[dencorso]

Bug: CDFS DVD Appears to be 2,147,450,880 Bytes if the True Size is Over 2 GiB, *Solved at Last*!

This Win 9x/ME bug has been with us since the begining and Microsoft never took the time to fix it: there is no official hotfix for it and it's not even mentioned in MSKB. If you don't know what I'm talking about, just put any CDFS DVD having more than 2 GiB data into your DVD drive and, after the drive becomes ready, go to Windows Explorer, highlight that drive, right-click on the Properties tab and look at the reported DVD size. But the issue is not limited to Windows Explorer, you can see it in Total Commander, too... in fact any program using the GetDiskFreeSpaceEX API will display the same bug. Last year, Drugwash started a sub-thread about it, inside the 98SE2ME thread, and we discussed it in depth (to read it all, start at posts #923-931, then proceed through #940-948 to posts #952-955). These posts led RLoew to devise a patch, which he decided to release as freeware (many thanks, you rock! ), which fixes that bug for good. And the patcher he created for applying the patch is an inteligent one, able to recognize and patch correctly CDFS.VXD v. 4.10.1998; v. 4.10.1999; v. 4.90.3000; v. 4.90.3001 and v. 4.90.3002! So all possible variants for Win 98FE, Win 98SE and Win ME are covered by his patch. At that point, Drugwash and RetroOS (thanks to both of you, too, you rock! ) agreed to join me in testing the experimental patch for three months, and we found out it works perfectly and is harmless to the system. Now RLoew has released it, so it's available for all!
To get it, go to RLoew's Homepage, then to the "Prerelease and Beta Software" page, and there you'll find the CDFS Patch download link. After downloading the package, unzip it and follow intructions in the Readme.txt to apply the patch. One more Win 98/ME bug bites the ground!

[Drugwash]

Yep, Mr. Loew's patch has done a good job on my system; I can now see the true size of any CDFS DVD media, while previously it was quite frustrating to see almost all DVDs as invariably 2GB in size.

To check whether the patch has produced the desired result, I have created a small utility to be run before and after applying the patch, with CDFS-burned DVD media inserted in your DVD drive(s). It will automatically select the first optical drive and display the size of the inserted media; however, do select the appropriate drive manually if first optical drive is not a DVD drive or the media was inserted in another drive.

The utility has been written in AutoHotkey and automatically compressed with UPX by the AHK packer; if you get any anti-virus warning, it is a false one due to the UPX compression. The source code can be found inside the 7-zip archive, for those who do not trust the compiled executable (also found in the archive). Enjoy!

Download Drive Capacity Test 1.6

Thank you dencorso and Mr. Loew for your trust!

[Philco]

Drugwash, on Jul 5 2009, 06:37 AM, said:

Yep, Mr. Loew's patch has done a good job on my system; I can now see the true size of any CDFS DVD media, while previously it was quite frustrating to see almost all DVDs as invariably 2GB in size
...
Thank you dencorso and Mr. Loew for your trust!

Yes, verify in Total Commander size DVD: 4GB, no 2GB...
Very thx, rloew!

This post has been edited by Philco: 18 July 2009 - 05:04 AM

[erpdude8]

dencorso, on Jul 4 2009, 05:05 AM, said:

Bug: CDFS DVD Appears to be 2,147,450,880 Bytes if the True Size is Over 2 GiB, *Solved at Last*!

This Win 9x/ME bug has been with us since the begining and Microsoft never took the time to fix it: there is no official hotfix for it and it's not even mentioned in MSKB. If you don't know what I'm talking about, just put any CDFS DVD having more than 2 GiB data into your DVD drive and, after the drive becomes ready, go to Windows Explorer, highlight that drive, right-click on the Properties tab and look at the reported DVD size. But the issue is not limited to Windows Explorer, you can see it in Total Commander, too... in fact any program using the GetDiskFreeSpaceEX API will display the same bug. Last year, Drugwash started a sub-thread about it, inside the 98SE2ME thread, and we discussed it in depth (to read it all, start at posts #923-931, then proceed through #940-948 to posts #952-955). These posts led RLoew to devise a patch, which he decided to release as freeware (many thanks, you rock! ), which fixes that bug for good. And the patcher he created for applying the patch is an inteligent one, able to recognize and patch correctly CDFS.VXD v. 4.10.1998; v. 4.10.1999; v. 4.90.3000; v. 4.90.3001 and v. 4.90.3002! So all possible variants for Win 98FE, Win 98SE and Win ME are covered by his patch. At that point, Drugwash and RetroOS (thanks to both of you, too, you rock! ) agreed to join me in testing the experimental patch for three months, and we found out it works perfectly and is harmless to the system. Now RLoew has released it, so it's available for all!
To get it, go to RLoew's Homepage, then to the "Prerelease and Beta Software" page, and there you'll find the CDFS Patch download link. After downloading the package, unzip it and follow intructions in the Readme.txt to apply the patch. One more Win 98/ME bug bites the ground!

Too bad the CDFS patch rloew made won't work under Win95 (BenoitRen is gonna be disappointed). Win95 can support DVDs with the appropriate DVD hardware & latest DirectX drivers installed under W95. His patch only works with Win98/ME.

[dencorso]

erpdude8, on Jul 14 2009, 01:33 PM, said:

dencorso, on Jul 4 2009, 05:05 AM, said:

And the patcher he created for applying the patch is an inteligent one, able to recognize and patch correctly CDFS.VXD v. 4.10.1998; v. 4.10.1999; v. 4.90.3000; v. 4.90.3001 and v. 4.90.3002!

Too bad the CDFS patch rloew made won't work under Win95 (BenoitRen is gonna be disappointed). Win95 can support DVDs with the appropriate DVD hardware & latest DirectX drivers installed under W95. His patch only works with Win98/ME.

