Re: [LIB] How to...? (add 32 Mo of RAM to my 32 Mo 100CT)
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 15:44:58 +0200 From: Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] How to...? (add 32 Mo of RAM to my 32 Mo 100CT) on 8/08/03 14:01, Fran at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pull up the strip between the keyboard and the screen. Lift the keyboard out. The ram goes on the left. Thank you very much! And it has been a great idea to ask and wait:-) Otherwise and alone, I think I should have first unscrew everything in the bottom of the Libretto... Best regards, -- Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] !File recovery crisis!
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 22:34:46 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] !File recovery crisis! Hi Matt, I've just had problem with Partition Magic destroying the file system on a desktop HDD with Win98 installed in one big FAT32 10GB partition. Ouch! I'm guessing the file system must have been badly corrupted. But there's one important file I'd like to retrieve from the root C:\ folder if possible. Perhaps ... one thing to try may be to try and see if PM has blown away the second copy of your FAT ... I've just run across http://www.datarescue.com/laboratory/partition4.htm which talks about this sorta thing and has a few links, I've not read it too carefully (it seems to be about how to recover from a CIH virus attack) but it may be of use ... I've been playing with the WinHex editor David mentioned a while back, and have had some luck retrieving part of the file running an automated file recovery option. But I'm only getting about 1/3 of the entire file. I'm wondering if there's a way to locate the remainder of the file's data, and reconstruct the whole thing manually. OK what type of file is this and how big is it? Is it the sort that you could recognise portions of 'on sight' (eg. a text file), is it a 'reasonably' well behaved type (such as a jpeg) or is it one that goes everywhere (a bitmap, an encrypted file, etc.)? Also could you have a guess as to how fragmented the disk might have been? What I'm angling at here is how practical would it be to walk the disk manually, in the vicinity of where the other fragments are, in the hope of finding more bits and pieces? Don't laugh, I managed to recover most of the pictures from a memory card this way ... the card had been zapped and various logical holes formed, including over the equivalent of the FAT (to the extent that a computer trying to read it through a USB cardreader would freeze). I managed to get my libby to pick it up as a disk of some sort using a PCMCIA reader (but it still didn't know how big it was), I took a binary dump of it using Norton DiskTools (which somehow managed to figure it was 64MB) then I used a hex editor to figure out where file fragments started and ended and separated the files out ... now you've got a somewhat harder job, I knew that there were only jpeg files on this 'disk' so I knew what to look for at the start and end of things (and, for the most part, where 'mismatched' chunks where) but you may still have some success ... Good luck! - Raymond --- /~\ | | Does fuzzy logic tickle?| | ___ | My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup? | | /__/ +---| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] !File recovery crisis!
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 01:07:50 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: !File recovery crisis! I wonder if anyone on the list might be able to help me. Seems our numbers are getting low though... I'm praying someone out there may have some suggestions. I've just had problem with Partition Magic destroying the file system on a desktop HDD with Win98 installed in one big FAT32 10GB partition. Im guessing the file system must have been badly corrupted. But theres one important file I'd like to retrieve from the root C:\ folder if possible. I've been playing with the WinHex editor David mentioned a while back, and have had some luck retrieving part of the file running an automated file recovery option. But Im only getting about 1/3 of the entire file. Im wondering if theres a way to locate the remainder of the files data, and reconstruct the whole thing manually. If anyone reading the list might knows how to go about this sort of thing, or what kind of software may be able to do the job, I'd really appreciate hearing from you. Thanks, Matt _ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
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Re: RE: [LIB] Charging problem and dead batteries
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 5:32:43 + From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: [LIB] Charging problem and dead batteries From: Steven Knight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/07/28 Mon PM 07:07:27 GMT Hi all. I too was wondering if any one out there knows a UK company, either selling the battery packs or just compatible battery cells so that I could replace the one in the standard lib battery unit. Steve, I can't recall the UK suppliers immediately but I have found a few in recent months... search for batteries and neil in the archives. Neil - Email provided by http://www.ntlhome.com/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Boot Disk for Libretto 100
