The config directory empties itself every time I disconnect and reconnect the unit.

Both isosel.bin and iso_filename.txt disappear.

It has the latest firmware, and the microSD card is properly formatted 64GB exFAT. This problem exists regardless of what microSD card is in the device.

Even recreating those files doesn't load ANY iso file in the virtual optical drive the isostick creates.

What can be done to fix this?

Edit: This is a new unit that's only a few weeks old.

What the authors of the industrial organization of the twentieth century
can say about Linux:

1.What is Linux?
2.Why do some people insist on using Linux?
3.We do not honor our hardware warranty when you run Linux!
4.It's your fault for using Linux.
5.No matter what the problem is, it's your Fault.
6.hahahaha!!!

What is Linux?

Linux is a clone variety of Unix written by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management and TCP/IP networking. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, developed originally for home PCs, but which now runs on practically every hardware platform available including PowerPC, Macintosh, DEC Alpha, Sun Sparc, ARM, Mainframes, and many others. Linux aims for POSIX compliancy to maintain maximum compatibility with other UNIX-like systems. With millions of users worldwide, Linux is probably the most popular UNIX-like OS in the world.



Why do some people insist on using Linux?

Linux is free from adware, trialware, shovelware, and bloatware. Running Linux is like watching the public TV network.A basic installation of Linux as an office desktop is often easier than installing Windows (depending on distribution selected).One thing that Linux can do that Windows can not, is run from a CD. To run Windows, it has to first be installed to your hard disk. Normally Linux also runs from a hard disk, but there are quite a few versions of Linux that run completely from a CD without having to be installed to a hard disk.While 40 Linux viruses exist and virus scanners such as Guarddog and Clam-AV do exist and are free of course.. The major source of threat to Linux systems at present seems to be exploits on browsers such as Firefox and Opera...48,000 new virus signatures were documented for Windows, compared to 40 for Linux. Whether or not you chose Linux for your computers, even if you're a rabid Bill Gates fan- you'll be using it in other ways - Internet servers, cell phones, handheld devices, watches and embedded devices of all kinds....

Open Source

Free software and open source are not synonymous. Free software is more of a political stance than an economic one: "free" refers not to price but to philosophy. Free software can be used and modified without restriction. In the proprietary, single vendor or non-free software world we know this concept as piracy, except where very liberal licenses apply.
Freedom to modify is a pillar of this philosophy. The responsibility accompanying that freedom comes in the form of the GNU Public License (GPL). The GPL states that distributing a product that uses free software within its core or periphery (derivatives of the GPL differ) requires the distributor or vendor to also distribute or make available the product source code so that others may enjoy the same freedom to use and modify.


"Name GNU is a hack. Because it's a recursive acronym. It stands for "GNU's Not Unix".




SINIX used ideas from XENIX

MINIX used ideas from SINIX

LINUX used ideas from MINIX

There was a line of connection between Unix, Xenix, Sinix, Minix and, finally, Linux.

From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)Newsgroups: comp.os.minixSubject: What would you like to see most in minix?Summary: small poll for my new operating systemMessage-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMTOrganization: University of HelsinkiHello everybody out there using minix -I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big andprofessional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewingsince april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback onthings people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)among other things).I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, andI'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestionsare welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code], and it has a multi-threaded fs.It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably neverwill support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

Chenall's NTBOOT is a grub4dos script which modifies a BCD loaded onto a virtual floppy disk.

Using NTBOOT, we can boot from a variety of Windows PE and WindowsToGo VHDs (Win7/8/8.1/10)

It chainloads to bootmgr first and then bootmgr uses the BCD which it has modified so that the path of the VHD file is correct.

However, when I tried directly booting a Windows 8 and Windows 10 VHD from an Easy2Boot USB drive which I recently made with my Windows 10 host system, I found that I got a BSOD 0xc00000bb  BCD error from both VHDs, even though the same VHDs worked fine on a different Easy2Boot USB drive that was made using WIn8.1.

