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EWF on Windows 2003

August 5, 2015, 7:05 am
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-p not work in 2.03

August 5, 2015, 8:24 am
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When i use RamDyn64 with imDisk last version the last parameter, "AddParam" not work.

 

When i use:

imdisk -a -s 100M -m Z: -p "/fs:ntfs /q /y"
 

obtain:

Creating device...
Created device 5: Z: -> Image in memory
Format failed. Temporary drive letter points to another device.

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Request : Download Link to Bare-Metal Versions of Hyper-V Server

August 5, 2015, 8:56 am
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As i am not able to find them anywhere anymore , but it is right now far easier to request them here then seeking through a bunch disks ...

 

: Does anyone know of a valid link to the isos of MicroSoft Hyper-V Bare-Metal Versions ?

 

: I am not talking about the Server Core Versions i mean the freely distributed no-cost Hyper-V Bare-Metal isos.

 

 

THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST .

 

S466531257 BOSS

PAETH CLAUDIUSRAPHAEL

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Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) on x64

August 5, 2015, 10:59 am
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ImDskSvc and AWEAlloc start disabled

August 5, 2015, 11:17 am
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I set ImDskSvc and AWEAlloc start to disabled.

But when i renstall Imdisk it reset to automatic.

Do it is possible to avoid it?

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REQUEST : Thoughts on Partitioning ( Hybrid-MBR / GPT ) - Stacked Partition Grid

August 5, 2015, 12:12 pm
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To roll it up from bottom to top ( copied from here )
 
Yes, i am familiar with hybrid mbrs efi uefi duet tianocore also and especially rodsbooks practical notes on that .
 
For testing purposes a just big enough 80GB SSD ( Intel X-18M G1 80 GB SSD - original one from the 2730p ) ;
If it survives the task - next stage is on the 2740p which runs a samsung evo 840 1TB ; next stage on the 2760p with samsung evo 850 1TB ; If it is possible to create the setup stable i am willed to spend a ( so-to-say refurbished then ) 3TB Fixstars ( possible in Q2 next year ) ;
 
Testing work also for testing on 1.5TB and 3TB Drives ( mechanical WD i think 32M Cache ) in forefront for HDD's 4TB and 8 TB external SATA-600 USB-3 and as sas raid 4 x 8TB but not as hardware raid, that would be total nonsense and even myself accpets that as a no-go. 
 
Oh sorry, the NoteBooks are Convertibles with digitizer HP CompaQ EliteBook 2730p | 2740P | 2760P - as an alternative a ruggedized Panasonic ToughBook CF-30 and a CF-31 later when worn-out will be the basement for the next years for the 2.5 inch drives ( the problem with the elitebooks is they need 1.8'' (7mm) drives ; its a bit cozy in there . CPU Classes vary from Core-Duo to i5 . RAM is varying from 2 to 8 GB .
 
 
The EliteBooks have HP-Customized (U)EFI from version 1.7 ( 2730p alternatively modded variant available with 2.0 but needs time and concentration due to TPM-Binding ) others are 2.0 2.1 2.10 2.11 ; EliteBooks are CSM-enabled and support Intel TXT | CIRA | SecureBoot model-dependent ; the ToughBooks are a bit more complicated ( GPS-Lock and some other fancy remote-stuff ) and the CF-30 runs EFI (1.3/1.7 ? AMI-EFI-CSM-Bios ) --- in short --- 5 mixed CSM/EFI/UEFI - Setups
 
--- and the wish to run and prepare the same drives also on bios-based systems ( Dell Poweredge 2900 (broken right now ) and 2950 ESXI5 | Windows Server 2008 | Windows Hyper-V 2012 | Ubuntu Server Lucid | Precise | Trusty | Fedora 21 WorkStation | Server and CentOS 6 and Debian Jessie untouched for month ) --- so in short --- i need interchangeability , mostly because i try to avoid to sit anymore than necessary right besides these monsters - i would estimate around 100 to 115dB noise of Wind on a beaufort scale around 6 -- NEVER SMOKE ASIDE ! )
 
The ToughBook runs fine/excellent with a hybrid-mbr in any variant. It runs Leopard / Fedora 21 WorkStation and Ubuntu Precise Desktop Which is the main reason for using a hybrid mbr as long as i haven't found more simple ways to run a hackintosh ( especially interested in Snow Leopard / Mavericks on the EliteBooks if Posssible ).
 
