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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 15:29:49 -0600
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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....

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