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  #16  
Old November 10th 17, 09:18 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

wrote:
On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:46:05 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

Thanks for that. Incidentally, xpinfo doesn't work with OEM (or VLK).
[]
By the way, this is where you can get Ghost 2003:

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...a3653cce1c3f14
7b3d4/GHOST_BOOTx.zip

Thanks for that too. I've downloaded both.


It looks like you are saying that you downloaded the Ghost zipfile. Is
that correct?
It is refusing to download for me. It starts downloading and fails after
about 10 seconds, saying "source could not be read".

Maybe this has something to do with my slow dialup internet, but it dont
even try. I have tried to DL this thing at least 10 times, used
different browsers too.
Another browser said:
"Does not appear to be a valid archive"

The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
usually DL files of that size without problems.

This does look to be thge best way to clone these drives. I dont even
want to attempt to do it with a CD, because I've been thru trying to
configure CD drives and Hard drives on the same cable, and it naver
worked. Not to mention I only have connectors for TWO IDEs and would
need THREE. On top of that, I will do anything to avoid burning CDs.
Thats generally another nightmare, especially if they need to be
bootable.

I'll have to drive to town and see if I can download it at a WIFI, but
it sure seems like the file is borked, and I'm not willing to drive 10
miles for nothing.



Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?

wget http://www.domain.com/file.zip

That puts "file.zip" in your current working directory
plus it give you a progress bar to watch the download.

*******

The one in here is fairly small. If I get the gnuwin32 one,
that has bigger files for some reason.

2,265,402 bytes (this is the WinXP windows update fetcher package)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140605...offline921.zip

Inside the ZIP file, in wsusoffline\bin\ you will find
wget.exe 233984 bytes.

You can then try that on the annoying NGINX server
at dslreports.

Paul
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  #17  
Old November 10th 17, 12:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 03:18:09 -0500, Paul wrote:



The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
usually DL files of that size without problems.

This does look to be thge best way to clone these drives. I dont even
want to attempt to do it with a CD, because I've been thru trying to
configure CD drives and Hard drives on the same cable, and it naver
worked. Not to mention I only have connectors for TWO IDEs and would
need THREE. On top of that, I will do anything to avoid burning CDs.
Thats generally another nightmare, especially if they need to be
bootable.

I'll have to drive to town and see if I can download it at a WIFI, but
it sure seems like the file is borked, and I'm not willing to drive 10
miles for nothing.



Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?

wget http://www.domain.com/file.zip

This got 404 Error
The page you requested no longer exists or is temporarily unavailable.

That puts "file.zip" in your current working directory
plus it give you a progress bar to watch the download.

*******

The one in here is fairly small. If I get the gnuwin32 one,
that has bigger files for some reason.

2,265,402 bytes (this is the WinXP windows update fetcher package)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140605...offline921.zip

And this thing quit early too, and left me with a useless 300K file.

Inside the ZIP file, in wsusoffline\bin\ you will find
wget.exe 233984 bytes.

You can then try that on the annoying NGINX server
at dslreports.

Paul


  #18  
Old November 10th 17, 09:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

wrote:
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 03:18:09 -0500, Paul wrote:


The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
usually DL files of that size without problems.

This does look to be thge best way to clone these drives. I dont even
want to attempt to do it with a CD, because I've been thru trying to
configure CD drives and Hard drives on the same cable, and it naver
worked. Not to mention I only have connectors for TWO IDEs and would
need THREE. On top of that, I will do anything to avoid burning CDs.
Thats generally another nightmare, especially if they need to be
bootable.

I'll have to drive to town and see if I can download it at a WIFI, but
it sure seems like the file is borked, and I'm not willing to drive 10
miles for nothing.


Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?

wget
http://www.domain.com/file.zip

This got 404 Error
The page you requested no longer exists or is temporarily unavailable.

That puts "file.zip" in your current working directory
plus it give you a progress bar to watch the download.

*******

The one in here is fairly small. If I get the gnuwin32 one,
that has bigger files for some reason.

2,265,402 bytes (this is the WinXP windows update fetcher package)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140605...offline921.zip

And this thing quit early too, and left me with a useless 300K file.