The eliteBooks by the way are the most hairy ones in terms of bitching around when something changes ( It is more complicated to avoid that the books save em'self beware of potential problems which there might could happen then to break them at will / at least when using the hardware-assisted tpm/credential/fingerprint-combo in combination with amt-assist and remote-storage ) --- however in short --- hybrid mbr because of hackintosh .
 
The optimum in terms of disk layout i can think of
 
1. ESP ( EFI system Partition )
: of 8GiB up to 32GiB
: ( Offset and Sector-Alignment 63 ( 32KB / 512 Byte/Sector ))
--- which is already problematic with external HDD 1.5TB USB-3 cases because i haven't found a firmware that allows me to handle that directly and the 3 TB are Adavanced Format ; So a better solution would be circumventing the start at Sector 63 for hybrid MBR problemless booting in bios mode ; any ideas/informations welcome
 
The ESP also
--- as the first hybrid mbr partition
--- active
--- containing any boot loaders
--- easy2Boot (G4D)
--- besides
: Clover / Chameleon / grub4dos earlier versions / refit / refind / grub2 / burg / ntldr / bootmgr ( except grub2 stage 1.5 - that one is appended as separate gpt partition and mirrored as bios-boot partition )
 
2. So to say in the inbetween of the first active primary hybrid mbr which is identical to the ESP
--- an hybrid mbr extended partition
--- with fixed positions
--- and reserved space between the EP and the first logical
--- to secure that ( due to the fact an MBR-EP handles PBR listwise ) the corruption is as minimal as possible just in case ;
 
--- followed by a copy of the EP ( 0x88 ) which is unknown to the hybrid mbr and set with enough offset to the ExtendedPartition-Definition
--- followed by all logical partitions pre-reserved in stackings of
: 8 GB + reserved-space-up-to 8 GiB
: 16 GB + reserved-space-up-to 16 GiB 
: 32 GB + reserved-space-up-to 32 GiB
: 64 GB + reserved-space-up-to 64 GiB 
 
etc. ( just to be able to calculate the offsets in case of repairing tables / recovery )
--- if you ask why --- BECAUSE ( in the logical ones interchangeable SetUps / Installed Versions of mostly Linux-LVM2-Container-Stuff awaits editing / direct-booting / cloning / deploying / virtualizing / etc. via Network/SDHC/CompactFlash/VHD(1/RAW)/DVD/BluRay )
 
So just in case one can follow - this is all about having a fixed grid that can be calculated in disaster case by hand and also can be setup dependent on a fixed set of hardware for storage/backup/deployment-purposes
 
 
However
 
The last logical-partition is the grub-stage 1.5 / the full grub2 --- aka the bios-boot which can already and should be runable in any mode (bios/csm/efi) problem is sometimes it does / sometimes not
 
--- so right now i am staggering with gaining the feel of when something will definately go to break ;
 
3. After the extended partition (well-defined as you might have understood right now and so far according to Steves notes on Easy2Boot )
--- the hybrid mbr
--- JUST contains the ESP as first primary
--- and the extended partition 
--- containing a plaintext-copy of the EP-PBR-LIST
--- followed by the Logicals
--- followed and therefore ended/closed by the grub2 bios-boot partition
 
... and here it comes : the icing on the top of the fire-pickle-carrying water-rock-climbing-deep-sky-diver drowning under it :
 
--- all that is followed by the MSR ( MicroSoft Reserved Partition which can be 32MiB if just followed by one 16GiB GPT-Partition or 128 MiB for any bigger amounts following )
 
... so the MSR states the border between the (hybrid-)MBR-Portion and the GPT-Piss-In-Rest-Portions of the drive .
 