I traced the problem to the version of bootmgr that I was using. Easy2Boot copies bootmgr from your host system at C:\windows\Boot\PCAT to the Easy2Boot \_ISO\e2b\grub\DPMS\NTBOOT.MOD folder when you run the Make_e2B-USB_Drive.cmd script. The version on my Windows 10 system seems to give this BCD error with NTBOOT. I have found a few different versions of bootmgr and only the Windows 10 C:\windows\Boot\PCAT version seems to give the problem.

1. bootmgr 10-07-2015 395268 CRC32=45B6D6D7   - WINDOWS 10 version

2. bootmgr 22-08-2013 427680 CRC32=87783488

3. bootmgr 25-07-2012 398156 CRC32=4B1A74EF

4. bootmgr 14-06-2014 404250 CRC32=CB810D1B

Only #1 gives the bad BCD problem with NTBOOT.

So it seems that there is something different about the Windows 10 version of bootmgr?

WinToGo 8.1 working on a ‘Removable’ Easy2Boot USB Drive -- VHD within a imgPTN file.
Stick has a FAT32 PTN1 (for my boot loaders) and a large NTFS PTN2 (for e2b, ISOs & imgPTN files).

Has anyone been able to get a WinToGo 8.1 stick so that it will boot on BOTH MBR ‘&’ UEFI hardware?

My current Win81TG.imgPTN file was built on NTFS (>4GB), but if I understand correctly,

it would need to have been built on FAT32 to boot on UEFI hardware.  Is this correct?
Would love to keep using this Win81TG.imgPTN file if possible.
Thanks

Hello,
 
I’d like to know how can I chainload WinPE using GRUB2 in UEFI mode.
Let me explain better…
 
We have a PXE environment for BIOS Legacy and UEFI computers. The same server (WDS Windows 2012) is used for both Legacy and UEFI.
 
To boot different OS’s (WinPE, Linux, DOS) in Legacy Mode we’re using PXELinux. There is also a PXELinux Menu to the user choose which OS he wants. To boot WinPE in Legacy mode we use:

MENU LABEL WinPE
  KERNEL Boot/pxeboot.0
  APPEND –
 

Our Legacy PXE environment is working just fine.
 
For UEFI computers, we only use WinPE, so once the computer boots the WDS’s server sends WinPE (x64) without showing a menu to the user. However, now we want to start using Clonezilla in UEFI, therefore after the computer boots we need to show a menu to the user to choose (WinPE or Clonezilla).
I could make the menu work in UEFI with GRUB2. So after the UEFI PXE boot, it’s shown a menu and the user can boot Clonezilla. This is working OK.
 
To chainload WinPE in GRUB2 I’m using:

menuentry "WinPE" {
   insmod chain
   chainloader /Boot/x64/bootmgfw.efi
} 

 
WinPE starts to boot but fail with error code 0xc0000428 (The digital signature for this file couldn’t be verified).
 
Does anymore know how to chainload WinPE correctly in UEFI?
 
Thanks,
Leandro Paulin

Using this post from Erwan's blog, I managed to get WinPE to start booting in UEFI... Now I'm getting a very descriptive 0xc0000225 stop: "An unexpected error has occurred." Yay.

I get this error immediately after it hits the BCD file (observed through tcpdump), and never even tries to grab my boot.wim

Thoughts?

PS (tried some other things before posting) When using Erwan's method, I get the old ugly stop screen (white on black). If I copy the contents of my Win PE ISO and just move (or redirect my DHCP server to) the bootx64.efi file, it's all pretty like Windows 8 stop screens. Same text and options, just looks nice now, lol.

I recently upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10. At the same time I have moved to the latest version of ImDisk (2.0.6) and started using the ImDisk tools provided on this forum (also latest version, containing ImDisk 2.0.6). In the past I used a RAM disk image, but currently I let it create a TEMP folder on the fly. Still I notice that the ramdisk is persistent! If I store files on it and shut down my PC they are back after a reboot...

