partial patch together with my favourite two byte patches to IO.SYS produces the following : Volume in drive H is 2-3-FLAKEY Volume Serial Number is 07EA-4466 Directory of H:\MUSIC <DIR> 14/01/10 0:43VIDEO <DIR> 14/01/10 1:21TH99 <DIR> 01/02/10 0:41CDDA <DIR> 31/03/10 23:03FTP <DIR> 17/12/10 20:06CAMERA <DIR> 31/05/11 20:56TEMPOR~1 <DIR> 01/06/11 23:26 0 file(s) 0 bytes 7 dir(s) 361.72 MB freeThe physical drive in question has the following partition table entries :06 FAT16 (Primary)E7 RS (Primary)0F Extended Partition (LBA)83 EXT2 (Primary)The extended partition has a single volume (logical drive H:) :0B FAT32 (LBA by virtue of the extended partition type)All other drives and volumes work OK with either set of patches.Joe. Edited January 27, 201214 yr by jds
January 27, 201214 yr Is it possible to make the patch for Win ME, too? Till now I've hidden phantom drives. I have updated my PATCHPAR Program to Patch the Unpacked Windows ME IO.SYS as well. You will need to get the Unpacker from my Website.Let me know if it solves your problem.Hi Mr. Loew.Well, I decided to give this a try on my home PC and unfortunately, ran into a problem.My drive H: (in DOS 7.1, without loading the W98SE GUI) produced the following from a DIR command : Volume in drive H is \é)ÞŠ†¥pÊ Directory of H:\y‹³æ"bx 2Àí 3,273,781,586 06/04/89 11:37 1 file(s) 3,273,781,586 bytes 0 dir(s) 446.52 MB freeBy contrast, your earlier partial patch together with my favourite two byte patches to IO.SYS produces the following : Volume in drive H is 2-3-FLAKEY Volume Serial Number is 07EA-4466 Directory of H:\MUSIC <DIR> 14/01/10 0:43VIDEO <DIR> 14/01/10 1:21TH99 <DIR> 01/02/10 0:41CDDA <DIR> 31/03/10 23:03FTP <DIR> 17/12/10 20:06CAMERA <DIR> 31/05/11 20:56TEMPOR~1 <DIR> 01/06/11 23:26 0 file(s) 0 bytes 7 dir(s) 361.72 MB freeThe physical drive in question has the following partition table entries :06 FAT16 (Primary)E7 RS (Primary)0F Extended Partition (LBA)83 EXT2 (Primary)The extended partition has a single volume (logical drive H:) :0B FAT32 (LBA by virtue of the extended partition type)All other drives and volumes work OK with either set of patches.Joe.I have not been able to replicate this problem.What is the layout of the first Drive?Run the attached program from DOS 7.1 and post the result. Edited January 27, 201214 yr by rloew
January 28, 201214 yr I have not been able to replicate this problem.What is the layout of the first Drive?Run the attached program from DOS 7.1 and post the result.OK, here's the output from 'ltools -part' :******************************************************************************LTOOLS version V6.12 (C) 1996-2006 Werner.Zimmermann|AT|fht-esslingen.deCompiled with Borland C 5.0 on Apr 27 2006 as 16bit binaryRunning ldir under Windows V7.10 ******************************************************************************# LTOOLS infos ---------------------------------------------------------------##### Disk 128 = /dev/hda : CHS= 788: 255: 63----- Bios Int 13h extensions used --- LBA mode# 1 Type:FAT16 >32M 1906MB from CHS= 0: 1: 1 to CHS=242:254:63 bootable secs=3903732 start=63# 2 Type:DOS ExPar 4267MB from CHS=243: 0: 1 to CHS=786:254:63 secs=8739360 start=3903795# 5 Type:FAT16 >32M 2047MB from CHS=243: 1: 1 to CHS=503:254:63 secs=4192902 start=3903858# 6 Type:FAT16 >32M 2047MB from CHS=504: 1: 1 to CHS=764:254:63 secs=4192902 start=8096823# 7 Type:Linux Swap 172MB from CHS=765: 1: 1 to CHS=786:254:63 secs=353367 start=12289788# LTOOLS infos ---------------------------------------------------------------##### Disk 129 = /dev/hdb : CHS=4111: 255: 63----- Bios Int 13h extensions used --- LBA mode# 1 Type:FAT16 >32M 1380MB from CHS= 0: 1: 1 to CHS=175:254:63 secs=2827377 start=63# 2 Type:e7 1804MB from CHS=176: 0: 1 to CHS=405:254:63 secs=3694950 start=2827440# 3 Type:Win ExPar 25007MB from CHS=406: 0: 1 to CHS=521:254:63 secs=51215220 start=6522390# 4 Type:Linux EXT2 4000MB from CHS=522: 0: 1 to CHS= 7:254:63 secs=8193150 start=57737610# 5 Type:Win9x FAT32 25007MB from CHS=406: 1: 1 to CHS=521:254:63 secs=51215157 start=6522453# LTOOLS infos ---------------------------------------------------------------##### Disk 130 = /dev/hdc : CHS= 784: 255: 63----- Bios Int 13h extensions used --- LBA mode# 1 Type:Win9x FAT32 5130MB from CHS= 0: 1: 1 to CHS=653:254:63 secs=10506447 start=63# 2 Type:DOS ExPar 1019MB from CHS=654: 0: 1 to CHS=783:254:63 secs=2088450 start=10506510# 5 Type:FAT16 >32M 1019MB from CHS=654: 1: 1 to CHS=783:254:63 secs=2088387 start=10506573Partition numbers 1-4 are primary, 5+ are logical volumes in an extended partition.Here's the drive configuration reported by 'fdisk' : Fixed Disk Drive Status Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage 1 6181 8 100% C: 1906 F: 2047 G: 2047 173 2 32248 55 100% D: 1381 H: 25007 3 6150 100% E: 5130 I: 1020Finally, here's the output from 'partsx' :D010:0000 A DR=00 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:0096 B DR=01 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:012C C DR=80 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:01C2 D DR=81 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:0258 E DR=82 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:02EE F DR=80 OFF=003B9172 FLG=00000001D010:0384 G DR=80 OFF=007B8C37 FLG=00000001D010:041A H DR=81 OFF=00638655 FLG=00000001D010:04B0 I DR=82 OFF=00A0514D FLG=00000001Joe.
