Clppy! vs SHANiA

Nostolgia heavy video. See what happened to "Ask Jeeves!".

Great. Not surprised, but now is public.

http://hothardware.com/news/researchers-discover-rootkit-exploit-in-intel-processors-that-dates-back-to-1997

Well,

i just did an example-setup on one of my HP EliteBooks ( 2730 p in this case ) installed Server 2008 64 on GPT and obviously stuck in some update-procedures ( but i forgot already that i have been configuring it ) ; On the same ( internal SSD --- GPT formatted -- don't forget that ) which I already booted for about 50 times i just installed Server 2008 ( manually ) into a VHD and used bootsect to write via nt60-Option BootMGR to the virtual-Disk; Normally i do this to avoid manually copying and configuring the locations for the vhd, as Windows Setup ( at least in 7+ Editions ) gets that and refreshes the BCD with the actually installed VHD-Native-Boot-System as top-entry in bcd-boot-mnu.

However, as i restarted after setup has finished i wanted to boot into the system ( W 2008 Server R2 ) and it tried to boot but shows me the typical can-not-acces-disk-content-error ( whatever the code is - dunno right now ) ;

But when i select the originally installed Win 2008 Server ( not R2 ) on the gpt-formatted ssd to boot, it boots right up, though it takes longer than usually. Hmm, i thought, okay maybe something wrong. Look up the BCD-Store at first, to tell if something there hinders the original Server to boot flawlessly and that gives hint what the fuck the prob is with the R2-one.

Well, because i always do that; i started diskpart before and the diskmgmt.msc and i was wondering already, what da f happened ?

Now i have an inaccessible Windows Server 2008 R2 installed into VHD ( multi-partition; mounted \Windows and \Program Files and \Users to logical Partitions --- all ntfs compressed unit=4k basic primary in vhd is offset=32kb and align=4k ; logicals to be later robocopd by cloning uids ) which boots until it tries to access itself natively ( when 'disk'-sub-system loads ) and a bootable ( originally on GPT installed ) Windows Server 2008 which believes it runs from a mbr-disk and shows 2 primary partitions - one for the Windows-System and the HP-UEFI-Partition ( EFI System Partition );

Thing is : I can boot the Windows Server 2008 now via bootmgr from Compatibility-Mode BUT if i wish to use BOOTMGR from EFI it stops loading; In manual selection of EFI-Boot-by-select-from-file the Primary Partition ( originally GPT Primary where Windows Server 2008 is ) is not shown, instead only the HP-UEFI-System-Partition );

So in fact the GPT-Disk is definitive MBR now, whereas the ESP is accessible form both variants AND the BOOTMGR is accessible from both variants ( like in a manually setup Hybrid-MBR with ESP as active boot partition ) BUT Windows Server 2008 only loads when booted via CSM-BIOS;

ANY IDEAS ON THAT ???

To reproduce:

Install Windows Server 2008 ( standard install on GPT -- results in boot-partition + system-partition ) plus having an EFI-System-Partition at the end ;

After that: Install Windows Server 2008 R2 into vhd ( 1primary plus extended containing 3 logicals, though i would say its the same with one primary --- formatted in mbr-mode ) via manually creating/attaching/configuring/formatting vhd before effectively starting the Windows-SetUp.

After that GPT-Disk is MBR-Disk -- Windows-Boot-Partition is gone -- ESP-BOOTMGR is bootable from EFI and CSM but only loads fully via BIOS-Mode and the VHD hangs at disk-sub-system-activation;

CAN SOMEONE REPRODUCE THAT ?  ( because i can ... |  btw.: i am too lazy to upload xoto|Screenshots first to then embed them here - but if absolutely needed ... )

I've been using this great tool (imdisk ramdrive) for a couple of years now on Window 7.

I just upgraded to Windows 10, and installed 2.0.5.. sadly although it seems to work perfectly, the drive doesn't persist.

After every reboot I have to re-run the config UI. (didn't have to do this on Win 7!)

I understand there is a way to manually setup the event scheduler to invoke imdisk on startup - but when I run this command line I get the following error

Please read the entire post before downloading it..

