On 2/10/2013 5:48 PM, Robert Baer wrote:
mike wrote:
On 2/8/2013 3:25 PM, Robert Baer wrote:
mike wrote:
On 2/7/2013 1:37 AM, Robert Baer wrote:
Problems that i need help in solving:

1) Installed without any whimper, plays its "music" when booting.
Speaker icon has an "X", updated driver, no joy. Click on "X" and get
"one or more Audio Services is not running".
BUT.
According to the Computer Services list, there is NOTHING even
remotely
like that!!
Nice BS.

2) Initially, could find a driver for: Multimedia Video Controller:
PCI
bus 1,device 6, Function 0.
It is a video capture card, and it works (!). Tried installing an
outdated driver (!! accepted!!), and the Device Manager is happy
now or
that.

3) In selecting the folder Documents & Settings, i get Access Denied.
How in the hell do i fix that?
Better yet, fix that problem for ALL other folders and files that may
have the same "restriction" in one step (not each one individually
as i
may or may not find them)?
OH.
While i leave that message box open, i see a green bar slowly
advancing..What the
heck is that??

4) Access Denied also found at ..\Program Data\Documents, ..\Program
Data\Desktop, and other (but not all) sub-folders.
Again how can i fix?

I hate Win7 in that it is so tight and secretive.
But newer programs "demand" it.


What I did was take ownership of everything.

https://www.google.com/search?as_q=w...pe=&as_rights=







File sharing can also be a problem with other operating systems and
smart phones.

To share files with axim and linux, have to edit the registry
Please try the following in Windows 7:

Open Registry Editor, navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Lsa\

Create LMCompatibilityLevel (DWord) and set the value to 1


The Win7 drive, which works and CHKDSK finds no problems is AFU - -
Partinfo.EXE from Partition Magic shows the following garbage:

Disk 0: 18365 Cylinders, 224 Heads, 19 Sectors/Track.
========================== Partition Tables =========================
Partition -----Begin---- ------End----- Start Num
Sector # Boot Cyl Head Sect FS Cyl Head Sect Sect Sects
--------- - ---- ---- ---- ---- -- ---- ---- ---- --------- ---------
0 0 80 0 32 33 07 12 223 19 2048 204800
Error #105: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 32.
Error #106: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 33.
Error #116: Starting sector of partition is inconsistent.
ulStartSect = 2048
Begin C,H,S = 640
Error #110: Number of sectors in partition is inconsistent.
ucSectors = 204800
end - begin = 54688
0 1 00 12 223 20 0C 1023 254 63 206848 36657152
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values a
0 1 00 48 134 15 0C 8661 146 10 206848 36657152
Error #105: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 134.
Error #106: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 15.
Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndHead expected to be 223, not 146.
Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndSector expected to be 19, not 10.
0 2 00 1023 254 63 07 1023 254 63 36864000 41297920
Info: Begin C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Info: End C,H,S values were large drive placeholders.
Actual values a
0 2 00 8661 146 11 0718365 25 5 36864000 41297920
Error #105: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginHead expected to be 0 or 1, not 146.
Error #106: Partition didn't begin on head boundary.
ucBeginSector expected to be 1, not 11.
Error #109: Partition ends after end of disk.
ucEndCylinder (18365) must be less than 18365.
Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndHead expected to be 223, not 25.
Error #108: Partition didn't end on cylinder boundary.
ucEndSector expected to be 19, not 5.
================================================== ============================