January 28, 201214 yr Hello, with a tool to edit the winboot.98s Spanish included as part of IO.SYS in "http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311561" ( http://download.microsoft.com/download/win98/ patch/22527/w98/es/311561spa8.exe) erroneously translated into English by MicrosoftSample Capture Edited January 28, 201214 yr by gerislamico
January 28, 201214 yr Finally, here's the output from 'partsx' :D010:0000 A DR=00 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:0096 B DR=01 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:012C C DR=80 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:01C2 D DR=81 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:0258 E DR=82 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:02EE F DR=80 OFF=003B9172 FLG=00000001D010:0384 G DR=80 OFF=007B8C37 FLG=00000001D010:041A H DR=81 OFF=00638655 FLG=00000001D010:04B0 I DR=82 OFF=00A0514D FLG=00000001Joe.Everything looks normal. H: should have worked properly.Were you running my Patched IO.SYS when you ran PARTSX or the working version?Either way, switch to the other one and rerun PARTSX.
January 28, 201214 yr Finally, here's the output from 'partsx' :D010:0000 A DR=00 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:0096 B DR=01 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:012C C DR=80 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:01C2 D DR=81 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:0258 E DR=82 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:02EE F DR=80 OFF=003B9172 FLG=00000001D010:0384 G DR=80 OFF=007B8C37 FLG=00000001D010:041A H DR=81 OFF=00638655 FLG=00000001D010:04B0 I DR=82 OFF=00A0514D FLG=00000001Joe.Everything looks normal. H: should have worked properly.Were you running my Patched IO.SYS when you ran PARTSX or the working version?Either way, switch to the other one and rerun PARTSX.The above was with the combined (working) patches.With the non-working patch, I get the following :D010:0000 A DR=00 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:0096 B DR=01 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:012C C DR=80 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:01C2 D DR=81 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:0258 E DR=82 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:02EE F DR=80 OFF=0000003F FLG=00F30001D010:0384 G DR=80 OFF=0000003F FLG=01F80001D010:041A H DR=81 OFF=00638655 FLG=02FD0001D010:04B0 I DR=82 OFF=0000003F FLG=028E0001Joe.
January 28, 201214 yr Finally, here's the output from 'partsx' :D010:0000 A DR=00 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:0096 B DR=01 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:012C C DR=80 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:01C2 D DR=81 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:0258 E DR=82 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:02EE F DR=80 OFF=003B9172 FLG=00000001D010:0384 G DR=80 OFF=007B8C37 FLG=00000001D010:041A H DR=81 OFF=00638655 FLG=00000001D010:04B0 I DR=82 OFF=00A0514D FLG=00000001With the non-working patch, I get the following :D010:0000 A DR=00 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:0096 B DR=01 OFF=00000000 FLG=FFFFFFFFD010:012C C DR=80 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:01C2 D DR=81 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:0258 E DR=82 OFF=0000003F FLG=00000001D010:02EE F DR=80 OFF=0000003F FLG=00F30001D010:0384 G DR=80 OFF=0000003F FLG=01F80001D010:041A H DR=81 OFF=00638655 FLG=02FD0001D010:04B0 I DR=82 OFF=0000003F FLG=028E0001I believe the following combination of Partitions caused the problem1. On Drive #1 you have a Type 5 Extended Partition.2. The last Logical Partition in this Extended Partition is Non-DOS.3. On Drive #2 you have a Type 0xF Extended Partition.4. The Logical Partition in this Extended Partition is DOS.It is a rather improbable combination but I have revised my Patch so it should cover it.Try the attached Patch on an Unpatched copy of IO.SYS and boot with the Patched IO.SYSTest all of your Partitions and run PARTSX again.EDIT: This Patch has been revised and has been tested.IMPORTANT: Four copies were downloaded before 7:15 PM EST. Do not use these copies are they do not cover all cases.REEDIT: The Patch did not correctly handle Windows ME and has been removed. A new Patch will be posted shortly. Patches to IOSYS 7 are fine. Edited January 29, 201214 yr by rloew
January 29, 201214 yr I see no one listens. Four people downloaded the experimental PATCHPAR I posted earlier. I said not to download it before it was verified. I have already redone it.@jds: If you already downloaded it, redownload the newer copy in my previous post and use it instead.
