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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Mark Twain wrote:
Couldn't we just locate the file with Agent Ransack and delete it from there? Robert Remember, you're not trying to delete this file! You're trying to navigate to the folder with the setup.exe file. And the reason this is needed, is you need to pass parameters to setup.exe. If you just "run" setup.exe with no parameters, it won't do anything. It plays dumb. However, if you open a Command Prompt window, navigate to the folder, and give a magic command with "--uninstall" as a parameter, that turns setup.exe into an uninstaller program. And it not only uninstalls itself, it also deletes another 300MB of files for you. So go back to the other post, where I provided recipes, and try and match up your "Chromium" installation to the recipe. ******** Recipe for chromium (repeated) ******* Your path may be slightly different, as the string of digits is the "release" of the software. And you may have received a different version than I did. C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Chromium\Applicati on\45.0.2441.0\Installer chrome.7z 149,783,437 bytes setup.exe 935,424 bytes You will need to substitute Robert where it says username. I've done that in the following example. From a command prompt window, do cd /d C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Chromium\Application \45.0.2441.0\Installer dir setup.exe --install When you run the "dir" step, you should see two files. This is different than the Google Chrome case. The setup.exe accepts different options. The setup.exe command in this case, would not accept the extra parameters. It only accepted the one parameter, as shown. If the setup.exe runs properly, a small square dialog pops up, asking for confirmation you want to remove the program. After you're finished, this folder will still exist, but everything in the neighborhood will be removed. So about 300MB of files will be deleted. Only the empty folder remains (because you're CDed to it and the installer cannot remove it because the folder is "busy"). C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Chromium\Application \45.0.2441.0\Installer HTH, Paul |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
On Mon, 25 May 2015 19:14:01 -0700 (PDT), Mark Twain
wrote: I have a Dell Dimension 8200 (Seagate Barracuda 7200 HD 160GB) with XP, SP3, Spywareblaster, Avast, Malwarebytes, Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit and Windows Firewall. I'm trying to create a bootable rescue disk with Macrium but I seem to be doing something wrong. In the first place I had to download a newer version of Macrium. I clicked on the top left to create the bootable disk, but then not sure whether I should use PE 3.1 or PE 4.0 since I had to upgrade macrium. I selected PE 3.1 and then clicked rebuild and the following screens appeared: http://i62.tinypic.com/2ijk7xd.jpg http://i60.tinypic.com/oiy5vn.jpg http://i57.tinypic.com/xap4j7.jpg http://i57.tinypic.com/2gt2lcn.jpg http://i62.tinypic.com/ymh5e.jpg http://i58.tinypic.com/34sldlc.jpg If I selected PE 4.0 I get this: http://i62.tinypic.com/2n9l280.jpg Thoughts/suggestions? The best I can do is, Since your copying and pasting anyhow, from http://i62.tinypic.com/2ijk7xd.jpg could you only copy the middle, without the [IMG]s So it looks like http://i62.tinypic.com/2ijk7xd.jpg And we can just click on it Thanks, Robert |
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On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:54:57 -0400, Paul wrote:
Even if you buy a fancy USB flash stick, a USB3 one that runs at 200MB/sec, it will still fit and work on the USB 1.1 port on some older computer at 1MB/sec. I bought a friend an off-brand 8Gig flash stick for $5. That was 50 cents more because it was USB3. When I went to put a few empty directories on it, to sort of help him out, it took 3 to 5 minutes for each one, which should have taken 5 seconds each. I think the USB ports on the front of my 11 year old computer are USB 1.1. But even that shouldnt' take more than 5 seconds, right? Do you think mixing USB3 with 1.1 could cause something to slow down? I wound't ask until I had tested more, but yuour comment here is so closely related. I didn't try using the USB2 ports on the back of the cmoputer (which I guess I added with a card) and I gave him the stick, I use a mouse in one of the USB1.1 ports and it works just fine, of course. |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
micky wrote:
On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:54:57 -0400, Paul wrote: Even if you buy a fancy USB flash stick, a USB3 one that runs at 200MB/sec, it will still fit and work on the USB 1.1 port on some older computer at 1MB/sec. I bought a friend an off-brand 8Gig flash stick for $5. That was 50 cents more because it was USB3. When I went to put a few empty directories on it, to sort of help him out, it took 3 to 5 minutes for each one, which should have taken 5 seconds each. I think the USB ports on the front of my 11 year old computer are USB 1.1. But even that shouldnt' take more than 5 seconds, right? Do you think mixing USB3 with 1.1 could cause something to slow down? I wound't ask until I had tested more, but yuour comment here is so closely related. I didn't try using the USB2 ports on the back of the cmoputer (which I guess I added with a card) and I gave him the stick, I use a mouse in one of the USB1.1 ports and it works just fine, of course. USB 1.1 - Flash drive reads at ~1MB/sec USB 2.0 - Flash drive reads at ~30MB/sec USB 3.0 - Read rate limited by flash memory chips - Could easily get 200MB/sec without stress - Early high performance flash sticks used four channels and four flash chips to get those kinds of speeds If you plug a high performance USB3 stick into a USB 1.1 port, it still works, but it cannot exceed the ~1MB/sec speed limit. My Mac G4 has the USB 1.1 ports on it, and boy, is it slow :-( And by the way, there are some cheap USB3 sticks, that don't run at USB3 speeds at all. They do only 3MB/sec. They're not going to be finishing any operation in five seconds. The USB3 connector on those would be a joke. A bad joke. At the other extreme, is this. 200MB/sec. And it uses SLC chips. For the discerning enthusiast who has everything. (SLC chips have a higher write cycle count limit.) 32GB for $60. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA3CX20W3471 Notice there are no reviews for it. The thing about USB flash, is extreme price sensitivity. Which is "why we can't have anything nice". It means the market has dictated, that only inferior materials can go into USB flash chip construction. The company making that $60 stick, is going to have left-over stock. When I run that part number through my Canadian sellers, nobody stocks it. They know their customers only too well. Paul |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Understood,
