Quote from sam93 :

I have cloned the hard drive and I now get an error on bootup.

Error:
(Windows Boot Manager)

Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.

File: \windows\system32\winload.exe

Status: 0xc000000e

Info: The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or currupt.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

How can I fix this, I don't have the Vista disc to repair it. I have read that there is a command that can fix it but I don't know that command. If someone could help me over come this error I will be most grateful

Have you tried to repair it:
see here
http://www.windowsvista.window ... e/repairstartup/part1.htm

.

Quote from mrodgers :

I was first introduced to computers other than some simple classroom stuff in college when I started my current job. That was with Windows 3.1.

Win95 was coming and everyone complained how horrible it was. Then everyone had Win95 and it was great.

Win98 came out, and everyone using Win95 for the past x years complained about how horrible it was. Then everyone moved to Win98 and it was great.

WinXP came out, and everyone using Win98 complained about how horrible XP was. Then everyone moved to WinXP and it was great.

Recently, Vista came out, and everyone using WinXP complained about how horrible Vista is. Now look at how many folks moved to Vista and think it's great.

Now Windows 7 or whatever it is, is coming, and look at you all complaining about how horrible it is going to be. I predict eventually, everyone be using Windows 7 and saying how great it is....

for me it was win 3.11

There is lot of truth in what you wrote
but lets not forget that it was usually only like this:

Quote from mrodgers :

it was great

when at least the first service pack was out.

But I'm not complaining as installing all that stuff
for customers still gives alot of money

Oh and you forgot WinME in your list
but that was never great
maybe because there was never a SP for it iirc

Congrats amd good luck

Quote from hyntty :

And even if you do have a fair point, which I'm not saying you necessarily even have, after such a hostile post I wouldn't change anything if I was in the shoes of ER(T). (You at no point used the word please, you only demanded them to do a change.)

But meh, doesn't concern me.

hostile? Looks like you want to see what you wanted to see instead of reading it right
Maybe it's the language barrier again but
I showed what I mean and wrote:
"we would like to see that you guys would think about your team tag again"
That's "english written in a polite manner" like I was teached many years ago.
I didn't really demanded anything anywhere here except that for me the LFS community etiquette would belong to things like that.

Quote from hyntty :

No. I think it's preposterous that three almost same letters in a completely different order (excluding the | here for a moment) is what you consider somehow plagiarism. The only thing that they have in common really is the colour. (And a colour in which, in game you can't tell any letters apar from each other so no one will notice any difference no matter what you put there).

Why excluding the | ?
That is exactly the point.
The question is is it necessary to use something that look that similar?

Would you be happy if others would choose a tag similar to your teams tag
Just as an example:
[NR0]Name
[NDR]Name

Would you then say it's just the colours that make it look similar?
It's not only the colours it's also the other stuff, the whole tag, that makes it look almost the same.
But if you don't get it or don't think like that, it's ok for me.
As it's not really your business or are you part of ERT to whom I adressed my original post.

They just started the team then changed their Tag, shouldn't be the problem to change it again
just a tiny little bit to not let it look like our Team tag.
Things like that belong for me to the LFS community etiquette.

Quote from hyntty :

Err... anything in blue and containing three letters will look the same since it's such an awful colour you can't tell which letters they are. And you can't have blue all to yourself.

I you would have read my post more properly then you would see that your post doesn't make much sense.

I'm not talking about blue colour.
I also said I can live with the tag shown in post#1.
I'm talking about that it now looks almost the same
(especially with the yellow | behind the letters).

We have used it like this in the last years without any problems
because other teams tried to be more creative to find something
more unique (even if it is one simple thing that make it look different).
That's all I've asked for.

As someone already spoke about the LFS community etiquette,
As one of the Team Managers from Triple 7 Racing I also would like to say something:

Quote from pacesetter :

...We have changed our team tag also from [IE] to ERT|...

Looks like you also changed the colours of your team tag again.
I could live with the blue one (see your quote) but (see attached picture) this is more then similar to the Tag we are using online since 2004.

- The same colours as our Tag
- Almost the same letters (in diff. order)
- Only one different "letter" E instead of 7
- Even the streak | is the same

Is that really necessary?

Like it is now it's hard to tell who belongs to wich team etc. and
as much as we at Triple 7 Racing like that others are making us an hommage, we would like to see that you guys would think about your team tag again.

Thank You.

Last edited by BBO@BSR, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 12:39.