What do I do wrong here?

(And: is there a way to create a second empty folder on the fly?)

Thanks to P. Batard (Author of Rufus):

http://reboot.pro/topic/20358-rufus-20-has-been-released/

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues/545

It came out that the new Windows 10 doesn't ship anymore with a diskcopy.dll containing the ME floppy boot disk (please read as MS-DOS 8.00).

Of course the floppy image can be extracted from *any* OS (XP to 8.1) and although there is still the possibility of using FreeDos or one of the other "alternative" DOSes freely available, it would be nice to provide an easy way to get the file (that is not redistributable) though obviously the internet is full of "DOS boot floppies" (which may however be of dubious origins).

Any idea of the whereabouts of a "legal" downloadable file(s) (i.e. hosted on MS servers) would be appreciated.

Wonko

Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse 3000  model 1359 mouse red light Stopped Working (Fixed)


DK
Dru K replied on
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-hardware/microsoft-wireless-notebook-optical-mouse-3000/4b3b9d40-2b74-43b6-bf83-c61c6c73bfd9

READ THIS FIRST!!!!!  

Everything in this help forum is junk.  I had the same exact problem as you, there is a button underneath where you clip the USB stick to the mouse, it sticks. and tells the mouse that the USB stick is still clipped to the mouse. All you have to do is jiggle the button a bit and the light will come on. I know you posted this almost 2 years ago, but I am hoping that this can help future people.

Here is the link to the page that helped me figure that out :

http://mattrefghi.com/blog/solutions/hardware/microsoft-wireless-notebook-optical-mouse-3000-stopped-working/

 

http://mattrefghi.com/blog/solutions/hardware/microsoft-wireless-notebook-optical-mouse-3000-stopped-working/

 

I then discovered a forum post that revealed that my problem was actually hardware based:

I discovered that a small black springloaded piece comes out of the side of the area where the usb connector rests to turn it off. The small black piece is pushed back when the USB connector (notebook receiver) is pushed into the mouse. The small black piece was sticking and not coming all of the way out. I took a cotton swab and alcohol and cleaned around it and took a small screw driver and pushed it in and out until it freely moved all of the way out which turns the light on and eureka, it worked!!!! tweet

All I had to do was press the button a few times, and it became unstuck. This caused the light to turn back on, and the mouse started working again.

In my case it seemed poped up, but i still pushed it down a couple of times and the light came up. Working!

Hi guys. I need some help from PE experts.

Is there a way to run disk2vhd from an x86 winpe image?

I want to backup all fixed drives of a computer when winpe is loaded. I tried this command:

disk2vhd * Z:\Backup\%computername%.vhd

However it outputs an error about visual c++ libraries, which winpe obviously does not have. Is there a way to run it? Or maybe an alternative that will run on PE?

Thank you.

We ran into this while chasing an interface binding error (for some reason tftpd32 is starting the tftp server thread when the interface is unavailable on our Windows 7 boxes).  When we started the tftpd32 service with the network jack disconnected, the service would use up a full core's CPU at real time priority, making the keyboard very slow to respond among other problems.  On a single core cpu, this could really be bad.  It turns out that the "scheduler" thread would continuously loop if a thread it was monitoring ended unexpectedly.
 
