[antan]

It seems that when UBUSB.exe is run from a location and then run from another location, imdisk fails to start because it looks for the imdisk.sys file in the location where UBUSB.exe was run for the first time, which is stored in the registry path below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ImDisk\ImagePath

If the path is fixed then imdisk runs fine again.

[pcuser]

hmm, thanks for the information antan. This might help to figure out why some people get errors such as "Unable to start/stop/install/uninstall IMDisk service"...

I'll do some testing and report back, I hope you can too.

[antan]

Hi pcuser, could you help me out a bit?

I am trying to boot BartPE from a 1GB usb stick, on an old Dynabook Satellite J11 laptop (256MB ram).

I used an untouched XP SP3 cd to build the BartPE files (on a machine also running xp sp3), and I only made the following changes before building:

-added mozilla firefox plugin by Sherpya
-added mozilla firefox flash plugin by Sherpya
-enabled RpcSS needs to launch DComLaunchService first plugin
-added the laptop's network card driver

The laptop's bios doesn't support booting from any usb devices, so I ran UBUSB.exe (10.0.0.51) with it's default configuration to prepare the usb stick, and burned the produced NoUSB.iso to a cd-rw.

The cd booted to grub4dos but both of the boot options (normal and Memory mapped) gave the following error:

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Error 62: The number of heads must be specified. The '--heads=0' option tells map to choose a value(but maybe unsuitable) for you

So I added this --heads=0 to the map command, and then I got another error which told me to add --sectors-per-track=0 to the map command.

After adding those, I got the following message:

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Autodetect number-of-heads failed. Use default value 255

Autodetet sectors-per-track failed. Use default value 63

Then in the normal boot option, the following showed after the message above:

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Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x06

(the 0x06 number was different)

and the pc just froze after that.

And in the Memory mapped boot option, the following error showed after the autodetect failed message:

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Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition

Press any key to continue...

and pressing any key took me back to the grub4dos menu.

I tried all the 4 different file system formats (fat 32/16, lba/chs) available in UBUSB.exe, and in all cases there was the --heads=0 error and the --sectors-per-track=0 error. And after adding them, the Memory mapped boot option always ended up with error 17.

The fat 32 chs file system (normal boot) also ended up in a hang like the lba one.

But in the fat 16 chs file system (normal boot) there was this message:

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Remove disks or other media.
Press any key to restart

after the autodetect failed message.

And in the fat 16 lba file system (normal boot), it went past the message, and the BartPE loading bar finally showed but it ended up in a stop: 0x0000007B bsod.

Any ideas on how to fix this problem?

This post has been edited by antan: 31 July 2010 - 10:22 PM

[negatiiv]

FYI I tried to download http://www.ezpcfix.n...d4win/UBUSB.exe and with IE8 at work I get this error:

Unsafe Download - Security Warning
This download has been reported as unsafe
The file you are downloading has been reported to be unsafe. The download website contains links to viruses or other software that can hard your computer or reveal your personal information.
Unsafe downloads are blocked by your system administrator.

[rdsok]

negatiiv, on 05 August 2010 - 10:29 AM, said:

FYI I tried to download http://www.ezpcfix.n...d4win/UBUSB.exe and with IE8 at work I get this error:

Unsafe Download - Security Warning
This download has been reported as unsafe
The file you are downloading has been reported to be unsafe. The download website contains links to viruses or other software that can hard your computer or reveal your personal information.
Unsafe downloads are blocked by your system administrator.

Can you say... false positive...

Here are the results from VirusTotal which scanned the file with 42 different protection softwares ( including Microsoft's own ) and found no infections what-so-ever... http://www.virustota...308a-1281028605

[pcuser]

Thanks for the heads up, I won't try downloading it from your work then.

[rdsok]

pcuser, on 05 August 2010 - 12:11 PM, said:

Thanks for the heads up, I won't try downloading it from your work then.

It wasn't being reported from anything they were using at their work ... it was the Microsoft SmartScreen® Filter in IE8 that was doing it... the odd part is that the MS scan on VirusTotal actually shows it as a safe/uninfected file. As I mentioned earlier, it is a false positive... users should click on the report as safe option in the notice ( after they test it for themselves of course ) and not just make any assumption without something substantial to back it up.

False positives are a simple fact of life and just happen... but users have to realise that and just be thankful that their protection software errors on the side of caution at times but isn't always 100% correct.

[Plain]

Guys:
Is there any way to download the complete thread to Word? I`ve tried both downloading
and printing and only get the first page. I wanted to put it in Word, weed out
duplications and study the result to see why I keep getting the error 75. I work long hours
so can`t be here in a timely manner to reply and would like to be able to ask
coherent questions when I do post.

Thanks, Plain

[dirkgently42]

@Plain
Help Topic: Topic Options
http://www.ubcd4win.com/...lp&do=01&HID=15

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Download this topic - will show the topic in a number of different formats. 'Printer Friendly Version' will display a version of the topic that is suitable for printing out. 'Download HTML Version' will download a copy of the topic to your hard drive, and this can then be viewed in a web browser, without having to visit the board. 'Download Microsoft Word Version' will allow you to download the file to your hard drive and open it up in the popular word processing application, Microsoft Word, for viewing offline.

This post has been edited by dirkgently42: 17 August 2010 - 12:22 PM

[Plain]

@dirkgently42

All three methods give me only the first 20 pages. This must be a limitation of the forum.
I guess I`ll just have to cut and paste.

Sometimes life is just cruel... you know?

Plain

[Plain]

I do have one question though that I haven`t seen addressed.

When I hit the go button a message comes up telling me I`m
about to wipe out all data on disk. Then it gives me the information
I need to determine if it is the proper disk, which it always is,
and it gives me the letters of my two partitions.

If I choose "Don`t modify Partition Table" on the exe it is supposed
to leave the second partition alone, right?

Plain

[cdob]

Plain, on 17 August 2010 - 07:38 AM, said:

Is there any way to download the complete thread to Word?

Quick and dirty work arround

FOR /L %a IN (0,15,660) DO wget.exe "http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=11375&st=%a" -O ubusb_%a.htm

wget is integrated at UBCD4Win, search plugins.

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If I choose "Don`t modify Partition Table" on the exe it is supposed
to leave the second partition alone, right?

Sorry, no idea. Backup data and try.

[Plain]

Okay cdob Thanks,

I`ll try it and let ya`ll know how it turns out.

[anmg]

The utility is working very slowly.
first it copis image to usb, and begin compression of the image on the USB.
It would be much faster if it prepear everything on HDD and copies to USB upon all data is ready.

Utilty is already prepearing the drive during 3 hours and I can not see the finish.

This post has been edited by anmg: 13 September 2010 - 05:49 AM

[pcuser]

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Utilty is already prepearing the drive during 3 hours and I can not see the finish.

That's not normal. Can you please post your UBUSB.log file?