Inside the ZIP file, in wsusoffline\bin\ you will find
wget.exe 233984 bytes.

You can then try that on the annoying NGINX server
at dslreports.

Paul



The first command was an example of how to use wget.

I don't know the original source of the 233984 byte version
of wget.exe. It appears my copy came from a wsusoffline download.
One "official" source, the file is larger than that by quite
a bit.

WGET is just an alternative to using a browser for fetching
an HTTP protocol download. It even got its own article
in Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget

"Robustness

Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable
network connections. If a download does not complete due
to a network problem, Wget will automatically try to continue
the download from where it left off, and repeat this until
the whole file has been retrieved. It was one of the first
clients to make use of the then-new "Range" HTTP header to
support this feature.
"

As for the download itself, I didn't have a problem fetching
it here with a browser. Or with wget. This is a picture
of the command prompt window while wget runs. (Picture looks
similar to the Wikipedia article, so don't waste your time.)

https://s1.postimg.org/9hsctv95xr/wget_in_action.gif

Some browsers have retry capability, which means if
a file transfer stops (due to dialup disease), you
try the transfer again, and the original file is
just added to, until the transfer is complete. The
server has to support the protocol. It amounts to
supporting a "block range" option, and may be
part of supporting the opening of multiple IP connections
to download a file.

*******

I analyzed that file. 7ZIP is having trouble with it.
The Windows ZIP built-in says the file is corrupted.

The Compressed (zipped) Folder is invalid or corrupted

I could tell by looking at the end of the file with a
hex editor, that something wasn't quite right. 7ZIP reports

Headers Error: GHOST_BOOTx.IMA

There are two 1440K .ima entries in there, corresponding
to two floppy diskette images. The first .ima extracts OK with
7ZIP, but the second doesn't. It's possible,
when you run the "GHOST_BOOTx.exe" file, that it will
do a better job. I don't know if I have two actual
blank floppies to use for that :-)

Anyway, don't be surprised if this exercise is nothing
but a PITA. That's what the analysis says so far, but I
don't want to spoil your fun. Good luck, Mr.Philips.
This tape will self-destruct in five seconds...

Paul
  #19  
Old November 11th 17, 04:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

Ghost 2003:

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...HOST_BOOTx.zip

Paul wrote:

It looks like you are saying that you downloaded the Ghost zipfile. Is
that correct? It is refusing to download for me. It starts downloading
and fails after about 10 seconds, saying "source could not be read".

The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
usually DL files of that size without problems.


The file is 1310 kbytes.

On a 56kbit dial-up connection, your throughput should be 5.5 kbyte/sec.

1310 / 5.5 = 238 seconds. That's about 4 minutes. Shouldn't take you
1/2 hour to download a 1.3 megabyte file.

Firefox 2.0.0.20 can download the above zip file with no problem.

Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?


Odd thing I'm finding about wget lately. I've got 2 versions of it on
my win-98 computer. Both of them are giving me this error:

idn_decode failed (9): 'System iconv failed'

This is not a host-ip DNS resolution failure, and this has nothing to do
with using wget to retrieve an https url.

wget used to work, but I haven't used it in a while.
  #20  
Old November 11th 17, 05:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

Some Guy wrote:
Ghost 2003:

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...HOST_BOOTx.zip


Paul wrote:

It looks like you are saying that you downloaded the Ghost zipfile. Is
that correct? It is refusing to download for me. It starts
downloading and fails after about 10 seconds, saying "source could
not be read".

The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
usually DL files of that size without problems.


The file is 1310 kbytes.

On a 56kbit dial-up connection, your throughput should be 5.5 kbyte/sec.

1310 / 5.5 = 238 seconds. That's about 4 minutes. Shouldn't take you
1/2 hour to download a 1.3 megabyte file.

Firefox 2.0.0.20 can download the above zip file with no problem.

Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?


