Until today, I assumed that Windows CE was writing everything to disk and I wouldn't end up with a broken FAT16 when I removed the USB stick. Today, I was proven wrong.
I use a USB stick to test things on a WinCE 5.0 device. I don't write anything from the app or WinCE to the stick. I just execute my app, and my app reads its settings and pictures from the stick. Today, just this order of operations broke my stick filesystem (and I have to fix it).
Is there a way to tell WinCE 5.0 to unmount the stick before I remove it? It sees it as a "Hard Drive", and the tap-and-hold menu has nothing along the lines of "safely remove drive".
I'm happy with both code to do this operation and some trick that I didn't find in Windows CE yet. Thank you.
You can probably disable paging and disable caching for the store using the FAT File System registry entries. Performance is, obviously, going to suffer.
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I've looked around a lot at many people's different questions and can't find one that is the same situation as the problem I'm having. Essentially a friend brought me an old PC of theirs with the request that there are some files they want taken off the hard drive. Unfortunately, their version of Windows had corrupted, so my solution was to boot Ubuntu from a USB drive without affecting the hard drive, to access the files and then the computer is going to scrap anyway. Unfortunately, as soon as the ubuntu software starts to load the lights on the keyboard and mouse turn off and when I eventually get to the option of 'Try Ubuntu', neither are responsive. I've tried restarting, I've tried different ports, I've tried unplugging and plugging back in, I've tried a different keyboard and mouse but I cannot find a solution. I installed the latest version of ubuntu from their website. I can use the keyboard in the BIOS settings etc. Anyone know what is happening? All help is greatly appreciated.
Long story short, windows 10 is utterly broken on my laptop after it automatically installed some updates. It's now stuck in a loop which always ends up saying "Undoing changes made to your computer"
I can't get into the BIOS.
I can't get into the Windows Recovery Environment.
Been talking to MS support for far too long so far, so I'm wondering if it's possible to add it as a secondary disk drive to another machine that does work, and manually remove any updates that were installed directly through the filesystem?
The only solution MS were willing to offer was to format the whole drive and re-install windows.
When I moved the HDD into a working windows 7 machine it actually prompted a chkdsk to run over the disk.
It found a whole load of orphaned files, not sure if that was really the cause, but after backing up as many files as I had access to, I put the drive back into the other machine and now it boots.
tl;dr, chkdsk fixed it.
I was stuck in this loop last night
machine configuration : Dell Inspiron
windows 10 (original)
What the one thing you can do is to use an application name Dell usb recovery tool. You will have to format you whole computer be it c:// or any other. You will need an extra hard drive to make a backup.
the process goes like this.
You will have to install the above application on other computer and open it and fill your service tag and make that pen drive bootable with that application.
Now plug in that pen drive to the laptop.
Go for troubleshoot.
Repair.
Install new original os.
It will ask for backup make a backup to other HDD.
Install and recover your backup.
I am looking for a way to store a script on a USB flash drive that will be executed she the device is inserted in a computer.
It should be a script that keep the files on my USB key up to date with their source on the web.
I have identified two main issues :
Security issue
Platform agnostic issue: may be easily solved by a test of the platform
Can anyone give me a hint for my research?
Thanks
That is impossible on the newer versions on windows. But you could try something like a bad usb, it's a usb that you can program to act like a keyboard, try looking it up and see if it is something you can use. If you think it can be used you can create it your self or buy one, if you choose to buy i would recommend either a rubber ducky or a malduino.
Hope it helps ;)
I installed linux debian as a 2nd system and it works fine, however when I choose Windows in loader(lilo) to boot, it stops on a windows logo.
I tried to boot in safe mode, and it stops on classpnp.sys driver.
I'm not sure whether the problem is in classpnp or in some other driver which is failed to load after it.
I also tried to boot with bootlog (ntbtlog), however it is not created (I check C:\Windows).
It seems like smth is wrong with hard drive configuration with several partitions.
I've googled a lot of similiar issues with classpnp.sys, but none of the solutions helped:
-I tried to change bios SATA coniguration from IDE to AHCI,
-restore backup configuration files (SAM, DEFAULT, SECURITY etc).
If anyone knows what else can I do with this, please help.
This belongs on super user, but you need to press F8 and select safe mode. There you can fix your problems
I'm looking for a really really small linux distribution or process of making my own that's sole purpose is to get an air application to launch full screen and stay there; Essentially I'm building a home kitchen computer that runs entirely as an AIR app.
I have looked into using windows xp; and windows xp embedded but they pose so many issues I figured I'd try modern linux.
I have also seen TinyCore Linux which looks interestingly small but not sure what issues that poses in regards to running AIR and "hardware" accelerated display. I've also thought about stripping down an Ubuntu installation but I'm sure somebody must have done this already; google is just failing me right now...
I'm also interested in running an "embedded" version of say android and running the air app on some arm-based hardware again; with just the AIR runtimes only - although this is less preferred as it's more complex.
I'm also hooking this up to a touch screen monitor (not yet arrived) so I'll need to hunt down or write some drivers for translating the touch events into something AIR can understand... (this was my main intention for using windows in that all the drivers will just work).
What I'm after
Minified Linux kernel with JUST the drivers for the box I need
X Display with accelerated graphics support (Doesn't have to be X if AIR can run on a frame buffer?)
Running a Full screen AIR application (simple enough)
Ability to write back to the filesystem (enough support for AIR)
SSH Access for remote control
Samba for updating the filesystem (easier to maintain the system)
Touch screen support (3M Ex III I think...)
Audio support
Don't need
Don't need any window manager or any other GUI tools unless required by AIR
Don't need any toolbars or file managers or anything; The AIR app is the "OS"
Don't need any package managers or repos
Don't need multi user or logging in; everything can just run as an unprivileged account
Don't need to
I don't mind hand crafting the filesystem and configs if that makes it easier; I'm mainly looking for a "filesystem" that is as tiny as possible that I can just plop my AIR app into and write some scripts to get it to start when the X server starts
Thanks,
Chris
Try an embedded Linux build system such as Buildroot. It can build an entire system from source, and be very lightweight. The basic system is less than 1 MB in size.
Ended up going with Tiny Core. Very tiny and quick to boot up. You can also write extensions for it and you don't have a persistent drive which allows you to just switch the thing off without worry that it's going to break something -- exactly what you need in a kitchen :-D.
My current plan is to:
Just set up a working version using Ubuntu as this is mostly supported by Adobe
Slowly strip it back and try and get as little things to start as possible on boot
Try building my own distro/package from source and selecting only the packages I need
Compile my own kernel with nearly everything turned off and just leave on the things I need