... I know, i know you might think i am crazy and one could do that easier ; Well if so please show me the way . If not feel free to tinker with it .
 
The main problem right now is the layout of the grid to specify where the partitions have to start and end so that
--- enough space is inbetween
--- the offsets accord to the rules given by MBR | GPT | BIOS | EFI and the necessities of the bootloaders
--- and the offsets have to fit into the possible formats ( 512Byte/2kb/AF or conditions like having the ESP fat28/32 with 4k-clusters etc. )
 
All in all its simple , but to create it practically has to be done step-by-step and though almost all parts behave like they should if used on their own it is problematic because i haven't found the least common denominator for the partition-splitting.
 
And also i am not sure about things like in fact Mac OS X as stated on rodsbook has a definitive problem with hybrid-mbr protected ee-partition-type additionally ; it is true but i haven't found an alternative yet that is untouched by other operating systems ( besides x88 which is recognized by some os but doesn't bother them ) .
 
 
Well, that's it in a round-up for now.
 
When time comes - i'll try to essay out the conclusions and spend some drawings and attaching some partition tables and configurations; Until then : Maybe one has a deeper knowledge and an interest in it and is willed to help out with some thoughts to give the cuddle-muddle in my head based on some hundred tested variants until now a better shape .
 
 
YOU DID IT ! I AM PROUD OF YOU !! YOU BEHAVED BRAVE !!!
 
Now forget about all that crap, go get a girl or a drink or show your kid why you have that funny unexplainable look on your face ...
 
 
THANKS FOR YOUR INTEREST .
 
S466531257 BOSS
PAETH CLAUDIUSRAPHAEL
 
P.S.: You are save now ... That was the last post from my side, mostly because
: Reboot.Pro tells me ' You can make 1 more posts until A minute ago. '  :dubbio:
 
BURN AFTER READING .
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Does UEFI booting read the MBR or PBR?

August 5, 2015, 12:16 pm
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Is there a way with USB Flash drives to automatically use BOOTMGR.EFI if UEFI-booting, otherwise use say grub4dos? I'm trying to make an absurdly compatible Easy2Boot setup where it boots into BOOTMGR by default only if UEFI-booting. Would I need to hack grldr to rename it to "bootmgr" for MBR loading, or can I just leave the Easy2Boot MBR & PBR records and place the necessary EFI files on the root? Not sure if EFI/UEFI even generally looks at the MBR or PBR.

 

I also want to do this for bootable DVDs too, but I suspect it's some fancy oscdimg command.

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grub4dos match 1 partition to another

August 5, 2015, 12:29 pm
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From title: map*

 

I have a linux boot environment that is hardcoded to using "partition" 2. I cannot change this environment. I am using grub4dos to boot this environment.

 

I have made changes to the hard disk, and now the partition that the linux environment uses should be "3".

 

Is there a way to do the "map (hd0) (hd1)" command, but with partitions? "map (hd0,2) (hd0,3) map (hd0,3) (hd0,2)"?

 

Is there a way to fake the partition order so that I can re-use the existing bootable linux environment?

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Windows 10 live

August 5, 2015, 1:44 pm
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è possibile creare un live di win10 da usare con grub4dos ?

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Imdisk article: creating 10Gb RAM disks

August 6, 2015, 4:09 am
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Privacy Badger

August 6, 2015, 11:40 am
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boot bugs...and a request

August 7, 2015, 3:08 am
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i made a win7 x64that is lited to the maxxx

i have few troubles with the boot part .

 

by now i use a lzma file on the usb , i transfered the file to another stick of 4 Go formated with fat16 , grub find the boot partition on hd[0,3] but does not show the boot menu...