Odd thing I'm finding about wget lately. I've got 2 versions of it on
my win-98 computer. Both of them are giving me this error:

idn_decode failed (9): 'System iconv failed'

This is not a host-ip DNS resolution failure, and this has nothing to do
with using wget to retrieve an https url.

wget used to work, but I haven't used it in a while.


When you unpack the above GHOST_BOOTx.zip file, are
you finding it corrupted ? There seems to be a problem
unpacking the second floppy image. The file might have
been truncated.

The copy of wget in the wsusoffline download, doesn't
use a separate iconv.dll like the gnuwin32 version
does. You might test that and see if you get a similar
error. For some reason, the wsusoffline version is
a lot smaller than the current gnuwin32 downloads
one. And I can't tell the history of these things,
because the files don't contain metadata to mark them.

There's nothing magic about the wget, and this is just
an experiment to see if another transfer agent will
give any different kind of result.

Paul
  #21  
Old November 11th 17, 10:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:17:05 -0500, Some Guy wrote:

Ghost 2003:

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...HOST_BOOTx.zip

Paul wrote:

It looks like you are saying that you downloaded the Ghost zipfile. Is
that correct? It is refusing to download for me. It starts downloading
and fails after about 10 seconds, saying "source could not be read".

The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
usually DL files of that size without problems.


The file is 1310 kbytes.

On a 56kbit dial-up connection, your throughput should be 5.5 kbyte/sec.

1310 / 5.5 = 238 seconds. That's about 4 minutes. Shouldn't take you
1/2 hour to download a 1.3 megabyte file.

Firefox 2.0.0.20 can download the above zip file with no problem.

Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?


Odd thing I'm finding about wget lately. I've got 2 versions of it on
my win-98 computer. Both of them are giving me this error:

idn_decode failed (9): 'System iconv failed'

This is not a host-ip DNS resolution failure, and this has nothing to do
with using wget to retrieve an https url.

wget used to work, but I haven't used it in a while.


I never connect at 56k. If I get 44K I'm lucky. Most of the time I get
around 30K. There is about one mile of old copper cable coming to my
house from the pedestal along the road, and the wire coming ot the
pedestal is probably also real old. When you live in a rural area, these
old wires were only meant to be used for voice telephone.

I did get that Ghost zipfile though. I just took my laptop to a WIFI and
it took seconds. Now that I got it, I am wondering what to do with it.
Inside is a .EXE file. Do I need to run that and make a floppy, or what?
I hesitate to run stuff like that, not knowing what to expect.

At the WIFI I looked up wget. After getting thru all the bogus websites
trying ot get me to download some other ****, I did find a legitimate
copy of it and downloaded it. However, in the process I ran across a few
forums that said that it no longer works, and even some website that
said to download some other file to correct the errors it's giving. That
pretty much threw up a red flag as far as even trying it.


  #22  
Old November 11th 17, 10:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:40:42 -0500, Paul wrote:

Some Guy wrote:
Ghost 2003:

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...HOST_BOOTx.zip


Paul wrote:

It looks like you are saying that you downloaded the Ghost zipfile. Is
that correct? It is refusing to download for me. It starts
downloading and fails after about 10 seconds, saying "source could
not be read".

The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
usually DL files of that size without problems.


The file is 1310 kbytes.

On a 56kbit dial-up connection, your throughput should be 5.5 kbyte/sec.

1310 / 5.5 = 238 seconds. That's about 4 minutes. Shouldn't take you
1/2 hour to download a 1.3 megabyte file.

Firefox 2.0.0.20 can download the above zip file with no problem.

Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?


Odd thing I'm finding about wget lately. I've got 2 versions of it on
my win-98 computer. Both of them are giving me this error:

idn_decode failed (9): 'System iconv failed'

This is not a host-ip DNS resolution failure, and this has nothing to do
with using wget to retrieve an https url.

wget used to work, but I haven't used it in a while.


When you unpack the above GHOST_BOOTx.zip file, are
you finding it corrupted ? There seems to be a problem
unpacking the second floppy image. The file might have
been truncated.

The copy of wget in the wsusoffline download, doesn't
use a separate iconv.dll like the gnuwin32 version
does. You might test that and see if you get a similar
error. For some reason, the wsusoffline version is
a lot smaller than the current gnuwin32 downloads
one. And I can't tell the history of these things,
because the files don't contain metadata to mark them.

