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I hope you realized my post was tongue-in-cheek.....

I've got a 10GB Maxtor and a 20GB Quantum Fireball if you're interested, Merc. I know Tannin collects these for his HDD museum, and I PMed him many, many full moons ago, but never heard back from him. He must still be wandering in the remote parts of his land.

I broke down and bought a Fluke 115 True RMS DMM; I really didn't need the expense at this particular time, but what to do! It was the cheapest True RMS Fluke I could buy here. Repeated measurements at various times of the day show a max of 248 VAC and a min of 235 VAC. Frequency ranges between...

jtr, you may want to download SysInternals Disk2VHD and Virtual PC 2007 right now; who knows when versions will change and Converter may not be able to work with the output of the the new version. Od course I have them saved and can provide them through a file upload/download service. Disk2VHD...

It's kinda painful for me to quote each person and irritating for the readers, so I'll consolidate my replies. DB, getting another multimeter is the first priority. I don't even know what I'm dealing with otherwise. Howell, my multimeter has a rotary switch that lets me select multiple ranges...

Intead of 40mm axial fans, why don't they use crossflow (tubular impeller) fans? These could run the width of the back of the 1U, run at a lower speed but provide adequate cooling for less noise.

jtr, thanks for the inputs. I always thought my multimeter was reliable, but numbers now are so off the wall I'm beginning to doubt that it has become defective (but how?). I need to get another / better one for my own peace of mind and credibility, and to show the clowns here. I was thinking of...

Max, there are about 450 apartments in this complex. I'm absolutely sure we have our own transformer(s) on premises. Getting the utility to do it is out of the question; it'll be easier for me to pluck my hair and teeth out one by one. Retaping ours is a long shot too; I'll have to prove that...

My PC has an APC Back UPS RS1500 line interactive UPS is front of it. Oddly, the voltage is the same at the raw wall socket or coming from the UPS. Right now it's 313VAC!

I don;t think my USP will geive me a report; perhaps, I'll have to look into it. I haven't hooked up my UPS' monitoring line to my new PC and installed the APC monitoring sw yet. Will do that tomorrow. That should at the very least give me a snapshot look at various times.

For anybody going this route in the future with a dead PC and a working boot partition: 1) Attach the drive to your system, and boot your system to its native OS, taking care NOT to boot into the OS you want to convert to a VM. If this does happen, you may be fried, as happened with me, but I...

Thanks Chewy! Been busy with social stuff for the last couple of days, couldn't get back here. My problem's SOLVED! Maxburn, you da man! On a lark, I reconverted the physical partition to VHD, built a basic Virtual PC 2007 with it, fed that to converter. Then following Max's advice, before...

No dice, Bozo. I downloaded Acronis True Image WD Edition (Build 14.184) and ran it. VMW Converter says: "The source parameters are invalid" Don't know if it is because the source is corrupted (I doubt it) or because the Acronis version is different - VMW Converter supports only Acronis True...

I need help from EE types for an electrical problem. We moved to a different apartment in February. Even since, I have had problems with electrical appliances & gadgets dying or misbehaving. I suspect this is what killed my motherboard recently, and why my UPS acts strange sometimes. It...

I used a USB-2-parallel converter with my parallel printer for about 5 years with no problems. It's when I bought a new printer a year ago that I went native USB-2-USB. I'd have to agree that the Startech card is your best bet.

Not sure I understand. Disk2VHD has no option for choosing the controller; only for specifying which drive you want converted to a VHD. Virtual PC has no option to choose the type of controller. The CD/DVD drive can be switched between IDE Primary or Secondary, but that's about it. My plan...

Thanks Chewy and Bozo. I tried restoring the XP boot image from an image backup I had and retried the disk2vhd/VirtualPC route, no dice. This route, for me anyway, is a dead-end. I disconnected all my other drives and tried booting from the XP boot partition; saw the XP logo briefly, then got...

His sense of humor and irony are superb as well.

A couple of quick suggestions: 1) Would using a PCI-E parallel port card help (if there is such a thing)? 2) Would using a USB->Parallel port converter help? I should have one or two in a box somewhere I could ship to you if you need them. Maybe Win7 will treat the above differently. Also, you...

The same problems are there in the Virtual PC VM. That means something has gone wrong in one or more of the following setps: 1) Copy of the boot partition (this is not the original) 2) Creation of the Virtual disk using the Sysinternals tool 3) Creation of the Virtual PC VM by Virtual PC by...

BTW: also fixed boot.ini by using bootcfg.

No luck so far. For this VM, VMW Player always tries "Network Boot From AMD AM79C970A", which fails and results in an "Operating System not found" message. I then deleted the network adapter in the VM config, and it results immediately in the OS not found message. I went into recovery console...

Not true. Converter will not see the OS boot partition on the old drive at all. You can convert a live (currently running OS on which Converter is installed) or you can convert a running OS that is on the network, or it has to be a VM.