Here's a tiny fun project; https://github.com/jschicht/PowerMft

It is a commandline tool that enables low level modification to NTFS system files. Currently it supports direct edit of the following attributes in MFT records:

• The record header
• $STANDARD_INFORMATION
• $FILE_NAME
• $I30 index in $INDEX_ROOT and $INDEX_ALLOCATION (parent of target)
• $O index in $ObjId at $INDEX_ROOT/$INDEX_ALLOCATION (relevant for files containing the $OBJECT_ID attribute)
• $R index in $Reparse at $INDEX_ROOT/$INDEX_ALLOCATION (relevant for files containing the $REPARSE_POINT attribute)

Read the readme for more detailed information about usage.

It's a good start, and more can be added for sure.

Is this a useful tool? If you are not sure what this is, do not download and mess with it! It is very likely that you will end up with a broken volume or deleted files, either through incorrect use of the tool or bugs in the code. A big WARNING is therefore submitted for a very good reason. Don't blame me for any lost data or damage done through the use of this tool, as you have been warned. This tool is ONLY provided for educational purpose.

Set aside all the harm this tool can do, there is at least 1 use case (not being a mis-use) I can think of ..

For invalid filenames (possibly generated by other non-Windows OS) there does not exist any native tool or method in Windows to fix those filenames. Chkdsk will only be able to fix it by deleting the file, even though it reports it as a minor filename error!!

Hi

I've used WinBuilder five years ago or like that, I don't remember much of this world, so I come here to the forum with some questions like a newbie...

My first question is:

How I can disable the boot-menu in Win7PE SE?

I would like the Live O.S. to be ran without selecting it in a boot-menu. Is this possible to do?

And, as a  suggestion: please add an official script to personalize this behavior on the Win7PE SE project, like whether the end-user want to show or not a boot-menu, the options/elements of the boot-menu, the timeout seconds, and those things that I would like to know to do.

Thanks

Hi

I'm not understanding the reason why exists this Win8 PE dedicated subforum since in the WinBuilder GUI doesn't appear any Windows 8 based project to download, then ...what the hell I'm missing about this?,

because if there isn't a downloadable Win8 PE project for WinBuilder then how the people can use Windows 8 as source?, what I'm ignoring? how I can do that? ...or maybe i need to do it in the real-hard way using ADK tools to generate a default Win8 PE with the Windows PE Tools Command Prompt and those other tools?, really, what I'm missing?, I would like to test a Win8 (or Win10) PE project .

Is there an official Win8PE project? ...and maybe a Win10PE?, I suppose yes because the existance of this subforum.

If not, somebody could explain or link an article about the steps to do a Win8PE (and optionally Win10) in WinBuilder?

Thanks a lot.

• CloneDisk (included)
• DMDE (included)
• Forensic Acquisition Utilities (included)
• FTK Imager (copied from local install)
• HWiNFO (included)
• LinuxReader (downloaded automatically)
• MW Snap (included)
• NT Password Edit (included)
• Opera (included)
• Sumatra PDF Reader (included)
• WinHex (copied from local install)
• X-Ways Forensics (copied from local install)
• Write Protect Tool (included)

I'm having trouble installing Arch Linux alongside Windows *whatever* on a Samsung 850 EVO SSD. I recognize this may be a better post for the Arch forums rather than reboot.pro, but quite frankly, I post on very few other forums anyway. And I believe this may be due to some anomaly with my hardware rather than with Arch itself.

I have 2 internal drives, the SSD, and a HDD in an optical caddy. Arch's /root partition will be on the SSD, with the /home and swap partitions on the HDD.

But I always get this error:

The most prominent things in this picture that stand out are "ATA bus error" (not sure what this means but I think it's related to one of my drives), and "failed command: write FPDMA queued". It always happens either after trying to format and mount my 2 partitions, or when using the "pacstrap -i /mnt base base-devel" command to try to download the necessary system files and write them to disk. The install commmences normally up until then, because no info is written to disk until the partition creation/mounting/downloading begins. Arch is a CLI-only installer, no point-and-click GUI. I've installed it many times before on different machines, so I'm confident I'm following the installation guide correctly (and reading it along the way to be sure).

I've also checked the hash of my ISO to ensure integrity, try booting it as an emulated USB and disc from my Note 4 via DriveDroid app. Creating a physical USB gives the same results. And the same USB works fine for installing Arch on a friend's Toshiba laptop. So I think this eliminates the source ISO as the cause.