I ended up putting several patches into the scheduler thread while I was tracking this down, adding some error handling on the thread monitoring, reducing the thread priority from real time, and possibly fixing a gui update bug.
 
in start_threads.c:

void Scheduler (void *param)
{
unsigned int Ark;
unsigned int Rc;
int waitIndex;
HANDLE tHdle[TH_NUMBER];
unsigned int nCount;
int  nTime=1000;

	// Increase thread priority in order to return asap in the Wait function
     SetThreadPriority(GetCurrentThread(), THREAD_PRIORITY_ABOVE_NORMAL);

    tThreads [TH_SCHEDULER].bInit = TRUE;  // inits OK

    do
	{
		tHdle[0] = tThreads [TH_SCHEDULER].hEv;
        for ( Ark=0, nCount=1 ;  Ark<TH_NUMBER ; Ark++ )
             if (tThreads [Ark].gRunning)     tHdle[nCount++] = tThreads [Ark].tTh;
		// wake up every 30 seconds
		waitIndex = -1;
        Rc = WaitForMultipleObjects (nCount, tHdle, FALSE, 30000);
		if (Rc == WAIT_TIMEOUT)  
			PoolNetworkInterfaces ();	// so not trigger messages to GUI
		else if (Rc == WAIT_FAILED)  
			LogToMonitor ("Scheduler wait returns %d (error %d - %s)\n", Rc, GetLastError (), LastErrorText());
		else if ( Rc - WAIT_OBJECT_0 < nCount && Rc - WAIT_OBJECT_0 >= 0 )
			waitIndex = Rc - WAIT_OBJECT_0;
		else
			LogToMonitor ("Scheduler wait returns invalid index %d\n", Rc);


		// a process has terminated 
		if ( waitIndex >= 0  )
		{
		struct S_Chg_Service chgmsg;

			 // thread itself is signalled, since the number of service has changed
			 if (waitIndex == 0)
			 { 
				LogToMonitor ("Scheduler signal received"); 
				ResetEvent (tThreads[TH_SCHEDULER].hEv); // was tThreads[Ark].hEv; this should work better
				PoolNetworkInterfaces ();	// GUI has waked up this thread, send it fresh info
				continue; 
			 }

			for ( Ark=0 ;  Ark<SizeOfTab(tThreads)  &&  tHdle[waitIndex]!=tThreads [Ark].tTh ;  Ark++ ); 
			if (Ark>=SizeOfTab(tThreads)) continue;

			LogToMonitor ("process %s has terminated\n", tThreadsConfig[Ark].name);


			// free resources allocated by StartSingleWorkerThread
			FreeThreadResources (Ark);
     		if (tThreadsConfig [Ark].gui)
 			{
				// change display : ie add its tab in the GUI
				chgmsg.service = tThreadsConfig [Ark].serv_mask;
				chgmsg.status = SERVICE_STOPPED;
   				SendMsgRequest (C_CHG_SERVICE,& chgmsg, sizeof chgmsg, FALSE, FALSE );	
			}

			// wait since uServices may be changed by Console thread !!
			if (    tThreadsConfig [Ark].restart 
				&&  sSettings.uServices & tThreadsConfig [Ark].serv_mask 
				&&  tThreads [Ark].gRunning )
				StartSingleWorkerThread (Ark);
			else
				tThreads[Ark].gRunning = FALSE;

		} // WAitMultipleObject
		else
			Sleep(1000);
    }
    while ( tThreads[TH_SCHEDULER].gRunning );

	LogToMonitor ("end of ip pooling thread\n");
_endthread ();        
} // ListIPInterfaces

Hi guys! New to this.

Before I forget, I think I speak for a lot of people that it would be nice if there is a proper documentation for installing FreeDOS on the second partition of a hard drive.  I've mananged to do it but I'm not really sure it was done correctly.

I sort of took some tips here:
http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/freedos_no_removable.html
but I also had to use the beta version of EasyBCD (which is EasyBCD 2.3) as it has FreeDOS among its list of Windows operating systems.

Now to my FreeDOS problems. 

1.  When I boot into FreeDOS, it almost always asks me to enter the date and time.  Is this normal?

2.  I can run an old Clipper program but the program has to be in the same drive/partition as FreeDOS; I cannot access other drive/partition when I'm in FreeDOS.  Is this normal?