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 22:31:39 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Boot Disk for Libretto 100 Hi John, Trying to boot from a clean DOS disk and load CD drives on the Libretto tends to be an exercise in frustration, helped in no part by the fact that when the libby boots off it's floppy disk drive, the PCMCIA slots go into a non-standard mode (normally you need card and socket services loaded to get PCMCIA devices working under DOS, obviously this won't be loaded if you're booting off the floppy drive so instead the BIOS uses some funny mode which confuses the heck out of most if not all other devices). A solution that may leave more hair on your head is to boot back into Windows with the CD-ROM drive drivers installed then copy the contents of the I386 folder from the CD onto the hard drive. Then run winnt32.exe (I think, it may be called something else, I can never remember! It should be the one with 32 on the end though) from the I386 folder from within windows to start the install (don't worry, it gives you the option of an independant install), then once Win2k is fully loaded you can delete the Win98 stuff. If you're low on disk space, I *think* you can get away with running the setup program from the CD without doing the first copy ... IIRC the setup program copies most, if not all of I386 to the hard drive anyway (as in if you do the first copy, you end up with 2 copies of almost all the files on your hard drive anyway). I've not tried it this second way before so I don't know if it causes any problems down the line ... not that it should ... If you're trying to do this from a clean drive, the easiest solution (after you partition in the libretto - check the archives for several rants on this topic!) is to take the hard drive out and put it into a desktop computer then copy the I386 directory across. Then, put it back into the libretto, boot off a DOS boot disk and run the winnt.exe (or whatever the setup file is called ... this time the one without the 32 on the end) setup file and proceed as before. Hope this helps! - Raymond At 07:19 AM 8/08/2003 -0700, you wrote: Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:17:16 +0100 From: John Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Boot Disk for Libretto 100 I am trying to upgrade my hard disk and install win 2000 professional. I bought on e bay a sony pcmcia cd drive model PCGA-CD5. I have installed dos 6.22 on the hard drive but I cannot get the CD drive to work. I have download from devicedriver.com a disk that says it will install the drive for DOS. I tested this on the old drive running WIN 98 and it did inded install the cd drive such that it was visible at the DOS prompt. However now there seems to be a problem with the new hard disk configuration that the Sony CD device driver cant find the drive. I think from the messages that the card sevices are not being started on the Libretto 100. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you John Wilkinson ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest ** --- /~\ | | Does fuzzy logic tickle?| | ___ | My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup? | | /__/ +---| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] How to...? (add 32 Mo of RAM to my 32 Mo 100CT)
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:20:15 +0200 From: Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to...? (add 32 Mo of RAM to my 32 Mo 100CT) Just received the 32 Mo RAM upgrade for my Libretto 100, but I don't know how to do... Can somebody help me just a little, saying where I must open the 100CT? Thank you in advance, -- Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] Screen fault
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 11:47:40 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Screen fault Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:45:49 +0100 From: Malcolm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Screen fault Is this symptomatic of a bad screen cable, and if so, where could I obtain a replacement for a 70 CT and how much would it cost? There's also an LCD at a buy now price of $90: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3426311633category=31569 _ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] 2000 or XP
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 12:59:14 +0400 From: Oleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] 2000 or XP Normal - The WinXP Home eddition and the Win2k was installed on Libretto 110ct and work perfectly for about 1.5 year 0. Boot from diskette 1 Simply format HDD in FAT for example ( 2Gb primary Dos partition and 2Gb extended Dos partition) (not transfere system files during format) 2 Copy to exended Dos partition th i386 directory 3 Start installation (boot from diskette and d:\i386\winnt.exe ) 4 Install OS to 1st primary partition (can be formated as NTFS or During install convert it ) 5 Satisfy - Original Message - From: QPW Olsthoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2003 4:17 AM Subject: [LIB] 2000 or XP Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 08:15:43 +0800 From: QPW Olsthoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 2000 or XP 1 can anyone tell me how feasable is it to run W2K or XP on a Libretto 110CT with a 4.3 G HDD (only about 50% full)? 2. Are the HDD 8.5 or 9.5 mm? quirinus olsthoorn ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] 2000 or XP
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 23:53:24 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] 2000 or XP yes. Xp needs only about 1gb, 2k about 500mb after you've installed it and an app or two. most are 9.5mm HDs; some maybe a thinner 8.45mm HD, but the L100/110 series was designed for the 9.5mm HDs. Thus, yes, you too can drop in the latest 80GB Hitachi 9.5mm HDs. = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] File Recovery Crisis
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 18:16:11 -0400 From: Karen L. Comer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: File Recovery Crisis Matthew Hanson wrote: Subject: !File recovery crisis! I wonder if anyone on the list might be able to help me. Seems our numbers are getting low though... I'm praying someone out there may have some suggestions. I've just had problem with Partition Magic destroying the file system on a desktop HDD with Win98 installed in one big FAT32 10GB partition. Im guessing the file system must have been badly corrupted. But theres one important file I'd like to retrieve from the root C:\ folder if possible. I had the same thing happen on an NTFS partition when the power failed while Partition Magic was trying to make some changes. I had excellent results with R-Studio from www.r-tt.com. Yes, I paid for it but it worked and retreived some important SQL Server database files for me. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] !File recovery crisis!
