Subj : Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive To : All From : james@nospam.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: james@nospam.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 15:17:02 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <2e49F9HceGAaFw0R@soft255.demon.co.uk> <9gka0d55a85fgg6d62v76qacjftdvtei72@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: TKghX/mglWkVW1qxlGBsyg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134483 On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 10:17:05 -0500, Some Guy wrote: >Ghost 2003: > >http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/265545~688de4fa5cfd7a3653cce1c3f147b3d4/ GHOST_BOOTx.zip > >Paul wrote: > >>> It looks like you are saying that you downloaded the Ghost zipfile. Is >>> that correct? It is refusing to download for me. It starts downloading >>> and fails after about 10 seconds, saying "source could not be read". >>> >>> The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can >>> usually DL files of that size without problems. > >The file is 1310 kbytes. > >On a 56kbit dial-up connection, your throughput should be 5.5 kbyte/sec. > >1310 / 5.5 = 238 seconds. That's about 4 minutes. Shouldn't take you >1/2 hour to download a 1.3 megabyte file. > >Firefox 2.0.0.20 can download the above zip file with no problem. > >> Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ? > >Odd thing I'm finding about wget lately. I've got 2 versions of it on >my win-98 computer. Both of them are giving me this error: > > idn_decode failed (9): 'System iconv failed' > >This is not a host-ip DNS resolution failure, and this has nothing to do >with using wget to retrieve an https url. > >wget used to work, but I haven't used it in a while. I never connect at 56k. If I get 44K I'm lucky. Most of the time I get around 30K. There is about one mile of old copper cable coming to my house from the pedestal along the road, and the wire coming ot the pedestal is probably also real old. When you live in a rural area, these old wires were only meant to be used for voice telephone. I did get that Ghost zipfile though. I just took my laptop to a WIFI and it took seconds. Now that I got it, I am wondering what to do with it. Inside is a .EXE file. Do I need to run that and make a floppy, or what? I hesitate to run stuff like that, not knowing what to expect. At the WIFI I looked up wget. After getting thru all the bogus websites trying ot get me to download some other shit, I did find a legitimate copy of it and downloaded it. However, in the process I ran across a few forums that said that it no longer works, and even some website that said to download some other file to correct the errors it's giving. That pretty much threw up a red flag as far as even trying it. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .