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RE: Will the Ultimate Boot Disc fix the black screen of death? :: Chit Chat

markcooper — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:26:51 GMT

Author: markcooper
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:26 pm (GMT -8)

When you change two things and stuff goes wrong go back to the original state and replace first one thing and then the other.Chances are one of them is the culprit.Make very sure memory and the card are properly seated.On one of my motherboards inserting memory bends the motherboard slightly in the middle of the memory slot and I have to pull it up by the edge to make the computer work.
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Black Screen on Windows log in :: Chit Chat

Owlett5 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:26:25 GMT

Author: Owlett5
Subject: Black Screen on Windows log in
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 6:26 am (GMT -8)

Hello and help!

I somehow killed my friends computer. His computer runs XP. On starting his computer his computer will go through the welcome screen of window XP and then proceed to a black screen. He says that he can't even use his mouse.

We tried running his computer in "safe mode". Again windows got past the welcome screen and then went to a black screen instead of the desktop.

I really need help fixing his computer! He's convinced it's "dead". Is there a system restore on the UBCD that will help this problem? Also, I heard you had to change the BIOS settings to boot from CD, what is BIOS?

Please help!

RE: pen drive :: UBCD V4 Requests & Suggestions

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Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 2:39 am (GMT -8)

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RE: Fast Disk Wipe :: UBCD V5 Discussion

markcooper — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:47:03 GMT

Author: markcooper
Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:47 am (GMT -8)

When a drive is formatted, the partition tables are just emptied. The data is still left on that hard drive. the recovery disks just load the original data onto the hdd,overwriting the sectors needed. the rest of the data is still there.The ultimate boot cd is burnt from an iso image,so nothing is installed on the drive.
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Ubuntu 9.10, Syslinux, UBCD 5 : 3 Step How-To Guide :: UBCD V5 Discussion

delicatepc — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:33:38 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Subject: Ubuntu 9.10, Syslinux, UBCD 5 : 3 Step How-To Guide
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:33 pm (GMT -8)

Hi,

I have been able to add and run Ubuntu 9.10 off of my UBCD build. I am running syslinux 3.84.

1) I have downloaded the Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop ISO, extracted it, and deleted everything BUT these folders (please let me know if I can delete more!):

Code:

.disk
casper
dists
pool
preseed

2) I then transferred those folders to my UBCD usbstick.
3) Added the following entries in the syslinux menu (work good for me):

Code:

LABEL -
MENU LABEL Ubuntu 9.10 LiveOS (Live - No Changes Saved)
LINUX /casper/vmlinuz
INITRD /casper/initrd.lz
APPEND preseed/file=preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw splash --

LABEL -
MENU LABEL Ubuntu 9.10 LiveOS (Persistent)
LINUX /casper/vmlinuz
INITRD /casper/initrd.lz
APPEND preseed/file=preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper persistent ramdisk_size=1048576 root=/dev/ram rw splash --

Thats it! Boot and try it out!

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dpc

How do I execute a file? :: UBCD V4 Tutorials & How-Tos

adrianparkinson — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:15:23 GMT

Author: adrianparkinson
Subject: How do I execute a file?
Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:15 am (GMT -8)

Hi, I'm a noob so patience please. I need to update the firmware on a WD disk. WD have sent me the file 0405g05.exe. I need to boot to dos and run this file. I have no floppy drive and my motherboard doesn't allow me to boot from usb. So i've found UBCD which looks great. I downloaded the iso, burnt it to a CDRW and did a test boot, which worked. Now I need to execute the file, so I made a directory in the under the DOSAPPS (as per instructions elsewhere on this forum) and copied the file there and burnt the files to the disk (I'm using win7 btw). I booted using the cd, ran freedos, entered the DOSAPPS directory to find my directory I created missing.
Its a simple thing I need to do, please help
regards
Adrian

RE: Sharing Violation :: UBCD V5 Support & Troubleshooting

delicatepc — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:22:32 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:22 pm (GMT -8)

I use -f (force) and force FAT32 because i found it was the best way to get it to work with USB sticks and HDDs. Apparently it will not want to install syslinux to USBHDD unless syslinux is forced and the FAT32 is due to some obscure issue i encountered randomly.