Aah! I've misunderstood you all along; I thought you guys wanted me to do a repair on the physical image! I'll try the repair inside the VM. Thanks! Late now, will try first thing in the morning.

My understanding was that the old install would be happier in a VM rather than on the new physical machine. Disconnecting my W64 drives, connecting only the old XP one, doing a repair install, installing the system drivers for the new hw into XP, etc. is quite a bit of work!

There's about a 7 year difference in hardware. Repair install would be my last option. I can't believe it's so hard to convert a physical m/c into a virtual one when the m/c is dead. Kinda defeats 50% of the purpose of Converter.

Used Disk2VHD; it converted the OS partition to a .VHD (virtual disk) file. Converter cannot see that. So I downloaded Virtual PC 2007, which looked at it and created a 9kb .VMC file (cirtual PC VM). Now Converter was able to see the .VMC and created a VMW VM. Player looks at this VM, tries to...

Thanks guys. I'm going to try Disk2VHD first (I respect Sysinternals) and see where it takes me.

That's what I meant by saying "I checked the websites of the first 3; all trial versions are higher than supported by Converter". I don't already have any of these imaging programs.

I wanted to convert my old XP install (the actual boot drive) to a VM. Looks like I'm out of luck. The Converter 5.0 literature led me to believe I could point it any install and convert a physical install to a VM. Not so. The Help says: For computers not powered on: - A bunch of different...

Fixed. Stupid FF wasn't behaving. It behaved inconsistently. Most recently, it was clearing SF cookies when it wasn't supposed to. I cycled through the whole range of options step by step, logging in to SF a million times. Finally got it to stick. There a bug or two there somewhere.

Actually, global warming is predicted to lead to extremes. So this may not be out of line.

No matter who won, the next Prez would have a lot of problems. Obama inherited them in his first term. Looks like he'll continue to have to deal with them for a second.

I'll try your suggestion. I'll also try clearing out SF cookies and having them re-stored. Options > Privacy tab. The Exceptions button next to "Accept cookies from sites" has an Allow button that enables permanent cookies for sites you specify. I don't think this is an SF problem; it's with...

I've done that, not a problem. In W7, with the fresh install, the bookmarks button leaves the bookmarks open permanently till I close it. My office laptop running W7 woks like I want it to - floats the bookmarks and closes the bookmarks as soon as I choose one. But it ran several older versions...

I seem to have this problem every time I use a new PC to access SF. But it's the worst this time, because I started with a fresh install of FF 16.0.2 instead of upgrading on top of very old versions. I always have FF delete all cookies on exit. SF is the only site listed to be an exception...

So, Coug and Bozo, no multi-booting, it's only W7-64 all the way!

Am happy as a clam! 1) VMWare Player 5.0 took my old (VMW Workstation 4.0) W98 VM and updated it. My legacy app inside of it works like a charm! 2) I created a new XP VM using Player and installed the scanner driver inside it. Works! Player installed XP in this VM in about 5 mins, shocking the...

I'm not very good at typing. Something happened, and the incomplete message got posted. I went back in and edited, completed the post, and it kicked me out saying max 5 mins allowed for edits. Anyway the gist of my msg is complete, so I won't bore y'all more!

I'm truly thankful I'm shortsighted, and feel much like jtr. I've seen people with normal vision become long-sighted past the age of 40 and struggling to read if they didn't have reading glasses with them. My preferred mode of reading fine print, including newspapers, is to read without my...

I'd like some of it too, please?

Glad to hear you and family are ok, jtr. Sorry about your cat though :(

DD, Our reliance and dependence on power is so extreme: think lights, internet, computers, washing machines, etc. etc. You can have disasters in your area: earthquakes. I would urge you to go ahead with some local capacity, especially with the little one on the way.

Which jackass at MS decided to eliminate creation of extended partitions inside of Disk Manager? I had to google to learn that it can only be done from the command prompt or through a 3rd party tool. Castration time.

A friend that lives in NJ (about an hour from the NY state line) says he's been without power since Monday. Expected to be restored next Monday. He and his family are c-o-l-d! They have gas for cooking and hot water; the only saving grace.

Running the default Prime95 torture test since 4:35pm Oct 29 (19 hours now). No hiccups, but one odd thing; the system went to sleep (power led blinking) with the test running. Is that supposed to happen? I woke it after about 5 minutes and turned off sleep in the Power Settings. CPU Tj. Max is...

We have a little storm here as well; schools closed for the day. Nothing compared to Sandy.

Be careful with the amount of carbon monoxide it might put out.

This one is supposed to have combined with two other ones, hence the panic. It is said that global warming will lead to these kinds of monster hurricanes - all types of extreme events. Many have said we are almost at the point of no return, but you don't see any seriousness anywhere about doing...

Thanks Bozo. I first used VMW Workstation in 2001 when I bought version 2 and run a 3-tier setup (for educating myself) on an IBM T23 laptop with what was then a benchmark - one GB of RAM!