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 09:59:33 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] !File recovery crisis! If you do it manually, you will have to 1) have a copy of the FAT table in hand 2) manually find the first cluster/sector of the file in the FAT table. The FAT table entry for that cluster will have the next FAT cluster number of that file. continue until you get to the end. You will then add up/combine all of the clusters in the FAT chain you just followed into one file, hopefully, the original one. That's the boring way - worked for me, but it can take hours to follow all of the file chains. --- www.ontrack.com has another program that works pretty well. http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/amd/887/rescue/e_index.html is a free program that may help. if nothing else, ontrack.com can usually recover most files you've lost by accident as long as the sectors haven't been overwritten. A couple hundred dollars for their service, but they do do a good job. = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
[LIB] Now bad physical HDD blocks *%$@#!
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 07:22:57 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Now bad physical HDD blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many thanks to David and Karen for their tips on file recovery... Seems my life has become a daily process of going from one calamity to the next. Today while working on one of the partitions on a 46GB IBM Deskstar HDD in a desktop, the system locked up with the drive started making a series of scratchy clicks in the pattern of 4-4-3. I ran an old version of Norton Disk Doctor which found 4-5 bad blocks and marked them. But the partition was an extended logical D: at the end of the drive right after the C: primary partition, the only other partition on the drive. It took 6+ hours to scan and mark the approx. 6GB D: partition. I really needed that area of data to be a primary partition. So thinking DD had written the info on the bad blocks to a partition table somewhere, I ran Partition Magic (at this point having upgraded to 8.0) to convert the D: logical drive to a hidden primary drive for doing tests with various flavors of Win98. However after doing the conversion, and then attempting to restore a ghost image to the new primary partition, ghost failed about 3/4 of the way through the process complaining of problems writing to the drive. Im now running another 6+ hour surface scan with DD, and am wondering if Ill have better luck this time. Is there no way to retain information on just where bad blocks are living on HDDs for use later when deleting partitions, and configuring new ones? Ive never had problems with physical problems of a HDD before. Thanx, Matt PS: As I recall, there was a problem with these IBM DeskStar 75GXP drives. Wonder if IBM will replace it gratis 2+ years after the purchase. From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do it manually, you will have to 1) have a copy of the FAT table in hand 2) manually find the first cluster/sector of the file in the FAT table. The FAT table entry for that cluster will have the next FAT cluster number of that file. continue until you get to the end. You will then add up/combine all of the clusters in the FAT chain you just followed into one file, hopefully, the original one. That's the boring way - worked for me, but it can take hours to follow all of the file chains. --- www.ontrack.com has another program that works pretty well. http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/amd/887/rescue/e_index.html is a free program that may help. if nothing else, ontrack.com can usually recover most files you've lost by accident as long as the sectors haven't been overwritten. A couple hundred dollars for their service, but they do do a good job. = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Now bad physical HDD blocks *%$@#!