There's nothing magic about the wget, and this is just
an experiment to see if another transfer agent will
give any different kind of result.

Paul


I just bought Norton Ghost 2003 on ebay for $10 shipped. Complete with
the manual and box. I'm sure all this crap online is corrupted
intentionally because it's pirated commercial software, even if it is
nearly abandoned.

Back in the 90s, a person could get any commercial software on the web,
but that is no longer the case. I dont even try to get that stuff
anymore. THen again, I dont need any software. I have everything I need.
But this Ghost is one thing I always wanted and needed. Now I will have
a legal copy. I bought Partition Magic on ebay too and that gets used
very often.

I have no intention of ever using any Windows newer than XP anyhow. I
use my XP and my Win98 and that is all I will ever need. By the time XP
no longer connects to the internet, I wont be using the internet,
because the entire internet is going to be Facebook, and I will require
someone to pay me at least $250,000 before I even get a FB account. And
I dont expect anyone to pay me....


  #23  
Old November 12th 17, 02:23 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Paul wrote:

When you unpack the above GHOST_BOOTx.zip file, are
you finding it corrupted ? There seems to be a problem
unpacking the second floppy image. The file might have
been truncated.


The page where I got the ghost link from is this:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

The first post gives a direct link to the file. If you click on the
link and download it, you get a file with 1,340,942 bytes and it will
have the current (real-time) date and time.

The direct link is this (this is what I posted earlier in this thread):

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...HOST_BOOTx.zip

I now see that if you try to download this file using wget, or by
directly entering it into a browser, you get a file with 1,339,806
bytes, and it has a date of 1/11/2004 (at least that's what I'm seeing).
And it won't unpack.

It might be that the dslreports server is not giving the entire file
unless your http file request includes this as the referrer url:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

wget won't give any referrer URL (unless you specifiy one on the command
line, assuming wget has that ability).

So in other words, you need to access this page using any browser:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

And then click on the ghost download link in the first post.


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Old November 12th 17, 05:29 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 20:23:32 -0500, Some Guy wrote:

Paul wrote:

When you unpack the above GHOST_BOOTx.zip file, are
you finding it corrupted ? There seems to be a problem
unpacking the second floppy image. The file might have
been truncated.


The page where I got the ghost link from is this:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

The first post gives a direct link to the file. If you click on the
link and download it, you get a file with 1,340,942 bytes and it will
have the current (real-time) date and time.

The direct link is this (this is what I posted earlier in this thread):

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...HOST_BOOTx.zip

I now see that if you try to download this file using wget, or by
directly entering it into a browser, you get a file with 1,339,806
bytes, and it has a date of 1/11/2004 (at least that's what I'm seeing).
And it won't unpack.

It might be that the dslreports server is not giving the entire file
unless your http file request includes this as the referrer url:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

wget won't give any referrer URL (unless you specifiy one on the command
line, assuming wget has that ability).

So in other words, you need to access this page using any browser:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

And then click on the ghost download link in the first post.


Good grief....
If it's that complicated and confusing, I'm glad I spent the $10 to buy
it. By the time I got this thing downloaded I would have spent at least
$10 for headache medication......

Actually I think I did get a usable download, at least the zipfile
opens, but after I open it, I had no clue what to do with the .EXE
inside of it.

I'm hoping the CD in my purchased copy will allow me to create a
bootable floppy. I'll be doing that using a different computer which has
a CD drive, and a USB floppy drive.

I cant run a CD drive on the computer I intend to use to clone the hard
drives. I need both IDE connectors for drives. There wont be one
available for a CD drive.

I'm sure one I get this in the mail, I will figure it out from the
manual included with it.



  #26  
Old November 12th 17, 08:22 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

Some Guy wrote:
Paul wrote:

When you unpack the above GHOST_BOOTx.zip file, are
you finding it corrupted ? There seems to be a problem
unpacking the second floppy image. The file might have
been truncated.


