tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.comments2011-09-09T03:24:34.930-07:00nabiynoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-40472108902924665522010-11-28T04:58:16.000-08:002010-11-28T04:58:16.000-08:00I formatted my System drive and following your steps required, I used some different programs that seem to be a little easier. First I booted up Windows XP using HBCD and an external cdrom. Then I mounted the recovery partition using &#39;Partition Find and Mount&#39; on the HBCD and applied a drive letter. Next I navigated to D2D\images folder and opened the first *.SWM file with 7-zip. This will open up all the .swm files. Next I extracted these files to the System drive. It looks like another directory &#39;sources\boot.wim&#39; has some updated files to overwrite the generic windows image so I extracted these to the system drive and gave permission to overwrite when prompted.Dannynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-92119589064873481322010-11-09T06:43:40.000-08:002010-11-09T06:43:40.000-08:00hi Victor, the instructions given in the post above probably won&#39;t solve your problem (if you haven&#39;t already) as it sounds like you overwroten the bootloader. I&#39;d look installing the original operating systems bootloader as well as the partition (delete what partitions are there with the possible reception of any recovery partition and redo the full drive). good luck. - nabiynabiynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-42491565111711017292010-10-22T12:33:26.000-07:002010-10-22T12:33:26.000-07:00Hello nabiy,<br>quite interesting tutorial.<br>im in the office right now so i cant do the actual instructions.<br>my machine is AOD255 with N550, 250Gig.<br>It can dual boot with Android 1.6.<br>OS is Win7 starter, original partition is C (win7).<br>First i installed easeus to resize C to 60G and D for the remaining.<br>I made USB XP from wintoflash, but got a Hal.dll error after installation, it appreared that if i boot again from USB and choose disk 1 partion 4, it can boot from XP, i can also safely remove the USB after bootup.<br>During installation of XP i noticed few drives or partion w/c includes PQservice.<br>This is also evident when i resize drive C.<br>After unsuccessfull &quot;normal&quot; bootup from XP (using USB everytime to b able to boot). i finally decided to restore my Win7 by alt F10, everything works perfectly during restoration but when booting, had an error that the machine cannot boot.<br>So booting again from USB to XP, i tried to show PQservice as drive Z using easeus.<br><br>my questions are:<br>1. after i followed your instructions here, is it possible to completely erase all the partitions? is it safe?<br>because i saw few partions like 100MB, 4G (android i think), 4Gig (system), 13Gig (pqservice), 60gig (xp), 180G (new resized partition).<br>2. Is the 100MB needed to restore win7?<br>3. there are few more other folders in the PQservice drive like &quot;patch&quot;, etc. How do i run it?<br><br>regards,<br><br>VictorVictorhttp://www.asmpacific.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-83145098404336093022010-08-23T07:03:40.000-07:002010-08-23T07:03:40.000-07:00desdigner babies are bad. shame on you.luke.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-85626781619565543312010-08-05T06:48:36.000-07:002010-08-05T06:48:36.000-07:00hello JB, sorry for the delay in response. You&#39;re not missing anything that I can think of so I would definitely call Acer as it seems they gave you the wrong cd package.<br><br>As a thought, couldn&#39;t you have selected english as the windows language after the installation?nabiynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-23241008356378013042010-05-12T17:19:28.000-07:002010-05-12T17:19:28.000-07:00I followed your excellent instructions and was able to build a WIM files that I was able to extract to my hard drive, and I got Windows, but in French, no English, interestingly enough. :) It appears that for some reason, all the SWM files on my Aspire (which had XP in English prior to an infection) are French. Is there something I&#39;m missing to allow me to select English, or should I call Acer about getting CDs?<br><br>JBJim Brundlenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-83764604763120425952010-04-14T21:31:55.000-07:002010-04-14T21:31:55.000-07:00Freedom of speech, should be above all. With in that speech you should not hurt or defame...Apophisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-67967924846095180042010-03-03T00:29:58.000-08:002010-03-03T00:29:58.000-08:00Thanks nabiytrebornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-1534653424787800532010-03-02T11:31:39.000-08:002010-03-02T11:31:39.000-08:00Hi Trebor, I have received quite a few requests for that feature and I am trying to implement it in my spare time, as well as the ability to read a registry live over the network. In the meantime, take a look at http://liveview.sourceforge.net/ it allows you to boot the image and you should be able to use the program as you would on a live system. - nabiynabiynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-66781750978830630712010-02-28T14:06:57.000-08:002010-02-28T14:06:57.000-08:00I am trying to use your tool for a post<br>morten forensics analisys<br>Is there a way to use this program with a registry file extracted from a<br>disk image?<br>With sleuthkit I extracted HLMK/system and I would like to give it as a input for your programtrebornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-79703274719563310442010-02-25T17:29:41.000-08:002010-02-25T17:29:41.000-08:00Many Thanks Nabiy took me awhile to figure out it really has to be a stand alone directory but once figure that out the rest was simpleTroynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-33317878555400425982009-10-28T10:35:10.000-07:002009-10-28T10:35:10.000-07:00Looking forward to the next build thanks so much for making them ^^<br><br>NishaNishaKittynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-58806502678972729112009-10-15T04:28:09.000-07:002009-10-15T04:28:09.000-07:00Many, MANY thanks for your documentation of the correct IMAGEX command syntax for merging all of those *.SWM files in the PQSERVICE partition. I&#39;ve been trying to use the wildcard syntax unsuccessfully, but didn&#39;t understand you should literally specify the first .SWM file name as the first source file.KeithBhttp://notebookreview.