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Some background is in this thread. I've started a new thread because the problem "has moved on" so to speak.
I have an XP Pro PC, ASUS A8N-SLI mobo, Athlon 64 single core 2.2GHz, 2GB DDR-400 RAM, two HDDs, each 250GB ( C: & D: ) and two optical drives, one a generic DVD reader, one a Sony DRU-500A. I am trying to convert it to a dual boot, XP Pro and Linux Mint machine.
Purpose:
1. To read Dish EHDs and produce printouts of the titles and perhaps descriptions, perhaps by outputting a file in a format readable by Excel, which would then do the sorting, etc.
2. To get back to fiddling with Linux again, and get back into a little programming (Free Pascal to start with).
With some fiddling (disconnect generic DVD & just use the Sony), I am able to boot from the DVD and enter Linux Mint (slowly) and start the conversion process. First, I get:
Selecting dual, I get:
I went with that, and get:
And so then I get:
Double ungood. So I went ahead anyway and got:
Which went nowhere. I repeated the process and fiddled with the partitions, as below:
Which went nowhere. No joy. So I looked up the Windows Dynamic Disk bit, learned a bit, and it basically comes down to two options:
1. Try to convert from dynamic to basic using THIS as discussed HERE as (cut to the chase) option 3.
2. Not bother with the above, and just convert the entire PC to Linux and abandon the XP Pro side ( "replace" or "something else" ). Haven't used it in years, what I needed was moved off long ago, only thing I forgot to do was copy a floppy to a CD, but that can still be done.
Not sure if option 1 would even work on my particular setup. Heck, I'm not even sure option 2 would work. It would seem I have nothing but time to lose to try option 1, but perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me can explain.
Or is there another option?
I have an XP Pro PC, ASUS A8N-SLI mobo, Athlon 64 single core 2.2GHz, 2GB DDR-400 RAM, two HDDs, each 250GB ( C: & D: ) and two optical drives, one a generic DVD reader, one a Sony DRU-500A. I am trying to convert it to a dual boot, XP Pro and Linux Mint machine.
Purpose:
1. To read Dish EHDs and produce printouts of the titles and perhaps descriptions, perhaps by outputting a file in a format readable by Excel, which would then do the sorting, etc.
2. To get back to fiddling with Linux again, and get back into a little programming (Free Pascal to start with).
With some fiddling (disconnect generic DVD & just use the Sony), I am able to boot from the DVD and enter Linux Mint (slowly) and start the conversion process. First, I get:
Selecting dual, I get:
I went with that, and get:
And so then I get:
Double ungood. So I went ahead anyway and got:
Which went nowhere. I repeated the process and fiddled with the partitions, as below:
Which went nowhere. No joy. So I looked up the Windows Dynamic Disk bit, learned a bit, and it basically comes down to two options:
1. Try to convert from dynamic to basic using THIS as discussed HERE as (cut to the chase) option 3.
2. Not bother with the above, and just convert the entire PC to Linux and abandon the XP Pro side ( "replace" or "something else" ). Haven't used it in years, what I needed was moved off long ago, only thing I forgot to do was copy a floppy to a CD, but that can still be done.
Not sure if option 1 would even work on my particular setup. Heck, I'm not even sure option 2 would work. It would seem I have nothing but time to lose to try option 1, but perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me can explain.
Or is there another option?
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And I saved it from W8! 
Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!
OK, I tried the demo of AOMEI Dynamic Disk converter and learned to save my $30 (the demo does nothing but demonstrate how easy it is, you must PAY to actually complete the job). It did not give the option of converting the C: drive to basic. I'm not surprised, IIRC that HDD is too large for basic in the first place. Playing around with partition sizes is impractical. So I hooked up a 120GB SATA that was installed in the PC that I had forgotten about. WOW! It had backups from a PC of about 15 years ago, an AMD K6. I must have moved that backup set from HDD to HDD until it ended up on a SATA. Anyway, no point in just converting D: (the second IDE HDD), I suppose. Well, I supposed wrong, but it was unnecessary and I saved my $30 anyway. I am determined to do this on the cheap.
The mobo BIOS is ver 1001, WAY obsolete (I learned to disable "full screen" on bootup so I could read -quickly- the BIOS ver), but it recognized the SATA drive. XP, however, did not. Not even under Manage under Computer, just flat invisible. No problem, I booted up under the Linux Mint DVD, and Mint saw it. So I'm now installing Linux Mint on the SATA drive, repartitioning it to give Mint 70.1GB and be dual boot. This, according to the screen, will take quite some time.
Well, it would not repartition the SATA drive- Dynamic disk, again. So I tried with the default partitioning (46GB), as a "just in case it works anyway." Of course, it did not.
So I exited the program, copied a directory of old pictures from the SATA to D: as a test (WXP directory moved by Linux). Turned out to be a large directory, 18GB and Linux is telling me about 15 minutes to complete. I'd say it took about 5 minutes. I then restarted the process to install Linux Mint. I selected "Something Else" in order to mess with the SATA drive, EXT4, swap space of 30GB, root in the 90GB.
Took about an hour to do the partitioning. Then I had to go back and specify the \ as being at the beginning of the 90GB partition, and pick my time zone, password and computer name (best to just use your 2 initials, I found).
Then it started a nice little slide show while installing. Banshee for music (not familiar with) and VLC for video/DVD, which I hear has a good rep. gThumb and Picasa for photos. And of course there's Thunderbird for email, which I do not plan on using, and LibreOffice to replace MS Office. It's a version of Open Office. Skype, WINE and other s/w is included.
