Re: [H] Looking for Booting utility
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: I'm looking for a utility that will allow me to install it onto a USB drive and select a floppy, cd or dvd image to boot from. I'd like for it to be able install directly to the USB, then you would use a utility like linux dd or windows rawwrite to create images of floppy disks, or just take an ISO file and boot from that. Best setup for it would be to be able to just drop the images into a directory on the USB drive, boot from the USB drive and get a selection list where you select which image you want to boot. Anyone know anything that'll do that? As I expected, I was likely asking for a bit too much here =) That said, I did find the Super Grub Disk, which allows you to install the grub boot loader to a ThumbDrive, then using grub I can boot floppy images. I now have Ghost, Partition Magic, Spinrite, NTPasswd Reset and memtest all on a single USB Thumb Drive. I will be adding a Bart PE Environment as well as a knoppix install using a regular filesystem (assuming I can fit both into a 2GB Flash). Unfortunately, for me the Super Grub Disk doesn't work on my laptop, not too big of an issue other than it added about 2 hours of troubleshooting to my testing. Once I tested on a desktop here in the office everything fell into place quickly. Super Grub disk has a lot of MBR utilities built in, can repair broken MBR's, edit them, etc. Very nice program for techs. Christopher Fisk -- Peter Griffin: So if I walk through you, does that mean that we've, you know, done it? Ghost: Geez, what's with you and the gay jokes? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] XP Home ?
Home defaults to loging in a guest AFAIK due to lack of security controls permanent simple file sharing enabled. That would explain need alternate credentials. Home is an abomination for the simple fact that it was security related things that were removed! FORC5 wrote: Correct LAN not WAN, internet works fine either WIFY or hardwired Router assigns the ip correct, one local box comes right back in on reboot, the other two did not. Workaround was to give it the same user/pw as the other boxes. Lame work around I know. Have seen this over and over in Home, but sometimes home works even with a different workgroup. Very strange I think. thanks fp At 03:21 PM 2/18/2009, maccrawj Poked the stick with: 1. LAN not WAN 2. It gets an IP 3. can talk to one system but not others Can you ping all the other systems? What about internet? Logon in what sense, to a share? FORC5 wrote: Just picked up a netbook for travel. Being XP Home it will not stay connected to my LAN on reboot. Well most anyway. Have 3 systems on the LAN, one it re connects to, the others it does not and I have no idea. Barring putting in Pro there has to be a way to tell Home to reconnect at log on since it does connect to one. I have looked in the past for the answer to this with no luck. Pro has the little box telling it to log back on. Has to be a way to force home to do the same thing. Thanks fp -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- The only realities are the atoms and empty space.
[H] Running multiple AVs at once?
Is there any harm in running more than one AV program at the same time? I have three programs installed, AVG 8.0, Spy-Bot and Malwarebyte. They each take about 45 mins to 1 hr to run. Sometimes I'll run 2 of them overnight at the same time. Is there any way that doing this will cause either one to miss something? Could I possibly run all 3 at the same time?
Re: [H] Running multiple AVs at once?
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Veech wrote: Is there any harm in running more than one AV program at the same time? I have three programs installed, AVG 8.0, Spy-Bot and Malwarebyte. They each take about 45 mins to 1 hr to run. Sometimes I'll run 2 of them overnight at the same time. Is there any way that doing this will cause either one to miss something? Could I possibly run all 3 at the same time? Running something like Spy Bot or Malwarebytes at the same time as an Antivirus scan is unnessary. Think about it: Your AV program has an on access scanner. When you scan your computer for Malware using Malwarebytes, it's opening up each file and looking at it for malware. Before the AV program lets Malwarebytes look at the program it scans it, and if it's detected as a virus you will get a notification. Christopher Fisk -- Merchant: Sir, I must strongly advise you, do not purchase this. Behind every wish lurks grave misfortune. I, myself, was one president of Algeria. Homer: C'mon, pal, I don't want to hear your life story! Paw me. Treehouse of Horror II -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
Re: [H] XP Home ?
not b4 vacation but I will probably update the netbook to pro and maybe a larger drive. Very least consolidate the c and d partitions. ( homework reveals that the recovery partition is hidden and marked PE in management) thanks fp At 01:46 PM 2/20/2009, maccrawj Poked the stick with: Home defaults to loging in a guest AFAIK due to lack of security controls permanent simple file sharing enabled. That would explain need alternate credentials. Home is an abomination for the simple fact that it was security related things that were removed! -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Get your exercise as a pallbearer for exercising friends.
Re: [H] Looking for Booting utility
You might want to see what would be involved getting Hiren's Boot Utilities onto a USB drive. It's been so long there may already be a USB version. If you see how he did the different directories you might be able to figure out how to add your own utilities to the menu. lopaka --- On Fri, 2/20/09, Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.net wrote: From: Christopher Fisk chr...@mhonline.net Subject: Re: [H] Looking for Booting utility To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 6:08 AM On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Christopher Fisk wrote: I'm looking for a utility that will allow me to install it onto a USB drive and select a floppy, cd or dvd image to boot from. I'd like for it to be able install directly to the USB, then you would use a utility like linux dd or windows rawwrite to create images of floppy disks, or just take an ISO file and boot from that. Best setup for it would be to be able to just drop the images into a directory on the USB drive, boot from the USB drive and get a selection list where you select which image you want to boot. Anyone know anything that'll do that? As I expected, I was likely asking for a bit too much here =) That said, I did find the Super Grub Disk, which allows you to install the grub boot loader to a ThumbDrive, then using grub I can boot floppy images. I now have Ghost, Partition Magic, Spinrite, NTPasswd Reset and memtest all on a single USB Thumb Drive. I will be adding a Bart PE Environment as well as a knoppix install using a regular filesystem (assuming I can fit both into a 2GB Flash). Unfortunately, for me the Super Grub Disk doesn't work on my laptop, not too big of an issue other than it added about 2 hours of troubleshooting to my testing. Once I tested on a desktop here in the office everything fell into place quickly. Super Grub disk has a lot of MBR utilities built in, can repair broken MBR's, edit them, etc. Very nice program for techs. Christopher Fisk -- Peter Griffin: So if I walk through you, does that mean that we've, you know, done it? Ghost: Geez, what's with you and the gay jokes? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