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-59305834502205476552009-09-17T01:03:33.000-07:002009-09-17T01:03:33.000-07:00windows 7 is the greatest windows OS yet. your article was well written i look forward to reading more of your posts!backgroundshttp://windowsseventhemes.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-36973468277579022632009-06-19T03:23:29.000-07:002009-06-19T03:23:29.000-07:00The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC). <br><br>Every vote, everywhere, would be politically relevant and equal in presidential elections. <br><br>The bill would take effect only when enacted, in identical form, by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes--that is, enough electoral votes to elect a President (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC). <br><br>The Constitution gives every state the power to allocate its electoral votes for president, as well as to change state law on how those votes are awarded. <br><br>The bill is currently endorsed by 1,659 state legislators — 763 sponsors (in 48 states) and an additional 896 legislators who have cast recorded votes in favor of the bill. <br><br>In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state&#39;s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). The recent Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University poll shows 72% support for direct nationwide election of the President. This national result is similar to recent polls in closely divided battleground states: Colorado-- 68%, Iowa --75%, Michigan-- 73%, Missouri-- 70%, New Hampshire-- 69%, Nevada-- 72%, New Mexico-- 76%, North Carolina-- 74%, Ohio-- 70%, Pennsylvania -- 78%, Virginia -- 74%, and Wisconsin -- 71%; in smaller states (3 to 5 electoral votes): Delaware --75%, Maine -- 71%, Nebraska -- 74%, New Hampshire --69%, Nevada -- 72%, New Mexico -- 76%, Rhode Island -- 74%, and Vermont -- 75%; in Southern and border states: Arkansas --80%, Kentucky -- 80%, Mississippi --77%, Missouri -- 70%, North Carolina -- 74%, and Virginia -- 74%; and in other states polled: California -- 70%, Connecticut -- 73% , Massachusetts -- 73%, New York -- 79%, and Washington -- 77%.<br><br>The National Popular Vote bill has passed 28 state legislative chambers, in small, medium-small, medium, and large states, including one house in Arkansas, Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Oregon, and both houses in California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. The bill has been enacted by Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and Washington. These five states possess 61 electoral votes -- 23% of the 270 necessary to bring the law into effect.<br><br>See http://www.NationalPopularVote.commvymvynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-48229546075818477862009-06-04T16:26:03.000-07:002009-06-04T16:26:03.000-07:00heya matt! i know it&#39;s been awhile. there is no better way to drop off the radar in the blogosphere than to disappear for a few weeks. i promise i&#39;ll try to post more regularly :) <br><br>anyways, i also used to use last.fm but this one seems better at finding music that i&#39;ll enjoy and you can continually add variety to the playlist. i don&#39;t remember last.fm doing that.nabiynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-37533984605945396432009-06-03T18:59:16.000-07:002009-06-03T18:59:16.000-07:00You&#39;re alive! I&#39;ve been using Last.fm, might have to make the transition.Matthttp://www.m4tt.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-88168433239169967182009-06-03T12:10:51.000-07:002009-06-03T12:10:51.000-07:00hi Marsha, if i were in your situation i would do a quick google search for &#39;acer aspire one linpus linux&#39; and grab a copy off of the torrent.nabiynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-69911256921612313502009-05-28T04:23:03.000-07:002009-05-28T04:23:03.000-07:00So, what if someone reformatted and put vista on an Aspire One? How do I get back to original (no discs)? Uncle bought it ... messed it up.. then gave it to me.. too cute to trash.<br>HelpMarshanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-12722443882703523492009-05-25T14:29:48.000-07:002009-05-25T14:29:48.000-07:00No, you can&#39;t.Gertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-57380450935246937482009-04-22T04:03:49.000-07:002009-04-22T04:03:49.000-07:00That sounds like a very useful tool. I think it would be used for the aspire versions with a regular hd drive that has the recovery partition and not the lighter NAND Drive version which does not include a recover partition.nabiynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-10709003229514340892009-04-14T23:44:00.000-07:002009-04-14T23:44:00.000-07:00On the eRecovery partition there is actually a tool called mbrwrwin.exe which is what Acer uses to backup and restore the master boot record. you will also find an mbr.bin file, which is the backup&#39;d MBR of the disk. by using &#39;mbrwrwin restore MBR.bin&#39; you get the original MBR back, along with the alt-f10 boot recovery option.<br><br>the application also has many other switches to explore, it is quite handy in a batch-tool environment. :)Chrishttp://shiningpolaris.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-45429668988408369472009-04-01T02:26:00.000-07:002009-04-01T02:26:00.000-07:00hi, if you have the recovery disks with the image (the *.swm files) then a reformat isn&#39;t a problem. I reformatted my drive with NTFS after coming back from linux. you will need to use something like erd commander* to do this.<br><br>@Dii, What i usually do is copy the swm files and imagex to one directory on a working computer and run the first command ( imagex /ref *.swm /export POP01021P2EN3C21.SWM 1 C:\acer.wim &quot;aspire&quot; )<br><br>this makes one backup image called acer.wim on your C: drive. Next i copy that file and imagex onto a thumb drive and run the next command (imagex /apply e:\acer.wim 1 c:\) in erd commander. This restores that image to your acer&#39;s local drive. reboot and you&#39;re done. - nabiy<br><br>* check out this site for a tutorial on using erd commander from your thumb drive:<br>http://forum.xatrix.org/tutorials-f26/erd-commander-2005-usb-t1552.htmlnabiynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-78850817460290871462009-03-30T20:20:54.000-07:002009-03-30T20:20:54.000-07:00so do i need to take out all the .swm files?Diinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3134641191309107026.post-19674896994330848922009-03-30T20:06:12.000-07:002009-03-30T20:06:12.000-07:00Wonderful if your local Acer rep didn&#39;t completely format your HD making it impossible to recover...Samnoreply@blogger.com