I have been using my build of UBCD with usb sticks/hdds ranging from 32mb to 100+gb hdds. I have not had any reason/need to use FAT16 so thats why i was curious.

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dpc

RE: Sharing Violation :: UBCD V5 Support & Troubleshooting

Icecube — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:44:33 GMT

Author: Icecube
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 4:44 pm (GMT -8)

delicatepc wrote:

This always makes sure the UBCD installs onto a FAT32 partition (which would likely resolve this user's issue). Do you think this should be changed in UBCD?

FAT16 is better for small USB sticks (<2GB ==> 2 GB is FAT16 limit), so setting FAT32 by default is probably not that great.

Quote:

I also added a -f in the syslinux command (found that it works better):

Code:

"%~dp0\syslinux" -ma -d boot\syslinux %a2% -f

Did you get problems a lot when you don't use "force"?

Quote:

Also what are the SETLOCAL (line 17), UBCD (line 82), and ENDLOCAL (line 93) commands added to the script?

I don't know much of batch scripting (Victor does this), so the following may not be completely accurate.
I think SETLOCAL and ENDLOCAL define a region in the script. In this region all new variables that are set are only available in this section (are not globally created).

'UBCD' should be on line 81. Good find!

Code:

echo Requires: W2K/XP/W2K3/Vista/W2K8/W7 and an (optionally extracted) UBCD

I always install UBCD manually (running syslinux installer and copying the files from the ISO, without formatting). That's why I didn't write a linux script to install UBCD on an USB stick, but wrote instructions instead.
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RE: Problems with tools booting from usb :: UBCD V5 Support & Troubleshooting

Icecube — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:22:48 GMT

Author: Icecube
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 4:22 pm (GMT -8)

delicatepc wrote:

Icecube is this a issue with FreeDos not finding/mapping the CD drive properly?

Yes, it is.

I hope Victor knows a way to fix the problem.
Maybe when you step trough the FreeDOS booting part manually (choose which USB driver to use), it may work. The default won't work for everybody, it seems.
There a new USB drivers for DOS (not in UBCD50RC1), maybe they can help:
http://ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2025
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RE: MEMDISK-ISO same as MEMDISK? :: UBCD V5 Discussion

Icecube — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:53:51 GMT

Author: Icecube
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:53 pm (GMT -8)

In UBCD50RC1 MEMDISK and MEMDISK-ISO are not the same.
The normal MEMDISK in UBCD50RC1 doesn't support ISO's
The MEMDISK-ISO version is based on the normal MEMDISK (except 2 patches) + ISO booting patches.

In Syslinux 3.84 or higher, MEMDISK supports ISO's (no special version anymore). So in the next UBCD50 release, there will be only a MEMDISK and no separate MEMDISK-ISO.
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RE: 'Read-only file system' error when changing registry :: UBCD V4 Support & Troubleshooting

Icecube — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:47:27 GMT

Author: Icecube
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 3:47 pm (GMT -8)

Try UBCD50RC1 or update Offline Password and Registry Editor yourself.
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RE: 'Read-only file system' error when changing registry :: UBCD V4 Support & Troubleshooting

rszatkowski — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:37:26 GMT

Author: rszatkowski
Subject: Read-only problem
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:37 am (GMT -8)

I am also having this problem. I can not get past anything! Nothing will change and I can see that My Administrators account is set to blank.....

This is the error I get every time I try to exit the registry editor:
cpnt: /disk/WINDOWS/system32/config/software: Read-only file system

Please help! My taxes need to be sent in and they are on this computer (which has NO Userinit key...blanked out by malware).