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:54:49 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Now bad physical HDD blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] I ran an old version of Norton Disk Doctor which found 4-5 bad blocks and marked them. But the partition was an extended logical D: at the end of the drive right after the C: primary partition, the only other partition on the drive. OK I'm presuming that should read But the partition that the bad blocks were found on was an extended logical D ...? Otherwise, I'm somewhat lost ... Right. It took 6+ hours to scan and mark the approx. 6GB D: partition. I really needed that area of data to be a primary partition. So thinking DD had written the info on the bad blocks to a partition table somewhere, I ran Partition Magic (at this point having upgraded to 8.0) to convert the D: logical drive to a hidden primary drive for doing tests with various flavors of Win98. *blink* *blink* OK I missed something ... why do you need it to be a hidden primary? I have a habit of keeping partitions with different copies of Windows OSs hidden from each other. I seem to recall warnings about doing this in order to prevent one getting into the other and playing havoc. I'm now running another 6+ hour surface scan with DD, and am wondering if I'll have better luck this time. I'd run IBM's drive fitness tester (search for DFT on the IBM site). That'll take a while to run, I can't remember if that has a data destructive mode in it though (if it does and you can afford to lose the data there, run that as well). I have it running a 2nd time as I write. It already found the bad data blocks the 1st run and then failed to repair the sectors and generated a failure log I can use to return the drive. Hmmm... the 2nd run through didn't report any problems even though I heard the drive scartching away at a few classic spots in the process. And the 1st error log that found problems was wriiten over with a blank one. :-/ Off for a 3rd try... then maybe another run at NDD marking the bad blocks. Without an error file reporting failure code of 0x70 representing a Defective Device, I won't be able to return it for a replacement for another to fail again... :-/ If that fails, it'll tell you if it is the dreaded 75GXP bug in which case the drives are pretty much a writeoff, the bad clusters will slowly keep increasing in number, taking random chunks of data with them (at least thats what happened in my experience) ... How 'bout herding the bad blocks into a hidden partition and not using it. Think the cancer will spread anyway? PS: As I recall, there was a problem with these IBM DeskStar 75GXP drives. Wonder if IBM will replace it gratis 2+ years after the purchase. replacements! Given that the 75GXP is long since discontinued, you might get lucky and get 120GXPs or better :-D Oooo... that'd be great! I've probably got about 9 months to go on the 3 year warranty. I'm running NDD after the 3rd run of DFT found no problems in 1/10th the time the 1st run took and about 1/5th of the time of the 2nd run for some reason. Will report back later Thanks for the tips Raymond! Ciao, Matt _ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Now bad physical HDD blocks *%$@#!
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:24:58 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Now bad physical HDD blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Malcolm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ghost will indeed ignore the bad blocks and attempt to write to them :( If it was a SCSI hard drive you had (or maybe some types of IDE drives?) you would not have this problem... From what I recall of the FAT filesystem, the bad block information is kept track of by DOS/Windows, not the hard drive. It`s part of the file system. When you use Ghost, Ghost will just try to restore the filesystem information from the partition it has an image in. It will not look at pre-existing bad block information. Perhaps there is a way to get it to do so but... err, I `ve never used Ghost so can`t help you there. Sorry. For some reason after my 2nd attempt at running NDD, ghost managed to restore the image. Nothing on this drive is any importance, so this is just an exercise in education. Running NDD a 3rd time on the restored partition revealed the bad blocks again. So yeah... it seems you're right about the info on where the bad blocks are located is in the OS files somewhere, not on the HDD. A SCSI drive does bad block revectoring i.e. there are a few hundred or few thousand blocks `reserved` for use when a block goes bad... details of the bad block are stored in the drive`s firmware, and it revectors attempts to access that bad block to one of the reserved blocks. IDE drives, as far as I know, don`t have such a feature. It would certainly be a worthwhile option I would think. Perhaps you might be able to get something working if you can either a) tell Ghost to use the pre-exisiting bad block information, or b) tell ghost to ignore bad blocks (if you can) and then deal with the problems once you`ve restored the image. I may just create a small hidden partition to isolate the area with the bad blocks that seem to be all in one spot... like creating a partition to deal with the Windows hibernation data. BTW have ordered a Libretto case from someone in Canada, including screen cable Maybe I will get the thing to work after all! or maybe I will find out the LCD is bust :( Speaking of which where can you source LCD screen replacements? :( Seems like Impact in Miami had the best prices on Libretto LCDs: http://www.impactcomputers.com/toshiba-libretto--70ct-parts.html But no one has posted anything about purchases from them to my knowledge. And at $349.95 it'd be cheaper to pick up a whole new 70 on Ebay. Good luck. Matt _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
Re: [LIB] Now bad physical HDD blocks *%$@#!