Disk 0: 38164.8 Megabytes
============================ Partition Information
===========================
Volume Partition Partition Start Total
Letter:Label Type Status Size MB Sector # Sector Sectors
------------- --------------- -------- ------- --------- - ---------
---------
NTFS Pri,Boot 100.0 0 0 2048 204800
*:NO NAME FAT32X Pri 17899.0 0 1 206848 36657152
NTFS Pri 20165.0 0 2 36864000 41297920
================================================== ======================
Boot Sector for drive *: (Drive 0, Starting Sector 0x800, Type: NTFS
================================================== ======================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes Per Sector: 512
4. Sectors Per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FAT's: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0 (0x0000)
9. Media Descriptor: 248
10. Sectors Per FAT: 0
11. Sectors Per Track: 63 (0x003F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0x00FF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 2048 (0x00000800)
14. Big Total Sectors: 0 (0x00000000)
15. Unused: 0x80 0x00 0x80 0x00
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 204799 (0x31FFF)
17. MFT Start Cluster: 8533 (0x2155)
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 2 (0x2)
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x606C6EC06C6E9098
22. Checksum: 0x00000000
23. Boot Signatu 0xAA55
================================================== ======================
Boot Sector for drive *: (Drive 0, Starting Sector 0x32800, Type: FAT32
================================================== ======================
1. Jump: EB 58 90
2. OEM Name: MSDOS5.0
3. Bytes Per Sector: 512
4. Sectors Per Cluster: 32
5. Reserved Sectors: 6688
6. Number of FAT's: 2
7. Reserved: 0x0000
8. Reserved: 0x0000
9. Media Descriptor: 248
10. Sectors Per FAT: 0
11. Sectors Per Track: 19 (0x0013)
12. Number of Heads: 224 (0x00E0)
13. Hidden Sectors: 206848 (0x00032800)
14. Big Total Sectors: 36657152 (0x022F5800)
15. Big Sectors Per FAT: 8944
16. Extended Flags: 0x0000
17. FS Version: 0x0000
18. First Cluster of Root: 2 (0x00000002)
19. FS Info Sector: 1
20. Backup Boot Sector: 6
21. Reserved: 000000000000000000000000
22. Drive ID: 0x80
23. Reserved for NT: 0x00
24. Extended Boot Sig: 41
25. Serial Number: 0xC4B38ED0
26. Volume Name: NO NAME
27. File System Type: FAT32
28. Boot Signatu 0xAA55
================================================== ======================
Boot Sector for drive *: (Drive 0, Starting Sector 0x2328000, Type: NTFS
================================================== ======================
1. Jump: EB 52 90
2. OEM Name: NTFS
3. Bytes Per Sector: 512
4. Sectors Per Cluster: 8
5. Reserved Sectors: 0
6. Number of FAT's: 0
7. Root Dir Entries: 0
8. Total Sectors: 0 (0x0000)
9. Media Descriptor: 248
10. Sectors Per FAT: 0
11. Sectors Per Track: 63 (0x003F)
12. Number of Heads: 255 (0x00FF)
13. Hidden Sectors: 36864000 (0x02328000)
14. Big Total Sectors: 0 (0x00000000)
15. Unused: 0x80 0x00 0x80 0x00
16. Total NTFS Sectors: 41297919 (0x27627FF)
17. MFT Start Cluster: 786432 (0xC0000)
18. MFT Mirror Start Clust: 2 (0x2)
19. Clusters per FRS: 246
20. Clusters per Index Blk: 1
21. Serial Number: 0x220088B100888D8B
22. Checksum: 0x00000000
23. Boot Signatu 0xAA55


I know zip about all the numbers, but I can tell you one thing...
If you let windows 7 install and reformat/repartition the hard drive,
you get a hidden partition at the beginning. Win7 uses it for some stuff
that I never need. I think it also played an incidental role in copy
protection.
And it played havoc with older programs that did image
backups and older disk analysis programs, cuz they weren't able to
properly map the physical partitions to the logical ones. That may
be cured by more recent versions.

My solution was to eliminate it.
If you use a different program, like Gparted run from a live linux CD,
you cans set up your NTFS partitions. Tell win7 installer to use
the existing partitions and you'll get an installation without that
hidden partition. Life got simpler after that.
AFAIK, the only thing I lost was the feature that lets you automagically
mount encrypted thumb drives. Never wanted that anyway.
I installed Win7 from scratch on an empty drive and did no reformatting
/ repartitioning.
Yes,i saw the 100Mb "system" _partition_ first; a waste of partitions
(just like Linux).
So, i should start over and make a HD with only partitions i want?


Well, that's what I did, but you may have other requirements.
It's more than just a waste of space. It's confusing to some older
programs that depend on a different mapping between physical and logical
partitions.

There seems to be no way to have win7 partition without that extra
thing at the start. Have to use some other partitioning system.
Bootable live GPARTED CD works.