Kaye

i was running a scan for spyware with spyhunter4 and it didn't find anything unusual but it didn't recognize a program... i think it was SQL something not really sure. anyways it suggests that i disable the program and then reboot my laptop and so i do and now its giving me this black screen with 3 options to boot from, Spyhunter, Windows xp, and Windows vista/7 (non of which work) i click enter on any of them and it gives me an error 17 message. i dont know what to do . i'm using an HP 2730p 1.8 Ghz  intel centrino 2 running windows 7. 

I wanted to try out the new Windows 10 but was still afraid of upgrading because they would blatantly spy my computer.

Now, Microsoft solved that worry. Windows 7 will now automatically install equivalent spying updates, so both versions are similar and I can now upgrade without really being afraid of losing privacy, because it is already lost anyways.

Thank you Microsoft.

This being the case, many Windows users who are not happy with Windows 10 spying ways and have preferred to stay on with Windows 7/Windows 8 and Window 8.1 as the case might be. For these Windows 7/8/8.1 users there are a few updates which Microsoft has been pushing through last few days.

 

http://www.techworm.net/2015/08/new-windows-788-1-updates-spy-on-you-just-like-windows-10.html

//===========================

[variables]

%ProgramTitle%=My Application v1.0

%ProgramEXE%=MyApp.exe

%ProgramFolder%=My Application

%cmd%= #$pSystemRoot#$p\System32\cmd.exe

%path%=%Target_Prog%\%ProgramFolder%\%ProgramEXE%

%param%=/c#$s#$q%path%#$q



[process]

Add_Shortcut,Desktop,,%cmd%,,,%param%,%path%

//===========================

i tried to send it to my father : the exe that does the download ...

but google blocked it all time..i even used 7z and winrar to create an archive and the passworded the archive with both...but all time it was blocked...

that seems strange that gmail blocks passworded files , is not it ?

i can not upload the rar sfx file with password in here..

with yahoo mail : i send it without probs...

Hello comrades!

i have a little cuestion that cant found in other posts

its related to this error (error 6) creating a partition to have easy2boot in a portable hard drive.

crashed when start to format in NTFS, say something about disk management console view is not up to date.

# RMPrepUSB 2.1.728 

# windows 7 64 bits administrator privileges

# list all hard disks, list large disks

no drive letter x

Regards!

Grub4dos batch file allows booting Linux from beyond 15th partition

Greetings, all.  I am a Windows XP refugee who has been trying out numerous Linux distributions over the last couple years or so in search of a potential Windows replacement.  I really don't see enough compelling new features from Microsoft to convince me to upgrade to newer Windows versions with their accompanying DRM bloat and, now, baked-in spyware.

To get the best feel for performance, I prefer to install an OS on actual hardware rather than in a VM.  With hard drive partitions being occasionally created, deleted, and shuffled around, the most robust method of installing Linux that I have found is to take a live Linux CD image that boots with isolinux, use isohybrid --partok (part of syslinux) to add a partition-bootable boot sector to it, then dd the image to an equivalent-sized HD partition.  An additional partition can be used for persistence, and of course every linux distro can use the same swap partition.  I've been calling this my "IsoFrugal" installation method, although that may not be the proper term for it.

Grub4dos has been my favorite boot manager for some time now, and has no problem recognizing these "ISO-9660-formatted" partitions (although grub4dos calls them "iso9600", which I'm guessing is a typo).  The live Linux CDs' isolinux boot configs are easily translatable into grub4dos menu entries, or you can simply chainload into the image partitions for "fresh as new" bootups, then use cat /proc/cmdline to see how you got there.

Unfortunately, as my hard drive began to fill with new partitions, I soon reached a point where newer live Linux HD installs would fail to boot.  Some research revealed that many Linux distros cannot boot from beyond the 15th partition on a hard drive because current Linux disk drivers are based upon the old SCSI standard, which does possess a 15 partition limit even though SATA does not.