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 22:09:03 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Now bad physical HDD blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:27 AM 11/08/2003 -0700, you wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 07:22:57 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Now bad physical HDD blocks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many thanks to David and Karen for their tips on file recovery... Seems my life has become a daily process of going from one calamity to the next. Gee do I know that feeling ... heh ... there must be several Murphys in my computer ... and every now and again they decide to gang up on me. Today while working on one of the partitions on a 46GB IBM Deskstar HDD in a desktop, the system locked up with the drive started making a series of scratchy clicks in the pattern of 4-4-3. Yup been there done that, exact same problem - machine locks up with scratchy click noises then you start getting bad blocks. Yes I too have a pair of 75GXP's now which were the replacements when my initial pair of 75GXP's died (as in random bad clusters coming up, I knew for certain they'd died by running the DFT, see later). The curious thing is, the initial 2 drives have always been part of a RAID0 stripe set right from the day I pulled them out of their sealed wrappers ... when the whole set died, I tested both drives by themselves and both had died, I'm guessing at the same time ... looks like the cause must have been pretty non-random ... no prizes for guessing where I don't keep important data ... heh I ran an old version of Norton Disk Doctor which found 4-5 bad blocks and marked them. But the partition was an extended logical D: at the end of the drive right after the C: primary partition, the only other partition on the drive. OK I'm presuming that should read But the partition that the bad blocks were found on was an extended logical D ...? Otherwise, I'm somewhat lost ... It took 6+ hours to scan and mark the approx. 6GB D: partition. I really needed that area of data to be a primary partition. So thinking DD had written the info on the bad blocks to a partition table somewhere, I ran Partition Magic (at this point having upgraded to 8.0) to convert the D: logical drive to a hidden primary drive for doing tests with various flavors of Win98. *blink* *blink* OK I missed something ... why do you need it to be a hidden primary? However after doing the conversion, and then attempting to restore a ghost image to the new primary partition, ghost failed about 3/4 of the way through the process complaining of problems writing to the drive. Ya Ghost can be made to read from a dodgy drive but it'll almost always fall over when writing to a dodgy drive, it was really designed for recovering data and assisting in rollouts and the like in a corporate or mass-distribution sorta environment, in those environments, if a drive showed signs of going bust it'd get replaced immediately ... I'm now running another 6+ hour surface scan with DD, and am wondering if I'll have better luck this time. I'd run IBM's drive fitness tester (search for DFT on the IBM site). That'll take a while to run, I can't remember if that has a data destructive mode in it though (if it does and you can afford to lose the data there, run that as well). If that fails, it'll tell you if it is the dreaded 75GXP bug in which case the drives are pretty much a writeoff, the bad clusters will slowly keep increasing in number, taking random chunks of data with them (at least thats what happened in my experience) ... Is there no way to retain information on just where bad blocks are living on HDDs for use later when deleting partitions, and configuring new ones? I've never had problems with physical problems of a HDD before. Generally not if you're mucking around with partitions and almost always no when you're restoring images ... PS: As I recall, there was a problem with these IBM DeskStar 75GXP drives. Wonder if IBM will replace it gratis 2+ years after the purchase. Well the drives I got had 3 year factory warranties, I'm guessing that's standard with IBM drives of that era ... I ran the DFT, took screenshots (it's a create boot floppy and reboot to run sorta program, the screenshots were with a digicam) and showed them to the store I got the drives from, they sent the lot away, I twiddled my thumbs for 2 months before the replacements came. Good thing they shipped bigger drives back otherwise I would have complained! During this time customers in the US were getting over-the-counter replacements! Given that the 75GXP is long since discontinued, you might get lucky and get 120GXPs or better :-D Good luck! - Raymond P.S. I remember hearing that IBM was getting sued over this bug a while back ... anyone know what came out of that? --- /~\ | | Does fuzzy logic tickle?| | ___ | My HDD has no reverse. How
RE: [LIB] Screen fault
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 16:41:06 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Screen fault Hello, you're best bet may be to try eBayI bought an entire 70CT there for $50.00 plus shipping, and after installing a hard drive it works perfectly -- Ron White The Laptop Shoppe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - email -Original Message- From: Malcolm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:41:28 -0700 To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LIB] Screen fault Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:45:49 +0100 From: Malcolm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Screen fault Hello people, I have joined the Libretto club with a new 70CT that I got from a friend. However, it seems the display has a fault which is odd in nature. Symptoms is that the display is blurred horizontally, with