January 29, 201214 yr I see no one listens. Four people downloaded the experimental PATCHPAR I posted earlier. I said not to download it before it was verified. I have already redone it.@jds: If you already downloaded it, redownload the newer copy in my previous post and use it instead.Well, Mr Loew,I've just downloaded and this one works properly for me.Joe.
January 29, 201214 yr I see no one listens. Four people downloaded the experimental PATCHPAR I posted earlier. I said not to download it before it was verified. I have already redone it.@jds: If you already downloaded it, redownload the newer copy in my previous post and use it instead.Well, Mr Loew,I've just downloaded and this one works properly for me.Joe.Perfect New version will be added to Service Pack 3==================================================Filename : WINBOOT.SYSMD5 : 94d9415346382faef754ca943e6759ddSHA1 : ba48cf1b40fc820fce708afee87f732cbfc6a04eCRC32 : 82380988SHA-256 : c86124aace28c02fcde58e967f91c3930097247a107b22dba6b542fb817f623cSHA-512 : eb3b3cff053c24bdda018832d5e2da2f8e292132f20e0c3a771f33cbb57923898697814a35ce9799c5cb80ed133ed1cb37ee4ca56c34a26531f836150024958bFull Path : C:\WINBOOT.SYSModified Time : 1/28/2012 7:55:13 PMCreated Time : 1/28/2012 7:57:05 PMFile Size : 222,670File Version : Product Version : Identical : Extension : SYSFile Attributes : A================================================== Edited January 29, 201214 yr by PROBLEMCHYLD
January 29, 201214 yr I see no one listens. Four people downloaded the experimental PATCHPAR I posted earlier. I said not to download it before it was verified. I have already redone it.@jds: If you already downloaded it, redownload the newer copy in my previous post and use it instead.Well, Mr Loew,I've just downloaded and this one works properly for me.Joe.Perfect New version will be added to Service Pack 3==================================================Filename : WINBOOT.SYSMD5 : 94d9415346382faef754ca943e6759ddSHA1 : ba48cf1b40fc820fce708afee87f732cbfc6a04eCRC32 : 82380988SHA-256 : c86124aace28c02fcde58e967f91c3930097247a107b22dba6b542fb817f623cSHA-512 : eb3b3cff053c24bdda018832d5e2da2f8e292132f20e0c3a771f33cbb57923898697814a35ce9799c5cb80ed133ed1cb37ee4ca56c34a26531f836150024958bFull Path : C:\WINBOOT.SYSModified Time : 1/28/2012 7:55:13 PMCreated Time : 1/28/2012 7:57:05 PMFile Size : 222,670File Version : Product Version : Identical : Extension : SYSFile Attributes : A==================================================Jumping the gun a bit, but it should be OK as long as you weren't one of the four who downloaded it before 7:15 PM ESTI am removing the previous versions from the Forum as they do not cover all possible configurations of Partitions.
January 29, 201214 yr Jumping the gun a bit, but it should be OK as long as you weren't one of the four who downloaded it before 7:15 PM ESTI was NOT one of the four. LOL
January 29, 201214 yr Author I see no one listens. Four people downloaded the experimental PATCHPAR I posted earlier. I said not to download it before it was verified. I have already redone it.@jds: If you already downloaded it, redownload the newer copy in my previous post and use it instead.JFYI :http://reboot.pro/2362/page__st__31 jaclaz
January 29, 201214 yr I see no one listens. Four people downloaded the experimental PATCHPAR I posted earlier. I said not to download it before it was verified. I have already redone it.@jds: If you already downloaded it, redownload the newer copy in my previous post and use it instead.Well, Mr Loew,I've just downloaded and this one works properly for me.Joe.Hi, Joe! I'm glad the latest installment of RLoew's patch worked OK for you.But, just for completeness, would you please post the output of partsx while using it?Thanks in advance!
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