Rene

RE: Sharing Violation :: UBCD V5 Support & Troubleshooting

delicatepc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:04:31 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 11:04 am (GMT -8)

Icecube,

In my version of UBCD I have modified the win32 ubcd2usb.cmd to this (line 50 specifically):

Original

Code:

format "%a2%" /v:%VOLUME_ID% /x /q

New

Code:

format "%a2%" /FS:fat32 /V:%VOLUME_ID% /x /q

This always makes sure the UBCD installs onto a FAT32 partition (which would likely resolve this user's issue). Do you think this should be changed in UBCD? I dont remember if I have asked this before.

I also added a -f in the syslinux command (found that it works better):

Code:

"%~dp0\syslinux" -ma -d boot\syslinux %a2% -f

Also what are the SETLOCAL (line 17), UBCD (line 82), and ENDLOCAL (line 93) commands added to the script?

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RE: Problems with tools booting from usb :: UBCD V5 Support & Troubleshooting

delicatepc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:20:00 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:20 am (GMT -8)

Icecube is this a issue with FreeDos not finding/mapping the CD drive properly? I understand the concept of the workaround just curious.

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RE: Sharing Violation :: UBCD V5 Support & Troubleshooting

delicatepc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:17:14 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:17 am (GMT -8)

Two questions:

1. Can you use diskpart or whatever and manually format the usb stick to fat32 with default options? It sounds like ubcd script doesnt force fat32 if fat is current. This might fix your problem/warning related to cluster size (which shouldnt be there).

2. What command are you using to run the installer? The error at the end is basically saying "I checked for a file on the USB stick but I didnt find it; translation the UBCD files didnt successfully make it over". Its a simple check that looks for the file ubcd2usb.cmd on the USB drive, if it doesnt find it, it assumes that something failed along the way (which it likely did).

I am curious why its asking to overwrite the ".rnd" file... Exactly what did you specify as your ubcd source file path?

Proper command looks like so:

ubcd2usb c:\ubcdfolder e:

where c:\ubcdfolder is just where the ubcd files are and e: is the drive that you want to install these files to.

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dpc

RE: BOOT ISO FILES ON PENDRIVE? How? :: UBCD V5 Support & Troubleshooting

delicatepc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:09:02 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:09 am (GMT -8)

You will need to read the forums and documentation a little more. It sounds like you are not sure what you are doing and I am not sure thats something we can/want to teach/fix here.

To install to USB you need to run the ubcd2usb.cmd file located in the tools folder. It will take care of formatting the drive, transferring the needing files, and basically everything you need to get started. UBCD doesnt support booting off a NTFS usb partition yet (depends on when syslinux/grub add ntfs support).

As for loading your ISOs that is fairly easy. Its a matter of adding entries in the custom.cfg and transferring the iso to the custom folder. There is quite a few threads in the forum about this (i read at least 3 today). Search and take a look around.

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dpc

RE: Multiple OS/Utils :: UBCD V5 Discussion

delicatepc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:01:00 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:01 am (GMT -8)

Hi cripp7,

See this thread:http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1931
It doesnt completely answer your question but it gives some more info with ubcd and multiple OS/diag/tools.

The Tool booting should be possible without too much trouble. Its a matter of mapping out WIM files and so on.

The OS booting on the other hand can be a problem. Vista and later bootloader only support single install.wim file. OK say you combine both archs and both OSes into a single install.wim file - The resulting file will be bigger than fat32 single file size limit (4GB). Support for NTFS syslinux booting is on syslinux dev mind but no guarantee when/if it will happen. Only semi-solid solution i have found for this is to use USB-HDD and create multiple partitions, keep the diagnostics/ubcd/tools on the first partition and then use syslinux to chainload the other partitions (which can be NTFS or whatever; the chainloading process does care).

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dpc

RE: Diagnostics on UEFI systems :: UBCD V5 Discussion

delicatepc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:48:38 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:48 am (GMT -8)

Not necessarily diagnostic tool but Microsoft Vista and later bootloader now support EFI (apparently). There is a folder called EFI in each cd/dvd.