moving 'streaks' around the edges. Sometimes, when it gets bad as well, it looks as if it misses out every second pixel... Strategically whacking the plastic around the bottom right hand side of the display can make it work to a greater or lesser extent, but I can't get rid of the problem completely. Eventually, you can get the screen to an almost usable state, but there is still some horizontal 'blurring' and fringes along the right hand side... Sometimes, the display can do very odd things... you can get vertical lines appearing (which disappear with more strategig whacking) and if you gently (of course! :) flex the entire screen, you get large, shifting, blocks all over the screen, which disappear with more strategic whacking. No problems with a monitor hooked up to the I/O Replicator, so the video subsystem itself seems OK. Disassembly of the screen assy shows that this is, of course, where the screen cable comes in to the screen assy. So, it sounds like a bad screen cable to me... Is this symptomatic of a bad screen cable, and if so, where could I obtain a replacement for a 70 CT and how much would it cost? Thanks, -Malcolm. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest ** ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
RE: [LIB] Boot Disk for Libretto 100
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:43:03 +0100 From: John Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Boot Disk for Libretto 100 Thanks. Can you just plug a 2.5 inch drive into an ide socket on a desktop computer, where will it get its power from? Thanks again for replying John Wilkinson -Original Message- From: Raymond [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 August 2003 15:29 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Boot Disk for Libretto 100 Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 22:31:39 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Boot Disk for Libretto 100 Hi John, Trying to boot from a clean DOS disk and load CD drives on the Libretto tends to be an exercise in frustration, helped in no part by the fact that when the libby boots off it's floppy disk drive, the PCMCIA slots go into a non-standard mode (normally you need card and socket services loaded to get PCMCIA devices working under DOS, obviously this won't be loaded if you're booting off the floppy drive so instead the BIOS uses some funny mode which confuses the heck out of most if not all other devices). A solution that may leave more hair on your head is to boot back into Windows with the CD-ROM drive drivers installed then copy the contents of the I386 folder from the CD onto the hard drive. Then run winnt32.exe (I think, it may be called something else, I can never remember! It should be the one with 32 on the end though) from the I386 folder from within windows to start the install (don't worry, it gives you the option of an independant install), then once Win2k is fully loaded you can delete the Win98 stuff. If you're low on disk space, I *think* you can get away with running the setup program from the CD without doing the first copy ... IIRC the setup program copies most, if not all of I386 to the hard drive anyway (as in if you do the first copy, you end up with 2 copies of almost all the files on your hard drive anyway). I've not tried it this second way before so I don't know if it causes any problems down the line ... not that it should ... If you're trying to do this from a clean drive, the easiest solution (after you partition in the libretto - check the archives for several rants on this topic!) is to take the hard drive out and put it into a desktop computer then copy the I386 directory across. Then, put it back into the libretto, boot off a DOS boot disk and run the winnt.exe (or whatever the setup file is called ... this time the one without the 32 on the end) setup file and proceed as before. Hope this helps! - Raymond At 07:19 AM 8/08/2003 -0700, you wrote: Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 15:17:16 +0100 From: John Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Boot Disk for Libretto 100 I am trying to upgrade my hard disk and install win 2000 professional. I bought on e bay a sony pcmcia cd drive model PCGA-CD5. I have installed dos 6.22 on the hard drive but I cannot get the CD drive to work. I have download from devicedriver.com a disk that says it will install the drive for DOS. I tested this on the old drive running WIN 98 and it did inded install the cd drive such that it was visible at the DOS prompt. However now there seems to be a problem with the new hard disk configuration that the Sony CD device driver cant find the drive. I think from the messages that the card sevices are not being started on the Libretto 100. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you John Wilkinson ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest ** --- /~\ | | Does fuzzy logic tickle?| | ___ | My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup? | | /__/ +---| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest
Re: [LIB] !File recovery crisis!
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 09:00:33 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] !File recovery crisis! From: Mikkel Breiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lost Found is free now, you can get it several places on the net along with the serial for it. I think the company that made it was PowerQuest and they focused on other programs and decided this program was still useful to some people, one of whom is you ;) Thanks for the tip Mikkel. I'll download a copy and take it out for a test drive. Matt _ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives ---TO UNSUBSCRIBE--- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST-- Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **
