I have two Special prototype handheld's with different firmware and software but the hardware's identical, is there away to make a backup of the internal drive to be used as a backup and flash onto both systems. Is there away to do a full system backup and recovery install?
They are prototypes that have been discontinued and sold. I would like to make a backup of the internals before playing around with the hardware. They are running Windows CE 4.2 (so windows mobile 2003 SE)
I was able to get them to boot and they run like normal. definitely the most unique windows handheld ever made.
Of course no manufacture support is available for this device. Basically they don't exist outside the military. Now sold as surplus.
I will update with Specs and Pics
CPU: XScale PXA255 400 Mhz
SD Ram: 90 MB
2 Drives: 1 Flash and 1 SD Ram drive
OS: Windows CE 4.2
Communication: PCMCIA Mesh Network Cards
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Have you guys seen this?
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4785.html
Lucky Eten owners, *&%$^$ HTC :x
Why is it that there are different roms for all the different phones? On pc you can install Windows on any hardware.
First of all, if you noticed the Storage on Mini/JAM/MDA Compact/Magician, you only get a paltry 7MB....7MB out of 64MB!! what the?
WM5.0 uses persistent storage so nothing can stored in the 64MB RAM unlike the current WM2003 devices.
If you look at the current HTC WM5.0 devices like Dopod 818 Pro, out of the 128MB ROM, you get only 35-40MB storage space.
So you do the math, after Mini gets upgraded to WM5.0, how much storage do you get?
-- someone mentioned "what about BigStorage?" you get a total of 27MB after upgrade.
BigStorage is NOT supported by your device maufacturer. In fact, it automatically voids whatever warranty you have left on your device. So BigStorage does not come into consideration at all.
I've had my Toshiba Satellite C660-15R since 2010 and I'm not sure if it's time to replace the 320GB Hitachi 10080PBN200CSHPN HDD that was Installed by Toshiba, as Ubuntu Linux says the HDD has 1 Bad Sector back when I was using Ubuntu, but using Segate Sea Tools for Windows its passed all tests.
I'm unsure if it would be wise to replace the HDD based on its age, or stick with it due to the test results from Sea Tools for Windows?
Roland
Id say keep it, 1 bad sector equates to a negligible amount of data (handful of Mb) and isn't necessarily an indicator that the disk is dying, it could have just been scratched if the laptop moved during a write operation ir anything.
It may fail soon, it may not, I have an 80gb drive as a secondary in my desktop which is date stamped as 2003, my old laptops first hard drive lasted just 2 years.
Only reason I would swap the laptop in that machine if the disk is still working is as an upgrade to a bigger size or an SSD or something and that may not even be required
SixSixSevenSeven said:
Id say keep it, 1 bad sector equates to a negligible amount of data (handful of Mb) and isn't necessarily an indicator that the disk is dying, it could have just been scratched if the laptop moved during a write operation ir anything.
It may fail soon, it may not, I have an 80gb drive as a secondary in my desktop which is date stamped as 2003, my old laptops first hard drive lasted just 2 years.
Only reason I would swap the laptop in that machine if the disk is still working is as an upgrade to a bigger size or an SSD or something and that may not even be required
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Ok thanks.
I've swapped it out for a 1TB HDD, since I've been upgrading the Wifi Card and adding a new battery when it arrives, going to use the old drive in a USB caddy attached to the Router as a backup drive.land
It's also given me a reason to have a fresh start and sort out what needs to be on my HDD and what can go on the Network drive.
Ro
admin kindly delete this thread, it was erroneously reposted
thanks
INTRODUCTION
Losing vital documents is one of the most painful ordeal someone could go through in life. It is even worse if the data belong to a third party. Yet it is unimaginable if it belong to the organization where one works.
I once lost very vital documents and accused someone wrongly due to fake memory card. This led to this research with the aim to serve as a guide on how to separate the good from the bad memory cards.
OMOROGHOMWAN'S INTEGRITY TESTS PROCEDURE FOR DATA STORAGE DEVICES
Insert your portable memory device into a computer or phone to see the usable space.
Let the usable (writable) memory be Y.
lt is a known fact that this value is always less than the specified size. This is due to the fact that the memory device will need some of the memory space for its internal operations (this is its read only memory - ROM).
Let the specified Memory size be X
IF X/1.024≈Y - - - - - 1
THEN the data storage device is fake.
On the other hand;
IF X/1.083≈Y - - - - - 2
THEN the data storage device is original.
Combination of equations 1 and 2 is known as Omoroghomwan's Hard Drive Integrity Tests.
FIELD SAMPLES
Table 1. below shows the relative differences in the writable memories of fake and authentic memory devices.
Table l. Authentic and fake data storage device capacities.
S/N Specified Authentic Writable Authentic Fake Writable Memory,
Memory, X (GB) Memory, Ya(GB) (X/1.083) Memory Disk Samples (GB) Yf (GB) (X/1.024)
1 1 0.923 0.93, 0.9476 0.98
2 2 1.846 1.8817, 1.876, 1.8 1.95
3 4 3.693 3.6, 3.7 3.9
4 8 7.386 7.27, 7.38 7.8
5 16 14.773 14.83 15.6
6 32 29.547 29.5 31.3
7 64 59.095 59.45 62.5
CONCLUSION
It is no longer news that the market is already contaminated with fake memory cards and flash drives carrying false data sizes. We are better equipped to avoid the trauma that follows such harrowing experience with the information in this write up.