I suppose you could use Windows Recovery Environment and/or the windows built in memory test. Not much but just thought i would give you a heads up.

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RE: Some Custom images don't boot :: UBCD V5 Discussion

delicatepc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:44:50 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Subject: Re: custom images wont boot
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:44 am (GMT -8)

Unclejoe thanks for following up and helping locate that syslinux issue. I know it can be time consuming to test and document these things. Much appreciated.

crazydrve wrote:

I know its piracy from what i have read

To my knowledge UBCD doesnt use anything that violates any licenses and/or pirates. I did some research for some of the apps I use and they all check out. As for Hiren that may be a different story - I have it filed under testing/experimental/grey area app. I have tried it using the USB booting as ISO and it works with some quirks (ie maps the drive in the wrong place etc); I found the syslinux/extracted version was a little bit more stable/less bugs.

~dpc

RE: HP utilities :: UBCD V5 Discussion

delicatepc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:29:22 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:29 am (GMT -8)

Hi Customizer,

What is the ISO? BIOS update? Do you have a link to ISO? I am curious to see if I can get it working give it a shot.

Let me know.

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dpc

MEMDISK-ISO same as MEMDISK? :: UBCD V5 Discussion

delicatepc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:24:38 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Subject: MEMDISK-ISO same as MEMDISK?
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:24 am (GMT -8)

I noticed 5.0RC1 has a MEMDISK and a MEMDISK-ISO file. Is there any difference in the two? I was under the impression memdisk now supports iso booting.

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RE: Dell Diagnostics v1349 :: UBCD V5 Discussion

delicatepc — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:22:38 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:22 am (GMT -8)

Quote:

btw, the most recent version of Dell Diags that I have found were from the file listing for the XPS M1530

Dell has several diagnostic packages each targeting different machines. I have a set of three that I currently use that cover most/all of the dell machines I have worked on.

I personally like to use the CW##### naming scheme (dell uses this) and then adding in the texthelp the list of models that version supports. That way you know what you have and easily know which one supports what.

I have also had success to creating the hdd image file using the dell diag installer tool and running it with syslinux/UBCD (prior to the ISO booting capability being adding in syslinux.

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RE: Boot disk build warning about XP CD :: UBCD V4 Support & Troubleshooting

Icecube — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:59:55 GMT

Author: Icecube
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:59 pm (GMT -8)

Ask at: http://www.ubcd4win.com/forum/
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RE: How can i ad. a 2 Gig image to the USB Stick? :: UBCD V5 Discussion

Icecube — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:58:44 GMT

Author: Icecube
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:58 pm (GMT -8)

If it really an ISO and not a hard disk image, you need 'APPEND iso' (but then your file normally would have .iso at the end of the filename and not .img)

Code:

LABEL -
MENU LABEL Your own boot image here
TEXT HELP
Your help message goes here.
ENDTEXT
LINUX /boot/syslinux/memdisk
INITRD /ubcd/custom/myimagename.img
APPEND iso

How much RAM do you have? You need at least as much as the size of the ISO (a bit more if you want to boot this ISO).
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RE: How can i ad. a 2 Gig image to the USB Stick? :: UBCD V5 Discussion

delicatepc — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:11:33 GMT

Author: delicatepc
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 1:11 pm (GMT -8)

Sounds like its trying to load the 2-3GB ISO image into RAM and runs out of memory (which sounds logical if you have less that 2gb of RAM). Also I may be shooting into the dark but I believe there is a limit to how large a image (ISO or otherwise) can be before you run into other constraints other than just physical memory available (say the bootloader only can read isos 4gb and less but you have 8gb of physical ram).

Depending on what the ISO (is it linux OS, Windows installer, etc., etc..) you can find a method on extracting it using Syslinux or grub to load up the individual files.

More info on what the ISO is will help.

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