Some poking around in gparted showed that a partition's "bootability" depends on its order in the extended partition table chain, not its physical location on the hard drive, so I thought it should be possible to make any partition bootable (i.e. at or below partition 15) by reordering the links in the extended partition chain without actually messing with the partitions themselves.  So... I've spent the last couple months learning the nuances of grub4dos batch file programming and came up with one possible solution.

I only wrote this batch file because I needed to solve a problem for myself, but I thought that maybe other people might find it useful as well.  You decide.  The Help portion of the file is posted here so that you can get an idea of how this thing works.  If there's any interest, I'll post the whole enchilada.  If nothing else, it might be useful as a grub4dos batch file tutorial.

!BAT
goto :start

:about
echo pareo.g4b - PARtition REOrder grub4dos batch file
echo -e \            Allows booting Linux from beyond the 15th partition on a drive.
echo 2015-09-03 v1.0  Original release by Mythenadia.
echo
exit

:help
echo The Problem:  Some Linux kernels cannot boot|automount|see beyond a drive's
echo 15th partition even though modern SATA/USB drives possess no such legacy SCSI
echo drive limitation.
echo
echo The Workaround:  Perform an on-the-fly reordering of logical partitions in a
echo grub4dos boot menu to ensure that all partitions needed for booting a linux
echo installation fall within this partition 15 boundary.
echo
echo Pareo works by rearranging the links between Extended Boot Records (EBRs) to
echo change the apparent order of logical partitions.  Pareo does not touch the
echo partitions themselves or the EBR links to them.
echo
echo Syntax - as used from a grub4dos boot menu or command line:
echo
echo -e \   pareo.g4b (Drive,Source) Destination [-u|-d] [-v|-t]
echo
echo -e \   pareo.g4b -a|-h
echo
echo Options:
echo
echo -u = Up-only.  Move Source partition only if it is < Destination partition.
echo -e -d = Down-only.  Move Source partition only if it is \> Destination partition.
echo -e \     Default is move Source partition regardless of direction.
echo
echo -v = Verbose mode.  Displays lots of extra info.  Useful for debugging.
echo -t = Test mode.  Like verbose, but writes nothing to Drive.
echo -e \     Default is Quiet mode.  Displays only success or error message.
echo
echo -a = Display About info.
echo -e \-h = Display both About info and Help.
echo
echo Remember:  Grub4dos uses the old grub legacy partition numbering scheme,
echo -e \           so sda10 in Linux will be (hd0,9) in grub4dos.
echo
echo Example 1 - Move sda23 to sda15:
echo
echo -e \   pareo.g4b (hd0,22) 14
echo
echo Example 2 - If the current root partition is above Linux partition 8,
echo -e \            move it there verbosely:
echo
echo -e \   pareo.g4b %^@root% 7 -d -v
echo
echo Example 3 - See what changes would be made to your drive if you were to move
echo -e \            (hd1,34) to (hd1,13) without actually doing so:
echo
echo -e \   pareo.g4b (hd1,34) 13 -t
echo
echo When moving a partition down (Destination partition < Source partition), all
echo partitions from Destination thru Source-1 will be moved up by one.  Likewise,
echo -e when moving a partition up (Destination partition \> Source partition), all
echo partitions from Source+1 thru Destination will be moved down by one.
echo
echo Limitations:
echo
echo Both Source and Destination must be >= 5.
echo Moving grub4dos partition 4 - the first logical partition - is tricky because
echo its EBR location is fixed at the physical beginning of the extended partition.
echo I deemed it not worth the extra coding effort to include this special case.
echo
echo Based on rbase=0x300, I'm guessing that pareo can reorder partitions out to
echo somewhere in the 224-512 range.  This, of course, could be increased by
echo setting rbase to, say, 0x19000 along with using separate rbase values for EBR
echo sector content and EBR sector address storage buffers.
echo
exit

:start
if $%1==$-a call :about && exit
if $%1==$-h goto :help
exit