Quote from blackout :

http://xkcd.com/528/

:biggrinfl

Quote from robt :

My sister used the pc without permission for one evening,

Password it and the problems are gone

I didn't meant it in a technical way

more the or my felt impression

Last edited by BBO@BSR, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 19:58.

1 thread should be enough:
http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=1034889#post1034889

Vista is for me a bit like WinME
not really special, more problems than positive things, etc.
and not many people really like it, means MS sells not enough copies.

They just hope they can stimulate their business with Win7 again.
Let's wait and see

I use Acronis True Image for that kind of things, easy and simple.

but you said "no money" maybe that can help you too
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/hdclonefree.html

Looks like you got a worm

READ IT
http://www.precisesecurity.com ... 08/09/20/resycledbootcom/

try "Malwarebytes Anti-Malware" to remove it

Haha great thing -it rocks

Happy Birthday!
resent: :cake: :yummy:

Quote from Victor :

hm lfsworld only remembers window positions and not sizes so I'm afraid you're mistaken about the other windows.

I'm sorry, you are right.
I was so sure about the other windows
but now I remeber that I also always resized the chatterbox too (looks like I'm getting old)

Quote from Victor :

Maybe i can implement that though, will need to have a look.

That would be nice in any case.

Quote from ACCAkut :

thats discriminating, i want my flag too

Same here
Lower Saxony FTW

Hi Victor,

is it a bug,a feature or just a problem on my side?
( Don't think it's on my side I got it in FF3 and IE7)

When I change the size of the LFS News window to my liking
on LFS Desktop (www.lfsworld.net) then the original size
of the News window is restored everytime I visit the site again.

The window size of all the other stuff (Live Alert,Chatterbox etc.)
is stored.

So would be nice if you can add that to the LFS News aswell.
Or I have to rearrange it everytime by hand again

Maybe this would work for people who are not in a team (but a lot are).

For me it's like this:
When I want to race/practice/whatever a specific car/track combo then I use our own Teamserver. After a while usually some people I know come and race with me or us.
If there are people that don't behave, then I or one of our Team usually kicks/bans them.

So in other words I don't have the need for something like you suggested and I wouldn't pay for an admined server (or like you wrote "high quality" server) as our team got it's own.

And if I/we don't race there then there is CTRA and leagues.

Maybe there is a problem with the drive letters/registry.

Can you assign another drive letter to this drive in the Disk Management (dunno if this is the right term /Datenträgerverwaltung in german)?

Use [WindowsButton]+[R] then start " compmgmt.msc "
then choose another drive letter for the HDD

Or check if the drive letter is activated or not
iirc you can use TweakUI to check of the drive letters are activated or not etc.

Quote from ACCAkut :

If I see it right you use quite a few portable devices, can XP may only recognice a certain number of them? And IIRC objects in grey show that these are ready to detach, maybe its really down to low power.

Looks like he is using an USB card reader so these are not "real" external drives.

Just for the info ;-)
About the drives:
Windows can use as much drives as the alphabet has (minus A and B as these letters are reserved for Floppy Disks) so 24 devices/disks/CD/DVD can be used in total.
And you can attach up to 127 USB devices. (But usually you run out of power)

btw. I once had a SATAII drive and from time to time it lost connection without any warning, after a reboot is was there again. A few days later it suddenly dissappeared again etc. etc.. Half a year later the drive was completly dead.

So my best guess is also low power or a drive that starts to die sooner or later but I hope it's something different.

I also had this problem a few times with some PCs.
Can be everything, low power, defective USB port or drive, loose contact of the plug / connector ...

Have you tried to just plug it into another USB port?

Quote from white92talontsi :

... Or maybe LFS can be like every other game i have and let me install it and play it as many times as i want. Just install and enter my cd-key back in and done!

Actually with LFS you can do more then with a lot of other games (LFS can be installed on 2 computers and then you can play via LAN with only 1 license - for many many other games you need to buy 2 CDs/licenses to do that or you have to pay for the online playing etc.)

And when I look at your join date it's not like you have discovered LFS a week ago and didn't know about it the unlock stuff.
You could have read the Unlock Rules and Regulations before you bought Stage 2 of the game. It's all written there.
If you don't like it, don't buy it. Simple as that.

As LFS is an online simulator and mainly be sold online (downloads) I bet the devs have a real good reason for their choice of the MasterServer unlocking procedure they use (crackers/hackers etc.)

It's up to you to use your unlocks in a normal way.
Thousands of others can do it and have no problem with it.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

It looks like cheesus.

:chairfall