I can install other Linux variants like Kali or Mint. But I get errors in the kernel log when booting Kali, (the text that flys by when booting, not sure what it's called), which seems to say something about the SSd's EFI partition having an invalid/incorrect number of sectors (it's 512MB MB in size), with the message "not automatically fixing this". Kali boots fine otherwise, but that message is troubling. There are also other Arch alternatives, the most prominent probably being ArchBang, that have a GUI installer, which are based on Arch with minimal changes, and installing it would probably work (it did before). But this isn't considered "pure", and Archers view these other distros as taking shortcuts. While I don't necessarily agree or disagree with some hardcore Arch users, I would rather build from the ground up for the learning experience than install a similar distro that does some of the work for me.

It makes no difference whether I install in native UEFI, UEFI DUET, or BIOS/MBR mode, I always get these errors when installing Arch or booting Kali. So I don't think this is related to firmware booting mode or partitioning. Both disks are standard GPT with an EFI partition, with multiple other partitions containing different filesystems for other OSes, storing data/files, etc.

Any help would be appreciated!

Hello FreeDOS users!


I'm pleased to announce the release of Terminal Matrix 8086, a mysterious program designed to establish an inter-dimensional connection to an hyper-dimensional being called RIS.

http://oitofelix.github.io/terminal-matrix-8086/


Also, I'm pleased to announce the release of DeciMatrix 8086, a program designed to decode the Matrix into decimal.  It's a spin-off of the Terminal Matrix 8086’s DCMATRIX command.

http://oitofelix.github.io/decimatrix-8086/


Finally, I'm pleased to announce the release of QDot 8086, a mid-level programming language targeting the original IBM-PC architecture written as a set of macros for NASM — the Netwide Assembler.  It's the language in which Terminal Matrix and DeciMatrix are written.

http://oitofelix.github.io/qdot-8086/


Happy hacking!

Sorry for asking this, I've been reading the forum and FAQ but there is no clear answer.

I have a 32-bit XP with sp3, on a system with 8GB RAM (64-bit capable CPU).

PAE is forced enabled, and installed imdisk (and verified the awealloc service is running).  Using IMdiskTK.

No matter how big or how small the ramdisk is enabled, it takes up the actual working memory under 2.7GB (that how much my windows can see the RAM).

In the event log, it complained about AWE cannot allocate 8GB, 6GB, ..... which were mentioned in other posts within this forum.

Just so before I give up the fight, I just want to confirm a few things:

* XP 32-bit, even with PAE, can access no more than 4GB RAM (despite I have 8 on the system)?

* even in this case, is there a reason why awealloc cannot allocate even the smallest RAM disk outside of the usable RAM, as I would like to take advantage of the unusable RAM.  I must run XP due to drivers for several hardware.

Any other things I can try?   I've also tested Gavotte RAMdisk and got the same result in eventlog.

Thanks in advance.

I want to make a PE with XP (preferably), or 7. Beside DiskCryptor, and Macrium Reflect Free, I don't really need anything else.
But I don't know what to use - this website has WinBuilder 2013.09.01 as a featured download. The tutorials I've found are for some undisclosed versions (but not that ^ one). Even your own tutorial from here:
http://reboot.pro/topic/4111-newcomers-tutorial-livexp-win7pe-portable-apps/
just adds to my confusion:
 

The projects discussed in this tutorial are customized and frozen versions of their progenitors, LiveXP and Win7PE_SE. They are more or less updated to reflect their counterparts but have different setups and contain additional scripts and features not offered in the official versions found elsewhere in the forum.

My only other PE experience was with BartPE, so I'm a "little" overwhelmed
I got other questions too, but let's take it one step at a time

I had Windows 7 installed on C drive and i created disk image of C drive with Acronis before encrypting the system drive with TrueCrypt. Yesterday, i decided to recover the system drive from the acronis image but it didn't work.
When i started Acronis and selected the image it asked me to restart the computer, but after restarting the computer on boot screen i got this message: mbr error 3 press any key to boot from floppy.
If i press a key nothing happens, just the same message appear again. And after this i was unable to load Windows at all, just getting the same message after restarting, and i had to reinstall it from scratch.

Any idea what could be the reason for this mbr error message?