RECOMMENDATIONS
From experience, it has been observed that memory devices of higher capacities (from 8GB) are more prone to counterfeiting. It is therefore recommended that any buyer of such should be vigilant and perform the outlined tests at the point of purchase either with a mobile phone or a computer in order to ascertain the integrity of the external memory device.
you may check my blog for further information in the link below
http://omoroghomwanefosaarnold.blogspot.com/2014/09/fake-memory-card-and-flash-detection.html
INTRODUCTION
Losing vital documents is one of the most painful ordeal someone could go through in life. It is even worse if the data belong to a third party. Yet it is unimaginable if it belong to the organization where one works.
I once lost very vital documents and accused someone wrongly due to fake memory card. This led to this research with the aim to serve as a guide on how to separate the good from the bad memory cards.
OMOROGHOMWAN'S INTEGRITY TESTS PROCEDURE FOR DATA STORAGE DEVICES
Insert your portable memory device into a computer or phone to see the usable space.
Let the usable (writable) memory be Y.
lt is a known fact that this value is always less than the specified size. This is due to the fact that the memory device will need some of the memory space for its internal operations (this is its read only memory - ROM).
Let the specified Memory size be X
IF X/1.024≈Y - - - - - - - - 1
THEN the data storage device is fake.
On the other hand;
IF X/1.083≈Y - - - - - - - - 2
THEN the data storage device is original.
Combination of equations 1 and 2 is known as Omoroghomwan's Hard Drive Integrity Tests.
FIELD SAMPLES
Table 1. below shows the relative differences in the writable memories of fake and authentic memory devices.
Table l. Authentic and fake data storage device capacities.
S/N Specified Authentic Writable Authentic Fake Writable Memory,
Memory, X (GB) Memory, Ya(GB) (X/1.083) Memory Disk Samples (GB) Yf (GB) (X/1.024)
1 1 0.923 0.93, 0.9476 0.98
2 2 1.846 1.8817, 1.876, 1.8 1.95
3 4 3.693 3.6, 3.7 3.9
4 8 7.386 7.27, 7.38 7.8
5 16 14.773 14.83 15.6
6 32 29.547 29.5 31.3
7 64 59.095 59.45 62.5
CONCLUSION
It is no longer news that the market is already contaminated with fake memory cards and flash drives carrying false data sizes. We are better equipped to avoid the trauma that follows such harrowing experience with the information in this write up.
RECOMMENDATIONS
From experience, it has been observed that memory devices of higher capacities (from 4GB) are more prone to counterfeiting. It is therefore recommended that any buyer of such should be vigilant and perform the outlined tests at the point of purchase either with a mobile phone or a computer in order to ascertain the integrity of the external memory device.
you may check my blog for further information on this subject
http://efosmart.blogspot.com/2014/09/fake-memory-card-and-flash-detection.html
Hey guys, just putting this out there.
Valve said that you can install any OS you want on this including windows which is better for game support. Proton is great and all but doesnt have 100% coverage.
So what this means is it probably has an accessible BIOS (maybe even cpu undervolting possible) and should let you boot from sd card. This would be great for keeping steam os on the main storage just to see how it goes and for emulators. And then any game that doesnt run properly under proton you can quickly plug in an sd card with bootable windows and play those games there.
What do you guys think if this is possible would you do it? or what other os would you install?
As seen on many SBCs (i.e. RPi, odroid...), sd-card booting is rather slow.
You Do not want that for a Windows-Installation.
My guess is that they wanted to make thing as cheap as possible. A Windows 10 license adds somewhat $50-$100 to the pricetag. Plus they would have to certify the steamdeck for Windows.... Also adds costs, time and maybe IT is not possible at all.
I'd rather go with swapping PCIe-SSDs. Although that might void the warranty.
I agree, I think sd card booting will be slow. But, it's not impossible. Think, booting Ubuntu with a CD. It's slow to boot but once booted mostly everything is in memory and pretty quick.
Ssd... usb... same ole...
My ole elite book 820 1st version, is a corporate laptop, more open than oems, I5 is rapid, 256 pcie used for (broken)wan, wiped giving me a 250 c drive, sata filled with 250gig of fruity midi and softsynths, when hooked up to my studio, best sounds where i live lol, no lag, latency pretty much zero, using win 7 x64 ultimate
Same speeds, usb3 speed, that's how I see it, or usb 2 most likely for most...
That's your actual hardware speed...
chip performance re: running an os, my ssd is faster than the old ones with moving part's... ssd loses files, the old ones we could find easier... with rstudio etc..
Think about it... your ssd is using usb (most likely 3) to transfer through the usb bus...
And if memory serves me correctly, ssd's can only handle on average 200,000,000 read write's, now what does all this mountin partitions do?
Wear the heck out of those rw
ssd all the way.... the frequencies are the key to speed
i wish they would have put a usb A port on the device and that they would have planned for easier replacement of SSD.