The page where I got the ghost link from is this:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

The first post gives a direct link to the file. If you click on the
link and download it, you get a file with 1,340,942 bytes and it will
have the current (real-time) date and time.

The direct link is this (this is what I posted earlier in this thread):

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...HOST_BOOTx.zip


I now see that if you try to download this file using wget, or by
directly entering it into a browser, you get a file with 1,339,806
bytes, and it has a date of 1/11/2004 (at least that's what I'm seeing).
And it won't unpack.

It might be that the dslreports server is not giving the entire file
unless your http file request includes this as the referrer url:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

wget won't give any referrer URL (unless you specifiy one on the command
line, assuming wget has that ability).

So in other words, you need to access this page using any browser:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

And then click on the ghost download link in the first post.


In this example, there's no referer, and the correct size results.
An attempt to do this with WGET on the same platform, gives
the "smaller" (1,339,806 bytes) file.

paul@mint ~ $ http GET http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...HOST_BOOTx.zip --output out.zip
paul@mint ~ $ ls -al
total 1320
-rw-r--r-- 1 paul paul 1340942 Nov 12 01:53 out.zip
paul@mint ~ $

I compared the two files, and there is a weirdness at
around every ~32KB of data in the ZIP. Almost as if
maybe the file was being re-encoded on the fly
by the NGINX server.

And logically, even though the files are different
sizes, when unpacked, they have the same GHOST_BOOTx.exe
(1,397,111 bytes) inside the ZIP file. Whatever horrid
mutilation is happening, it hasn't affected the payload.
Other than that, I haven't been able to figure out
what the crap at the beginning and the end of the file
means. It's an encapsulation, but what is it ?

*******

Using either the proper sized or the smaller ZIP,
you can extract the EXE inside it.

The 1,397,111 byte GHOST_BOOTx.exe is a self extracting ZIP.

At hex offset 0x2121C of that EXE, you will find
50 4B 03 04 (PK/3/4). Which is the start of the archive.
That means everything before that address, is the SFX
program for self-extraction (on run).

Near the end of the EXE file, in the "trailer" area, at
0x155142 you will find that address value in reverse
order "1C 12 02".

OK, now if you remove the SFX portion, the executable
at the beginning of the file, it's still a ZIP. What
I did, was remove everything from 0x0 up to 0x2121C.
The result is a file that now starts with 50 4B 03 04 (PK/3/4).
You want to have the PK from 0x2121C kept in the file.

In the trailer area, where it says "1C 12 02",
replace that with "00 00 00". That's because, with
the SFX removed from the beginning, the archive
now starts at zero, instead of starting at
0x2121C. If you don't correct the offset stored in
the trailer, that causes another error.

Save the file. Now, when you feed that to a modern
ZIP utility, it sees *one* IMA file (floppy diskette)
inside, with good CRC.

paul@mint ~ $ unzip -t snip3.bin
Archive: snip3.bin
testing: GHOST_BOOTx.IMA OK
No errors detected in compressed data of snip3.bin.
paul@mint ~ $ file snip3.bin
snip3.bin: Zip archive data, at least v1.0 to extract
paul@mint ~ $

The same file from 7ZIP in Windows, shows only one IMA
and no header errors.

L:\snip3.bin\
size packed modified CRC
GHOST_BOOTx.IMA 1474560 1261251 2003-01-10 22:06 5D725E63

And that CRC value, you can see it in reverse order
down near the end of the file. Before the trailer starts.

*******

As for the floppy itself, it doesn't have a copy of Ghost on it.

But, a puzzle for you. When you "winimage" something, it works
at the sector level. Notice that the floppy must have been
filled with relatively random data, because the compressed
archive saved hardly any space at all. That means there
*could* be deleted files, sitting on the floppy. A good
technician, would have zeroed the white space on the floppy,
before winimaging, as this would make the archive significantly
smaller. By winimaging the raw floppy, without doing any
hygiene, means there could be "interesting things" on there.
And maybe, that's what the person who posted that, had in
mind :-) You never know. I've had enough fun for now.