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hi all

first accept my sincere apologies as this is going to be a rather long tale, and even though i've tried my best to be as exact as possible, .i might have still made mistakes out of my newbieishness.

i've got a sve151***** notebook with w8 preinstalled; contrary to what many say, i actually like the user experience of w8, but to me at least, it is still so unstable that has made me consider installng a w7 alongside it, i.e, have both on the same dsk. 

i've been told by many that it's not possible to have them both on a gpt dsk in uefi mode, but the retail w7 img i own has an option for making a bootable stick in uefi mode; so i grabbed Rufus and whoa! i had a bootable stick and i began installing w7 on a gpt partitoin i had prepard for the exactly same purpose;

 then it all began.

things were all going ok until i reached the dreaded "Startng Windows"; no matter how much i tried, i was not blessed enough to get past it.

but things were much more strange than they lookd to be: the logo had a "throbbing" to it , and all the time i thought nothing was going on , i could witness the hard LED blink contnuously , suggesting something WAS going on ;

indeed, something was going on. the notebook actually restarted about 4 times (even though all i was shown all the way was a bare throbbing logo of w7); and each time it restarted, there was a new boot entry -- first it was Windows setup , then, when things were supposedly "done" in the final restart, there was a boot entry above my own 8.1 sys, and it was named Windows 7 ;this raised my suspicions even higher -- had w7 been installed even though it lookd to have stayd inactive on the throbbing "Startnig Wnidows" ? i was sure there was something wrong , so i tried installing Windows10 to check whether anything goes wrong too. Nothing went wrong. i was gradually losing control.

Then, in what i rather call a feat of madness, i replaced the "boot.wim" on my w7 installation stick with the "boot.wim" from a w8 stick i'd prepar'd some time ago and rebooted.i got a 0x000000e-something which meant i could not get to have a nice booting.

i did not surrender though. i bootd into my good old w8 parttiion, went to w7 stick (drive D: in my case), launched setup and went along; when it was done "Copying", it rebooted when it reached 20 % in "Expanding" ; i was sure i'm to hit against the dreaded w7 start scr again.

but then something weird happend. there was no such thing as a w7 startup logo. i could not believe (even though i had expected) that the startup logo was that of w8 -- i mean those rotary dots. i thought i was either stuck again, or i had chosen my w8 by mistake, but then, whoa! the "Installng Windows " appeard, with "Expanding" continuing past 20 % and all things went well (i.e, got green checkmakrs) right until the "Completing" level, when the final reboot occur'd.

i was expecting it to finally boot from the dsk with no kind of issues, like as the instllr  had eventually been made to boot from the stick; but, as i suspected, it didn't.

as it turns out, booting into installtaion depends on boot.wim while bootng into what is going to be the final,insatlled w7 depends on the  install.wim; now, what is certain is th"at there is something necessary for a successful boot in    w8.1's "boot.wim"  that its w7 equivalent is lacking in . i'd be glad to know what it is , or whether there exists some other way to get a w7 to boot/instll on a gpt dsk in uefi mode.

thanks a lot for reading this far, and thanks in advance for any ideas you provide on this matter.

Regards,

Ellas

Spyhunter
Windows XP
Windows Vista/7

debug off
default 0
timeout 3
title SpyHunter
find --set-root /sh4ldr/vmlinuz
kernel /sh4ldr/vmlinuz quiet
initrd /sh4ldr/initrd.gz
title Windows XP
find --set-root /ntldr_
chainloader /ntldr_
makeactive
title Windows Vista/7
find --set-root /bootmgr_
chainloader /bootmgr_
makeactive

chainloader /bootmgr
boot

find --set-root /bootmgr
chainloader /bootmgr
boot

chainloader /windows/boot/pcat/bootmgr
boot

find --set-root /windows/boot/pcat/bootmgr
chainloader /windows/boot/pcat/bootmgr
boot

find --set-root /windows/boot/pcat/bootmgr
chainloader --edx=0x0080 /windows/boot/pcat/bootmgr
boot

So I got the error 13, been searching online for days and can't seems to find the solution for my case

1) root (hd0,0) and nothing happens

2) ls /Windows/Boot/PCAT/bootmgr and i get error 15 file not found

3) chainloader /Windows/Boot/PCAT/bootmgr same error 15

4) boot and I get error 8, Kenel must be loaded before booting

The solution is to get wind 7 dvd and to run the window repair but i lost my disc after moving house, and all the original window online download sites had been removed, directing to the main microsoft website but i do not have my serial key to download it.

Need help ):  Wonko are you there????

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Are there any ways to fix my problem?