Posts by raidscsi

Has anyone sucessfully installed SUSE or another full distro to a removeable drive? I have a bootable 1GB flash drive with Knoppix 5.1.1, however it is not persistant, nor does not include all the features of a full distro.

I have a 40GB 2.5" drive that would be perfect for a "portable" linux. I think that I could get it to work on 1 machine but if I moved it to another machine I think the hardware detection would freak out.

Other than Knoppix and Ubuntu are there other more featured distros under 1GB? I heard there is a live Gentoo?...

Another thought is to stick with live versions and use lilo or grub to boot 5 different distros from one drive(40gb=20GB data+4gbx5distro).

Also in my case the repair was time sensative. I needed to get the whole thing done in 24hours, andby googling the error I found no reliable fix. I wish you all luck in fixing your machines without a complete restore.

So is the only way to correct this problem is with a recovery partition? Is that the same thing as reformatting and wiping out the hard drive and reinstalling windows? If not, how do I do it? I really hope this is a last resort, if anyone else has experienced this and actually fixed it, I would be ever grateful.

Most computers have a restore partition/disk that will return the computer to the state that it shipped from the factory. I know that Gateway/Dell/HP-Compaq/Toshiba do. Essentially doing a restore is a format+reinstall+a little extra. It wasn't so bad in my case, she only had a few programs so fixing the error was harder than putting all her programs back on again.

(Work to fix weird Vista error.)>(Work to install programs over.)

WARNING : If you do a restore you will lose everything on that drive ! Back it up!

I was thinking of doing that, but won't a recovery from the recovery partition wipe out my media files currently saved on my hard drive?

I connected her laptop to my network and backed up her [c:\Users\"username"] which has all her My Docs, music, pictures etc. Made a note of what programs she had installed, made sure she had all the install discs for the stuff that wasn't on the restore partition and went at it.

If you don't already have a 500GB external USB backup drive buy one now.
1: With all the Black Friday deals they're under $100.
2: Data that only exists in one place doesn't exist at all.
3: They're really handy to have.

I have a 80gb laptop drive in a 2.5 inch inclosure so that I dont have to lug a power supply. 80gb portable drive that fits in your pocket! :) You can get a SATA 2.5" 250gb for around $150 plus the case. But for less than $100 you can get 500gb of backup.

I'm having the same problem. My problem also started after updating my AIM to a new version. My media players (iTunes and foobar2000) will say that the file is "playing", however the time will stay at 0:00 and no audio will play. I also get the same error message in Windows Media Player. If anyone has any ideas on the fixing of this, I'd really appreciate it.

I would like to add that a system restore did not fix the issue, but a restore from the recovery partition did fix the error.

She did have AIM and MySpaceIM installed. I wouldn't have guessed that these programs could be at fault...

Also I tried creating a new profile, incase her current user registry is corrupt, didn't fix the problem.

I don't know how to tell you to fi the slew of problems you may or may not have spawned if you installed those codec packs on top of each other, but at least try updating your sound card driver.

Just try it, it won't hurt.

Well, before I read this I stripped everything off this machine, except WM11 since it cannot be removed. I did update the soundcard driver from compaq(uninstall, reboot, install,reboot) but the latest was from June 07, This laptop came preinstalled with Vista, this isn't a upgrade problem or a bios issue, unless HP decided not to check the hardware->software on the computers it was selling.

So is it a complete random fact that this girl put, limewire=Very Very Very Bad, on her machine right before it happened. I've run the latest Ad-Aware and AVG / Avast scans found one unrelated virus.

This just seems to me exactly like "codecs are here" | "players are here". But nay, neither can see each other. Even WM11 has a default codec pack(every player needs some) and can go online to get them.

"Windows Media Player Encountered a Problem when playing this file." C00D11B1
This is the exact WM11 error, for any file. Now videos (.avi .mpg) are interesting, no sound, but the video plays fine, at least

Compaq laptop, Vista Home, Windows Sounds Play fine! Streaming audio from intenet(flash based player works too!) Every file type I can try doesn't have sound. I tried all the new codec packs, CCCP, NIMO etc. Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic, VLC player, MPlayer Nothing can get sound from this laptop, .mp3 .mpg .avi DVD nothing. There is nothing wrong with the drivers on this machine because it plays the login welcome noise when you turn it on! This is really frustrating. Also when you adjust the volume you can hear it too.

This is speculation: I am working on this machine for another person, who put Limewire on it. This program was the only thing that was installed before the no sound crash. She removed limewire, and when she did it killed the sound. I think :(