 

to boot quickly , i made a copy of the lzma file decompressed on the same boot drive as the one having the original vhd .

so this disk use the win7 boot meny , i select grub4dos , it loads the vhd in ram but i got the error c000000d few seconds after win7 boot in texy mode , that error is normally happening with windows update...

is it because i use twice the win7 menu ? 

 

here is the menu.lst
 
title Boot  Windows 7 x64 from Image 4629/5120 MB  491 MB free
find --set-root --ignore-floppies /bty.vhd
map --mem /bty.vhd (hd0)
map --hook
root (hd0,0)
chainloader  /bootmgr
boot
 
 

last thing is the idea i had that is close to the dynamic vhd but from the other side....

i mean that i shrinked to the maxxx my win7 x64 so now my vhd is having a size of 5Go  with files using 4629/5120 MB  so i have 491 MB free ....

i use it to do video capture....but i think that sometimes i would like to install others software for edition ..so comes the size trouble...

 

as grub4dos check the size of the vhd and consider it as a hdrive , there is the possibility to append a parameter about the size of drive  , in my case it would be 6 Go or 7 instead of the defined in the vhd 5 Go ...

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for our german ...italian friends...map of ozone

August 7, 2015, 3:57 am
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i am used to look at a french website that checks the ozone level of the air outside...beside the weather news ...

north of italia is always having high level of ozone ...the max and surely above that highest level 

but today even all germany is covered...

 

Capture_ozone_europe.jpg

 

website is : http://www2.prevair.org/

 

 

have a nice day not moving too much

 

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Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB - Mother of all tweak scripts

August 7, 2015, 6:54 am
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I present a rather lengthy script for tweaking and modifying Windows 10 Enterprise N LTSB x64 en-US.
Use at your own risk.
Backup entire registry before applying any part of the script.
 
VERSION: 0.8.8

DATE LAST MODIFIED: 2015-08-07
CREATED BY: ERICGL
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PDF File attached.

Attached File  CMD Script for tweaking Win10 Enterprise LTSB v0.8.8.pdf   89.07KB   8 downloads

 

Alternative download link (Mega).

 

Cheers  :cheers: .

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best mbr/partition back ups?

August 7, 2015, 7:33 am
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hi all,

I want to add a logical partition with Xpx64 at the end of a 1.5TB USB HDD. has 11 partitions on it now that I spent alot of time to make work because most of the partitions Ive made bootable using PTEdit and adjusting offsets to boot from logical.

before I make any changes to the partition structure I want to make sure I have a solid back-up strategy first since Ive lost work like this in the past by adding to it. one time I had a similar setup and when attempting this same thing (adding a single logical partition at the end) somehow all the partitions in the extended area disappeared!


what tools do I need to use to be able to recover from this if it happens again?

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Grub4Dos problems

August 8, 2015, 2:34 am
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Hi, I am having big problems here.

 

I am on a Windows 7 machine that using Grub4Dos, and I am getting a file not found error :15.

 

There is no way for me to boot up this machine. I cant use a recovery cd/flash since all my USB ports are 3.0 and Win 7 only supports 2.0. No keyboard and mouse works with win7 in recovery mode. Tried that several of times now.

 

So, anyone knows how I can manage to boot up the machine from the console?

 

Or is there another way to recreate MBR?

 

It is a Win7 installation on mac, using Boot camp.

 

Best regards, Joakim

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error booting XPx64 from extended partition

August 8, 2015, 6:00 am
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Hi all,

I am trying to boot XPx64 from an extended partition and get this BSOD error:

STOP: c0000130 Unknown Hard Error
\SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll


I have grub4dos on a USB HDD, primary, ntfs, active partition that is also booting XPsp3x86 directly so I am starting grub4dos from the boot.ini and my menu.lst entry is this:

title XPx64
root (hd0,5)
chainloader /ntldr

I have edited the partition table to allow booting XP from extended partition following this guide: http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ptable.shtml as suggested on this thread: http://reboot.pro/topic/11054-boot-windows-from-extended-partition/

this works for booting another XPx86 from the extended partition with the exact same set-up including the exact same partition but when I put XPx64 in this same extended partition I get the BSOD.


