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rlpowell, on 25 December 2009 - 01:43 AM, said:

what about a system of creating these plugins on the fly from a vista installation?

dirkgently42, on 22 December 2009 - 12:34 AM, said:

Hi, i'm that bot.

anyway, got google chrome from portableapps.com running off the hard drive. It started up extremely quickly, considering this was on a 900 mhz p3 laptop. But I guess on my desktop machine having chrome load the previous sessions tabs, plus all the onebox history and malware url lookups, etc............. bogs things down.

here's a screen shot of it running:



or a direct link,

http://img189.images... echromeubcd.png

pcuser, on Jan 10 2009, 06:33 PM, said:

I retract what I said about Western Digital.

I ran western digital datalifeguard diagnostics on the drive, and there were no smart errors. I even did chkdsk /r.

Partition Magic 8.0 showed partition error #108 (Partition doesn't end at end of cylinder), although it should be noted that PM didn't support XP until 8.01, but otoh, it was lucky for me, as it pointed out this error, whereas 8.01 may not have. Since I've had good experiences with Acronis Disk Director in the past in cases where PartitionMagic had errors/failed/gave up, I resized each partition in Acronis DD to be smaller by leaving space after both. After rebooting, the system finally booted up and the (superfluous but waiting to be run) repair install started. Also the second partition was storing .gho images from the ghost backup trial version that comes preinstalled on many computers.

I hope this illustrates the partition before and after:
|----59.97GB----------||-- --20GB------|EndOfDisk

|----59.94GB---------| |----19.95GB-- |EndOfDisk

And sorry for being so verbose but I didn't find this solution anywhere on the internet, even on Microsoft's site.

You know, someone should put all the intelligence of us pc technicians into a single, quick diagnosis program, and make a lot of money. Is there such a program? It would save me some headaches.

You could probably get a similar result by using the GNU Parted LiveCD, YMMV.

Looks like a neat project, Nuno.

I recently saw some floppy disk image that boots from a standard floppy, and then can boot from a usb, and possibly, from an optical drive. I can't remember the name, but it would have solved the problem of the original poster pretty easily. Was it GNU Grub?

Does a win2k ubcd4win boot faster?

If I built a windows 2000 ubcd4win cd would the kernel support the newer ntfs in XP and later?