I ran it (4) more time with variations http://i60.tinypic.com/1zoex6d.jpg but each time with the same result. The Administrator Account User is Rpbert or Lt Commander. The User Account is Rob I must be doing something wrong but I don't know what it is. Robert |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Mark Twain wrote:
Understood, I ran it (4) more time with variations http://i60.tinypic.com/1zoex6d.jpg but each time with the same result. The Administrator Account User is Rpbert or Lt Commander. The User Account is Rob I must be doing something wrong but I don't know what it is. Robert You already have a captured picture with the correct string in it. http://i60.tinypic.com/2ls7dzp.jpg Now you can go to Command Prompt and type this. cd /d C:\Documents and Settings\Lt. Commander\Local Settings\Application Data\Chromium\Application\45.0.2422.0\Installer You can even highlight the string of characters above, press control-C to copy it, go over to Command Prompt window, right click in the window and select Paste from the right-click menu. And the whole string can be pasted without having to type it, character by character. Now you can do: dir and verify the chrome.7z and setup.exe files are present. Then try setup.exe --uninstall which is the apparent option for removing Chromium installations. Paul |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
It wouldn't let me copy the string so I typed it
and found my mistake. I kept leaving the period off of Lt. Shhhesh Anyways,.. it seemed to work: http://i62.tinypic.com/icl8ja.jpg http://i61.tinypic.com/2z6t35e.jpg http://i57.tinypic.com/351d6vs.jpg The 8200 now has been upgraded with (4) 2.0 ports, I have a ISO rescue disk and a backup for it and the 8500. The VLC player works quite well,.. I'm very happy with the Patriot USB flash and the Verbatium cd's. Many thanks for all your time, good help,great links and patience walking me through all of this and explaining how things work. Robert |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Mark Twain wrote:
It wouldn't let me copy the string so I typed it and found my mistake. I kept leaving the period off of Lt. Shhhesh Anyways,.. it seemed to work: http://i62.tinypic.com/icl8ja.jpg http://i61.tinypic.com/2z6t35e.jpg http://i57.tinypic.com/351d6vs.jpg The 8200 now has been upgraded with (4) 2.0 ports, I have a ISO rescue disk and a backup for it and the 8500. The VLC player works quite well,.. I'm very happy with the Patriot USB flash and the Verbatium cd's. Many thanks for all your time, good help,great links and patience walking me through all of this and explaining how things work. Robert And congratulations on giving Chromium the boot. I wish I could figure out how you got that, because it's a lot harder to get "Chromium" on the machine, than "Chrome". Google pays $1 for each copy of Chrome someone puts on the computers of users. But I didn't think there was any promotional campaign for Chromium. I even had a slight bit of trouble getting my copy for testing. Paul |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Maybe I got it through one of
those bad downloads that infected me awhile back? Sometimes Avast will give me pop-ups to 'clean my system' or to make it 'run faster' but I'm always leery of things like that now. If I see an update like for Java I go to my installed programs or I'll ask you if I'm not sure about something. In passing, one thing that came up maybe a week or more ago that doesn't go away on the 8500 is an issue in the Action center. I've already gone in and set my setting's more than once but it keeps coming back. http://i57.tinypic.com/14j9ue1.jpg http://i60.tinypic.com/n6c2fl.jpg Thanks Robert |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Mark Twain wrote:
In passing, one thing that came up maybe a week or more ago that doesn't go away on the 8500 is an issue in the Action center. I've already gone in and set my setting's more than once but it keeps coming back. http://i57.tinypic.com/14j9ue1.jpg http://i60.tinypic.com/n6c2fl.jpg Thanks Robert I must be missing something, because it looks like you've given it practically everything it wants. I usually set mine to allow me to initiate a Windows Update run. Mainly because I know it's going to take a while. But I'm a lazy guy, and sometimes months go by before I click the button. Some of the WU process runs more than once a day, so it's pretty pesky in terms of wasting computer resources. Sorry I can't be of more help there. I just don't see why it is unhappy. It's supposed to check with you, before it installs them. And that seems normal enough. If you look in Windows Update, at the Update History, do you see anything which is out of the ordinary there ? As near as I can remember, once I've set mine to be purely manual, I don't remember seeing any nags to change to some other setting. Paul |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
I just did an update yesterday and (3) optional
System 64 updates. As you can see I have it set to manual as well but I wanted to show you my settings in case you saw anything amiss. I don't know why it has the solve PC issues (1) message there? I just thought I would mention it. Thanks, Robert |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
Once again, thanks for all your good
help and advice. You give great links and explain everything so it not only helps me but others who may be following or someone who may have a similar problem later on. Robert |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 02:42:53 -0400, Paul wrote:
You can even highlight the string of characters above, press control-C to copy it, go over to Command Prompt window, right click in the window Who knew? I"ve been using the upper left-hand corner, which has taken me more time. Thanks. and select Paste from the right-click menu. And the whole string can be pasted without having to type it, character by character. |
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Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 15:00:07 -0400, Paul wrote:
I wish I could figure out how you got that, because it's a lot harder to get "Chromium" on the machine, than "Chrome". Google pays $1 for each copy of Chrome someone puts on the computers of users. But I didn't think there was any promotional campaign for Chromium. I even had I came into this thread in the middle and I thought you were kidding when you called it Chromium. LIke calling your son Jerry Gerard, when you're mad at him. a slight bit of trouble getting my copy for testing. |
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