Paul
  #27  
Old November 12th 17, 09:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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wrote:
On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 20:23:32 -0500, Some Guy wrote:

Paul wrote:

When you unpack the above GHOST_BOOTx.zip file, are
you finding it corrupted ? There seems to be a problem
unpacking the second floppy image. The file might have
been truncated.

The page where I got the ghost link from is this:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

The first post gives a direct link to the file. If you click on the
link and download it, you get a file with 1,340,942 bytes and it will
have the current (real-time) date and time.

The direct link is this (this is what I posted earlier in this thread):

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...HOST_BOOTx.zip

I now see that if you try to download this file using wget, or by
directly entering it into a browser, you get a file with 1,339,806
bytes, and it has a date of 1/11/2004 (at least that's what I'm seeing).
And it won't unpack.

It might be that the dslreports server is not giving the entire file
unless your http file request includes this as the referrer url:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

wget won't give any referrer URL (unless you specifiy one on the command
line, assuming wget has that ability).

So in other words, you need to access this page using any browser:

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r562...ppy-for-BootCD

And then click on the ghost download link in the first post.


Good grief....
If it's that complicated and confusing, I'm glad I spent the $10 to buy
it. By the time I got this thing downloaded I would have spent at least
$10 for headache medication......

Actually I think I did get a usable download, at least the zipfile
opens, but after I open it, I had no clue what to do with the .EXE
inside of it.

I'm hoping the CD in my purchased copy will allow me to create a
bootable floppy. I'll be doing that using a different computer which has
a CD drive, and a USB floppy drive.

I cant run a CD drive on the computer I intend to use to clone the hard
drives. I need both IDE connectors for drives. There wont be one
available for a CD drive.

I'm sure one I get this in the mail, I will figure it out from the
manual included with it.


For the EXE, double-click it, stick a blank floppy in the
floppy drive, and there should be a winimage screen...

https://s8.postimg.org/7xor5c1id/click_that_EXE.gif

There might have been files on the floppy that were
deleted, just before the diskette was winimaged. In which
case, after the floppy is written, you could run recuva
or photorec or stuff of that sort, and see what "old"
files were on that floppy. Just for fun of course.
I don't really know what's on there.

Paul
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Old November 12th 17, 09:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

Paul wrote:

For the EXE, double-click it, stick a blank floppy in the
floppy drive, and there should be a winimage screen...

https://s8.postimg.org/7xor5c1id/click_that_EXE.gif

There might have been files on the floppy that were
deleted, just before the diskette was winimaged. In which
case, after the floppy is written, you could run recuva
or photorec or stuff of that sort, and see what "old"
files were on that floppy. Just for fun of course.
I don't really know what's on there.

Paul


Oh, my :-) Do I know human nature, or what.

https://s8.postimg.org/uu1l1wekl/party_time.gif

Paul
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Old November 12th 17, 11:34 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 02:22:18 -0500, Paul wrote:


I compared the two files, and there is a weirdness at
around every ~32KB of data in the ZIP. Almost as if
maybe the file was being re-encoded on the fly
by the NGINX server.


Maybe you need to run PKZIPFIX on it.
That has always been handy. None of the Windows ZIP programs have that
sort of thing.....

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Old November 12th 17, 11:53 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 03:06:11 -0500, Paul wrote:


For the EXE, double-click it, stick a blank floppy in the
floppy drive, and there should be a winimage screen...

https://s8.postimg.org/7xor5c1id/click_that_EXE.gif


Ok, I clicked on it on my lastop and I got that same view. There is no
floppy drive on that laptop though. I do have an external USB floppy
drive, I wonder if that will work? (First I got to find that thing).

Actually the only computer that has a floppy drive is my Windows 98
machine. I hope this EXE will run on Win98.

I could also plug a floppy drive into my XP desktop. It has the
connector for a floppy on the motherboard. Come to think of it, that
tower has space to install a floppy drive. I should just put one in
there permanently.

I can see one problem though. That tower dont have the mini-molex plug
that the floppy drive needs. Looks like another trip to ebay is needed.
(What is the correct name for that plug adaptor?)

 




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