They claim Linux Mint is the fourth most widely used operating system in the world.
COMPLETION
Anyway, after it was done, I discovered I could no longer boot to XP anyway, even though it is a separate HDD. I might test it later by removing the SATA drive and see what happens.
So I went into SETUP and changed the hard drive configuration to where the SATA was the first in the list of HDDs. And restarted. Works like a charm. I now have a "Welcome to Linux Mint" dialog box on my screen.
So I plugged in a Dish EHD and - IT WORKS! Perfectly visible.
Now to download and install Pascal and then the work begins!
Any questions/requests?
OK, I tried the demo of AOMEI Dynamic Disk converter and learned to save my $30 (the demo does nothing but demonstrate how easy it is, you must PAY to actually complete the job). It did not give the option of converting the C: drive to basic. I'm not surprised, IIRC that HDD is too large for basic in the first place. Playing around with partition sizes is impractical. So I hooked up a 120GB SATA that was installed in the PC that I had forgotten about. WOW! It had backups from a PC of about 15 years ago, an AMD K6. I must have moved that backup set from HDD to HDD until it ended up on a SATA. Anyway, no point in just converting D: (the second IDE HDD), I suppose. Well, I supposed wrong, but it was unnecessary and I saved my $30 anyway. I am determined to do this on the cheap.
The mobo BIOS is ver 1001, WAY obsolete (I learned to disable "full screen" on bootup so I could read -quickly- the BIOS ver), but it recognized the SATA drive. XP, however, did not. Not even under Manage under Computer, just flat invisible. No problem, I booted up under the Linux Mint DVD, and Mint saw it. So I'm now installing Linux Mint on the SATA drive, repartitioning it to give Mint 70.1GB and be dual boot. This, according to the screen, will take quite some time.
Well, it would not repartition the SATA drive- Dynamic disk, again. So I tried with the default partitioning (46GB), as a "just in case it works anyway." Of course, it did not.
So I exited the program, copied a directory of old pictures from the SATA to D: as a test (WXP directory moved by Linux). Turned out to be a large directory, 18GB and Linux is telling me about 15 minutes to complete. I'd say it took about 5 minutes. I then restarted the process to install Linux Mint. I selected "Something Else" in order to mess with the SATA drive, EXT4, swap space of 30GB, root in the 90GB.
Took about an hour to do the partitioning. Then I had to go back and specify the \ as being at the beginning of the 90GB partition, and pick my time zone, password and computer name (best to just use your 2 initials, I found).
Then it started a nice little slide show while installing. Banshee for music (not familiar with) and VLC for video/DVD, which I hear has a good rep. gThumb and Picasa for photos. And of course there's Thunderbird for email, which I do not plan on using, and LibreOffice to replace MS Office. It's a version of Open Office. Skype, WINE and other s/w is included.
They claim Linux Mint is the fourth most widely used operating system in the world.
COMPLETION
Anyway, after it was done, I discovered I could no longer boot to XP anyway, even though it is a separate HDD. I might test it later by removing the SATA drive and see what happens.
So I went into SETUP and changed the hard drive configuration to where the SATA was the first in the list of HDDs. And restarted. Works like a charm. I now have a "Welcome to Linux Mint" dialog box on my screen.
So I plugged in a Dish EHD and - IT WORKS! Perfectly visible.
Now to download and install Pascal and then the work begins!
Any questions/requests?
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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This thread is a place to discuss the 4K events that appear on channel 540. We are getting, at this point, one college football game a week. Let's hope there is more coming.
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Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
As I recall you have the Flex package. Do you sub to multisport? -02 is FS1 and -03 is ESPN. -01 is Fox so you would get that if you sub to locals.Hmmm, I'm not seeing anything like those events in our Hopper 3 guide for tonight or Saturday.
I went into the Tools menu and requested a Guide Update. I'll try looking at it after the update completes.
edit — I now have the 148-01 4KFox events for Saturday, but not anything for 148-02 or 148-03 which don't even show as available channels. I do have 148-04 4KUSA.
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On Tuesday, I recorded the first episodes of the new season's NCIS shows on CBS (Dish provided, not OTA). The new New York series and Origins will both do Auto Skip, but the original, now season 24 does not. What's stranger, when I do a search for NCIS, Origins and New York show the current recording and the next episode it will record, but the original show only shows the current recording and some other channel showing the very first episode of season one. It makes no sense. When I set up the timers, I was able to use search for Origins and New York, but for the original, I had to scroll ahead in the guide until last Tuesday when the show was airing. Then set the timer from there. You can see its timer type is DVR where the other two are Seek. What am I missing?
Thanks!
Thanks!
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
As I said above, and, FWIW, I run Win11 Pro and Arch on separate 250 GB NVME drives, using F8 to select which I boot to, with a 1TB SSD for storage, accessible to both OSs and a third formatted Nvme I want to use to learn Kali. It was much faster to setup Arch than it was to strip down Windows. Windows still takes much longer to boot.
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Hard getting used to the new younger Gibbs, Mark Harmons son had the right look but I understand he didn't want the role.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
Still I'm enjoying, pretty good job with Franks.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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Still the same number of years, just more Sunsets…Wouldn't we then die of old age sooner?
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Starting a thread klang !
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
After an amazing first 2 seasons and an 8 episode 3rd season still coming this year, season 4 has now been greenlit.
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One episode into season 4 that dropped today...