I am thinking that maybe the chainloader /ntldr command is loading the wrong ntldr (the one that is in the primary partition with XPx86) Im not sure if that is it or something else.

can someone help me resolve this? thanks
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NT 6.x fast installer: install win7 directly to usb external drive

August 8, 2015, 6:57 am
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I reopen the removed post request by the admin

As you know, stupid setup.exe for nt 6.x (vista/win7/2008/2008 r2) has many limitations:

1. You can't start install vista/win7 under xp based pe (winpe 1.x) and can't install win7 under win2000
2. You can't install win7 directly to USB hard disk
3. The stupid setup.exe may put the boot files to a wrong drive when you boot winpe with USB device and there is even no way to choose the boot partition Posted Image
4. When you install win7 from winpe, the drive letter of the OS partition will always be C:, no matter which partition you choose.

On the other hand, the fastest way to install nt 6.x is imagex+bcdboot, e.g

imagex f:\sources\install.wim 5 c:

bcdboot c:\windows /s c:

bootsect /nt60 c:

And no setup.exe is needed.

Based on this, I wrote an "nt 6.x fast installer" which has the following advatages compare to the original M$ setup.exe:
1. You can install nt 6.x directly from iso file mounted by any kind of virtual drive.
And you needn't extract or burn the iso.
2. You can directly install nt 6.x from any version winpe and win2000 above windows
3. You can install the OS directly onto a USB external hard drive.
And no virtual machine, copy tool or complicated "tutorial" is needed.
4. You can manually choose which partition is the boot partition.
5. You can decide which letter the OS partition will occupy in Win7/2008 R2.
6. The install speed is very fast. With this installer, you can install win7 in 11-12 min for 5400rpm notebook hdd, and in less than 10min for desktop 7200 hdd (vista needs about 2 min more because of the score evaluation)

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OK, let's see if some one can help me understand bitcoins

August 8, 2015, 1:14 pm
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It's something I simply cannot grasp/understand. :w00t:

I've read the very basics:
http://atvelu.poster...why-everyone-is
http://barterfanatic...eck-is-bitcoin/
http://www.economist...irtual-currency
http://anisesmith.am...k-is-a-bitcoin/
http://techcrunch.co.../bitcoin-crazy/

http://www.investitwisely.com/bitcoin-the-digital-currency-of-the-future/

I do understand the freedom idea and the no "central control" thingy.

If I get it right, the idea of most peeps to get rich is to "mine" a bitcoin from a mind-bogglingly big set of cryptographic data by bruteforcing calculations and dedicating CPU/GPU power to it.

The only rational explanation I can find (once excluded the nice "basic idea" and the "freedom and no central control" and "bla and bla", that as a "proof of concept" seems nice and interesting to me :thumbsup: ) is that someone is finding a way to have people consume more electricity and bandwidth with no reason whatsoever :confused1: , with the added "bonus" of a few peeps (possibly) harvesting e-mails in exchange for free bitcoins :dubbio: .

What the heck do these guys do?:
http://www.freebitco...at-are-bitcoins


This shows how old middle-aged I am getting:

The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.


I would be happy :) if any member would try and explain his/her point of view on this thingy and/or help me undrstanding what the heck is all the fuss about this.

The only (nice) thing that I can remember that seems somehow similar to this is Calvin & Hobbes playing Calvinball:
http://www.bartel.org/calvinball/
http://calvinandhobb...wiki/Calvinball

Other kids' games are all such a bore!
They've gotta have rules and they gotta keep score!
Calvinball is better by far!
It's never the same! It's always bizarre!
You don't need a team or a referee!
You know that it's great, 'cause it's named after me!



:cheers:
Wonko
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Win10 New section

August 8, 2015, 3:10 pm
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I think it is time to open a new section in forum for Win10, it's not in beta any more.

 

Also some moderator could move several topics about Win10 (started after RTM) to this new section (when created).

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