DCLaw1 @ 4:26PM.

Pour favour- Empty the ice-box of all left-over green beans, sauerkraut, mildewed-brownies, old-fish-halibut-chowder, bean-sprouts, walnuts, slimy-okra, and have a real good Born Appetite.

Also: A good soft evacuation of the intestinal track will automatically happen, involuntarily, if you take a walk while you are simmering: barley, wheat, oats, brown-rice (not condi), sunflower seeds (not susan), buckwheat, flax, sesame, millet hulls...so sesame who?

If a lawyer has the audacity to doubt laypeople veracity, and if hillbillies are too pugnacious for DOJ's and FISA's warrant-less arrogance, well, let's try to explin the Necessity of eating slowly more green baby bib-heart (Jefferson's favorite bib-lettuce. Know, the tender,but crispy, Deer Tongue green herb will calm the Bowell-gas potential eruption-explosion. huh) lactuca.

Honest. sip lemmon balm tea.

Congress will sell a bill of bad-poison-"goods". Remember the 60's Mr. Natural?

Oh, Shit. Oh, NO!

No, constipation, and no capitulation. Put a left-over green lime peel in Gin? It can't hurt? People get clogged plumbing constipation. We'll be living in the shadow of Tassers, swords, and see decapitations, Next? I hope not. You too? Nevermind.

In the old days, the well-to-do had in-door double-shutter's. A rich cat didn't want to go outside to bury scat, soho, a inside the upper-story house, the architect was ordered as a contracted worker, to hammer and built a room called, "THE NECESSITY ROOM.

It was "A Place" to write [stink] GOP policy? Farmers called the room a inside "Poop Place." Tap foot? Stupid. I say, Yep.

Anyway: If I had some way to deliver some Buttermilk Pancakes with legal-love, some of us readers would enjoy breakfast together? I wish you anti-war-critters some sticky tons of some great laxative instead. I still get nauseated at the 'word' Lawyer! SO- have a bowl of a TON of cereal barley and just warm-up some buns or pour the gooey Sirop d'erable pur de Nouvelle Ecosse...on Grains. Chew with mouths closed.

Hope you feel better. I heard a sloth person can die with 60 pounds of inner coagulated shit. Gads. That's as much weight as a stinky Halibut (not haliburton) fish. My friend Michele still has not found HELP to fix her outhouse. A neighbor lent her a million dollar lawn mower. The rich folks toys don't turn on a dime like a push-mower. DCLaw1: You know, or are you licenced, to fix knocked-over Outhouses?

PS/BS- No kidding. I also miss the Librarian. There is a simple solution to all our predicaments. Yep. hey, They are short, simple, and wrong. It's complicated for damn sure? Yes.

Right. Nature might have said: No mush. No poop indoors in the Capital Hill hallways? Why? 'Cause we doubt for good reason.

NOTHIN' will grow? Filthy/Sterile? They don't mean shit if they do not respect and represent the good common (sense) people.

No go to the politico's Powder Room on the lower or upper floor. That's what I am thinking: Put the heart in the proper Place and NO allow the human heart vessel to become a bile-clogged poo-per-place.

O, let's finance upper level porches to piss off our steam, and NO fall over the banister rail while railing? huh. O, DCLaw1, do you chink old log cabins on weekends? You need to get out of DC or you will feel and act chained up or all stuck up in a DC2Dog Kennel? Maybe. You may become too copious and ramble at court and bore the new Attorney General nominee. And me too, maybe, will feel bad if a new AG supports laws that we need to be afraid...SO...We need to Run and Piss and Poop at the same time while in flight down the street...?...O, watch out! ALSO: Danger: It is acorn Bump-on-Head and the Tin roof season.

Clunk.

No Junk.

Boil nuts.

In the bottom of the outhouse,

one may see the real Holy Grail.

HUMPTH.

Okay, but just to ease my conscience, stay on this thread when Glenn moves on.

No problem. I've only had a few hours of sleep and I'm fighting a damn sinus infection, but I'll be here until at least 1:00pm EST before I have to drop off to take care of a few things.

The program has the drivers, because of what it needs to do to access drives, it locks up all the USB resources, and the mouse and keyboard freeze -- it isn't expecting to have the whole system run out of USB.

Sounds like this "cloning" program didn't come with the computer, otherwise it would know and account for how the hardware is being accessed - ie via USB connections.

If I don't load the USB drivers, the program works (because then the BIOS mounts the keys and mouse), but it doesn't see the drive onto which the clone is to be built. It doesn't do SATA data (says so in the manual), but can see SATA drives (through the interrupt).

I'm not sure what is meant by the BIOS mounting the KB and mouse. Most BIOS functions are done via interrupt driven control, since they are backwards compatible with the original IBM standard. That's how DOS based systems accessed the various typical devices attached to a computer. It was known as "direct hardware access" and is why you were able to write to a drive no matter what. Windows changes all that by more or less overriding the BIOS and instead using its own drivers, locking the drive and preventing direct access to the hardware.

As for your comments on the SATA aspects of the system you noted that "it doesn't see the drive" but then you finish up with "but can see SATA drives" which is a little bit of a contradiction. I'm going to take a guess and say it's possible that the software sees the drive but can't access it due to either a size of the drive issue (DOS usually can't access drives that exceed a certain rigid partition size, based on the number of cylinders and heads) or due to the format that's on the drive. DOS systems can work with FAT, FAT16, and FAT32 (usually) but typically can't access partitions formatted with NTFS (native to first Windows NT, then 2000/XP, and now Vista) or other formats native to their respective operating-systems.

I'm waiting for their tech support to tell me he's seen this configuration before, but everybody seems to be surprised that the familiar stuff isn't there somewhere.

Honestly, it does sound like a very strange arrangement, but that doesn't really mean anything beyond we're all spoiled and expecting to see the typical hardware/software configurations.

While you are waiting to hear from a tech can you give me a few pieces of basic information?

~ Does it run Windows? If so, what flavor - ie DOS based like 95/98/ME or NT based like NT/2K/XP?

~ Can you post the make and model info of the box so I can do a little research and reading up on it?

Lastly, there are some wonderful bootable CDs out on the net. Like:

~ HiRens Boot CD

~ The Ultimate Boot CD

These might allow for accessing the system and running some diagnostics and possibly even cloning programs that will allow you to get a sector-by-sector copy of the drive for safe keeping.

There are also other win32 based disks/apps that use a stripped down version of Windows XP but I don't think those will work since you now can't access the drive with what I'm assuming is windows.

HTH