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 15:29:49 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 78 Message-ID: <29qe0d5mp7a8vu1bktnibsuh54c2k3oe9l@4ax.com> 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:134484 On Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:40:42 -0500, Paul wrote: >Some Guy wrote: >> Ghost 2003: >> >> http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/265545~688de4fa5cfd7a3653cce1c3f147b3d4/G HOST_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. > >When you unpack the above GHOST_BOOTx.zip file, are >you finding it corrupted ? There seems to be a problem >unpacking the second floppy image. The file might have >been truncated. > >The copy of wget in the wsusoffline download, doesn't >use a separate iconv.dll like the gnuwin32 version >does. You might test that and see if you get a similar >error. For some reason, the wsusoffline version is >a lot smaller than the current gnuwin32 downloads >one. And I can't tell the history of these things, >because the files don't contain metadata to mark them. > >There's nothing magic about the wget, and this is just >an experiment to see if another transfer agent will >give any different kind of result. > > Paul I just bought Norton Ghost 2003 on ebay for $10 shipped. Complete with the manual and box. I'm sure all this crap online is corrupted intentionally because it's pirated commercial software, even if it is nearly abandoned. Back in the 90s, a person could get any commercial software on the web, but that is no longer the case. I dont even try to get that stuff anymore. THen again, I dont need any software. I have everything I need. But this Ghost is one thing I always wanted and needed. Now I will have a legal copy. I bought Partition Magic on ebay too and that gets used very often. I have no intention of ever using any Windows newer than XP anyhow. I use my XP and my Win98 and that is all I will ever need. By the time XP no longer connects to the internet, I wont be using the internet, because the entire internet is going to be Facebook, and I will require someone to pay me at least $250,000 before I even get a FB account. And I dont expect anyone to pay me.... --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .