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  #121  
Old June 24th 15, 10:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul
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Default 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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  #122  
Old June 24th 15, 10:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default 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





  #123  
Old June 25th 15, 12:30 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:

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.
  #124  
Old June 25th 15, 12:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default Unable to create a bootable rescue disk:

On Thu, 28 May 2015 12:50:57 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 28 May 2015 11:54:57 -0400, Paul wrote:

My only problem with USB flash sticks, is the general
dishonesty surrounding their performance level.


Also be aware that there are lots of weasels selling "fake" USB sticks
on places like Ebay.


Hmmm. This might relate to my post to Paul. It wasn't exactly a
no-name stick. It was Microcenter's brand, just a dollar cheaper than
Sandisk etc.

Should i spend the extra dollars. With SD cards, Microcenters are
better because they have the micro size with a larger adpater, but the
other brands are mostly the larger size. I ended up using the micro
size without the holder in an MP3 player.



They may report as 32g or some other big number but they are actually
much smaller, at least in usable capacity. Unfortunately you will not


I bought one of those once. Eventually it got smaller and smaller.
Well maybe it was the size it claimed when it started, but it was
getting smaller and smaller.

know this until you try to read back the data you loaded out there.
They seem to be writing fine but it is "write only storage" You will
not be able to read them.

There are a number of test programs available to verify these sticks
before you start to trust them.
"h2testw" is one of them


  #125  
Old June 25th 15, 01:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default 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
  #126  
Old June 25th 15, 01:41 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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
  #127  
Old June 25th 15, 07:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default 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
  #128  
Old June 25th 15, 07:44 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default 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
  #129  
Old June 25th 15, 08:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul
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Default 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
  #130  
Old June 25th 15, 08:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default 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
  #131  
Old June 25th 15, 08:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default 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
  #132  
Old June 25th 15, 09:12 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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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
  #133  
Old June 25th 15, 11:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default 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
  #134  
Old June 26th 15, 12:45 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default 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.


  #135  
Old June 26th 15, 12:48 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Default 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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