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Use a friend's or family member's card that trusts you. It should go without saying, but ask them first.

Alright, I looked over your code again and it looks like you're not chainloading some of them. On the ones that you are chainloading but still don't work, try adding "+1" directly after the virtual drive, so it would look something like "(hd32)+1"

Hmm, well some things just don't work with some computers/configurations/setups/whatever and it's incredibly hard to troubleshoot something when you have no idea why it's not working.

Looks promising, plus you can make it a floppy image which means you should be able to just load the floppy image into memory and boot like that. You'll have to edit some scripts and configs to automate the process.

There should be a line above the error.

The command that generates the error is printed above the error code and description; what is the command?

A Linux distribution made specifically to mount all NTFS/FAT32 drives, find the SAM file, and save it back to the flash drive could potentially boot and complete within a few seconds. You would need minimal drivers and programs other than for IDE, SATA, NTFS, FAT, etc. I've seen NTFS support for DOS but it was it's own program, not a driver, which means you wouldn't be able to automate it like we'd like. I feel that a Linux distro made specifically for this task would be the best way to go.

I've thought about this myself before. I think it would be much easier to boot a minimal linux kernel and write a script that would mount all NTFS hard drives, search them for the SAM file, and then copy and save it to your flash drive. I'm not sure I'd be able to do something like this myself, but if anybody else would like to take a shot at it, that would be cool. Maybe somebody could start on it and we could all contribute any knowledge about the subject to the development?

I finally wrote up the Ophcrack tutorial. Now I'll mess with Back|Track 4 PreFinal and post that guide

Alright, so, this guide will help all you who would rather keep everything as neat as possible. After excessive googling and frustration/confusion, I've successfully changed the directory that Ophcrack tries to find the tables in by default. NOTE: You will need some type of writable media, which means you can't do this by booting from your flash drive and then writing to that same flash drive because Ophcrack mounts it as read-only by default. You could, however, boot Ophcrack from your flash drive, unmount your hard drive, remount your hard drive as writable, and then write the modified rootfs.gz to your hard drive. Key: commands - type this into the terminal windows and press "Enter" Changing the default directory: 01. Boot into Ophcrack from either a VM, a CD, or a flash drive. 02. Close Ophcrack and any terminal windows it leaves open. 03. Start a new terminal. (Right-click > Favorite Applications > Terminal) 04. su and the password is "root" 05. mkdir temp 06. find / | grep rootfs.gz 07. Take what the above command's output and input it where "(rootfs.gz location)" appears in the next command. 08. cp (rootfs.gz location) rootfs.gz 09. lzma d rootfs.gz rootfs 10. cd temp 11. cpio -di < ../rootfs 12. leafpad etc/skel/launch.sh 13. Press Ctrl+f and type in "# Try" (This is the area of the launch.sh script that does everything to start Ophcrack automatically.) 14. Scroll down a few lines until you see "if [ -d /mnt/$DEVICES/tables ]; then" 15. Replace "/mnt/$DEVICES/tables" with "/mnt/$DEVICES/path/to/your/tables" (path/to/your/tables = whatever the path to your tables is) 16. Do the same with "/mnt/$DEVICE/tables/*/table0.bin" found on the next line, except keep "/*/table0.bin" so it would look something like "/mnt/$DEVICE/path/to/your/tables/*/table0.bin" 17. Double-check everything cuz it's easier and faster to get it right the first time. 18. Save (Ctrl+s) 19. find . | cpio -oH newc | lzma e -si /rootfs.gz (Yes, this will take a while. No, it didn't freeze.) 20. Now just copy "/rootfs.gz" to Ophcrack's boot directory. You might want to rename the original "rootfs.gz" to something like "rootfs.gz.bak" so you have a backup, and you won't have to modify your menu. If you booted from the flash drive you'd like to modify, save "/rootfs.gz" to some other media, as Ophcrack mounts the flash drive as read-only. There you have it. Next to come: Modifying Back|Track 4 PreFinal to change the default "casper" directory

What happens when you try to boot Hiren's on your computer? What happens when you try to boot DSL on campus computers? Are you getting any errors? If so, what are they?

It sounds like you may have booted the VM with another USB medium inserted. VMware auto-connects the last used USB device when it's set to auto-connect a USB drive. You can try to connect it manually: VMware Player: 1. Boot the VM 2. Go to "Devices" found at the top of the window 3. Find and select your flash drive from the menu 4. Click "Connect (Disconnect from host)" VMware Workstation: 1. Boot the VM 2. Go to "VM" found at the top of the window 3. Browse to "Removable Devices" 4. Find and select your flash drive 5. Click "Connect (Disconnect from host)"

My friend had a problem with bad sectors/indices on his XP partition. He tried booting BackTrack but it gave the "run chkdsk on Windows before I can mount this drive safely" error. I tried force mounting it, but got a Device I/O error. I brought over a HDD that I had XP installed on and as soon as it booted it ran chkdsk on the HDD itself, fixing all the problems and restoring his drive to normal within a few minutes (500GB drive). You might wanna try a PE. I think BartPE includes chkdsk automatically.

jdogherman, it would be great if you could edit your original post with the link to the google doc dor.on started so people won't have to search for it in this thread, it'll just be in the first post.

What? I think we've got a misunderstanding. If someone can post a tutorial on getting SARDU to boot from GRUB4DOS, or Grub2, like we do with everything else on the Multipass, I will post it in the Read Me sticky.

Ahh, thanks :) what I read said they were still waiting on Windows 7 support in the next release. I didn't check the date though :/

Anybody know of a Sandboxie alternative? It doesn't play well with the way privileges work in Windows 7, so nothing can be ran sandboxed. I use it for liability-unknown/downloaded content, as well as making changes to settings to see how the program will behave, but now that I've installed Windows 7, I can't use Sandboxie. Yes, I've checked out Returnil, but it requires a whole reboot, whereas I'd rather just right-click, "Run Sandboxed" or something similar.

Apologies for not getting that all done within the time frame i gave myself. I've just been quite busy with school, but I'll get it done. I haven't messed around with BT4 because I wasn't sure how I should write up the Ophcrack tutorial since keeping the flash drive as writable could potentially screw it up bad, as well as diminish the life of your flash drive MUCH faster the normal use. I think I'll post the Ophcrack tutorial on how to change the default directory to find the tables in without making the drive writable. Then I'll get the BT4 one done.

When I want privacy, I sit in the bathroom.

What OS are you using?

Have fun using that defense against Microsoft! They don't allow you to download Windows XP without out buying it, do they? So why would this not be illegal? Downloading something you're supposed to buy is illegal, even if the key isn't provided. And, I thought you figured out why it wasn't booting? Try connecting it manually

So, before you boot, menu.lst is fine, but after you boot it becomes corrupt?

It would be warez to distribute any Windows OS with the VM. Just install it yourself. The VM can expand to 8GB which is more than enough for Windows XP.

So loading syslinux from GRUB4DOS should work? If somebody can write a tutorial or something that would be great so I can post it in the readme.

Ettercap-NG, 'nuff said.