I didn't say that! I enumerated the versions it's been tested with and known to work. If you can, please test it with the appropriate CDFS.VxD from Win 95 and report. Even in case it actually doesn't work, I believe RLoew can come up with a Win 95 version. The patcher knows what to patch, I don't think it tests for version at all.

[rloew]

Quote

Too bad the CDFS patch rloew made won't work under Win95 (BenoitRen is gonna be disappointed). Win95 can support DVDs with the appropriate DVD hardware & latest DirectX drivers installed under W95. His patch only works with Win98/ME.

I don't have a Windows 95 setup so I don't run tests on it.

My Patches use Pattern recognition to make changes. This way I avoid having to Patch each possible Version.

I ran my CDFS Patch Program on the CDFS.VXD Version 4.0.1111 I extracted from a Windows 95 CD. It Patched the File without any Problems.
Since this is the oldest, it should work for the other Windows 95 Versions as well.

[lightning slinger]

lightning slinger, on Jun 25 2009, 07:25 PM, said:

bristols, on Jun 25 2009, 02:20 PM, said:

Just a note to MDGx (although he seems to have been away from these forums for a long time ):

Yes his absence from these forums is somewhat alarming, his last post was months ago now.

Having said that, it would be even more alarming if his homepage was not being updated.

Hope all is well.

Best regards,

Colin

I am beginning to get a bad feeling about this!!

Other than a short visit mid July, MDGx hasn't been seen here for a considerable length of time. I have this ever increasing worry that we may have lost MDGx to these forums.

I certainly hope not!

[erpdude8]

rloew, on Jul 14 2009, 09:01 PM, said:

Quote

Too bad the CDFS patch rloew made won't work under Win95 (BenoitRen is gonna be disappointed). Win95 can support DVDs with the appropriate DVD hardware & latest DirectX drivers installed under W95. His patch only works with Win98/ME.

I don't have a Windows 95 setup so I don't run tests on it.

My Patches use Pattern recognition to make changes. This way I avoid having to Patch each possible Version.

I ran my CDFS Patch Program on the CDFS.VXD Version 4.0.1111 I extracted from a Windows 95 CD. It Patched the File without any Problems.
Since this is the oldest, it should work for the other Windows 95 Versions as well.

can it also work with the CDFS.VXD files listed in MS Support KB article 274175, rloew?

well lightning slinger, so far MDGx hasn't been responding to my recent emails I sent to him about a bunch of new MS updates like the KB961371 (MS09-029) T2embed.dll security updates, the KB970653 Aug. 2009 Cumulative Time Zone updates, the KB973346 (MS09-032) ActiveX KillBit security updates, etc. hope he isn't "lost in space" so to speak.

This post has been edited by erpdude8: 31 August 2009 - 11:39 AM

[dencorso]

Here's some great news! I've just received an e-mail from MDGx, in which he says he's OK, just overwelmed by too much work to do. He also says he intends to be back quite soon to MSFN and mentions he received your e-mails, erpdude8, and that he means to add those updates to his site soon and post about them here, as usual.

[rloew]

erpdude8, on Aug 31 2009, 01:38 PM, said:

can it also work with the CDFS.VXD files listed in MS Support KB article 274175, rloew?

Probably.

I don't have the hotfix files to test.

If the Patch Program does not complain when Patching, it should work.

[erpdude8]

rloew, on Aug 31 2009, 03:35 PM, said:

erpdude8, on Aug 31 2009, 01:38 PM, said:

can it also work with the CDFS.VXD files listed in MS Support KB article 274175, rloew?

Probably.

I don't have the hotfix files to test.

If the Patch Program does not complain when Patching, it should work.

don't worry rloew. It's easy to obtain the Q274175 hotfix files. If you have an email account, go to this MS support link, click on the I Accept button (if it is your first time there), then select the hotfixes you want for certain platforms, fill out the required info, then click on the Request Hotfix button to obtain them. MS will send you an email containing the hidden links & password to the hotfix files.

dencorso, on Aug 31 2009, 01:03 PM, said:

Here's some great news! I've just received an e-mail from MDGx, in which he says he's OK, just overwelmed by too much work to do. He also says he intends to be back quite soon to MSFN and mentions he received your e-mails, erpdude8, and that he means to add those updates to his site soon and post about them here, as usual.

that's good news dencorso. I've recently made an unofficial Q961371 (MS09-029) t2embed.dll patch for Win98/ME/NT4 which replaces the Q908519 (MS06-002) patch. I'll send it to him shortly.

I may also have to send him the latest dhtmled.ocx (KB973869) & triedit.dll (KB956844) files later this month.

This post has been edited by erpdude8: 09 September 2009 - 01:29 PM

[rloew]

erpdude8, on Sep 9 2009, 03:28 PM, said:

[don't worry rloew. It's easy to obtain the Q274175 hotfix files. If you have an email account, go to this MS support link, click on the I Accept button (if it is your first time there), then select the hotfixes you want for certain platforms, fill out the required info, then click on the Request Hotfix button to obtain them. MS will send you an email containing the hidden links & password to the hotfix files.

They streamlined the process significantly since the last time I asked for a Hotfix.
I downloaded and extracted the 4 versions of the CDFS.VXD File.

My Patch worked on all of them except the Original Windows 95 CDFS.VXD Version 952.

[blackwingcat]

I applied to break limitter wmp.dll.

You can use more some functions on Media Player 9 with Windows Me.
Following Article
although This blog is Japanese, but wmp9ex2k.zip is multi-lingual.

[shazam]

If you install 98 SE SP 3.0 BETA 4 + AutoPatcher 2007 Final FULL & December 2008 UPGRADE
W9xPP.zip + wmp9 + maximus-decim-internetexplorer-6-0sp1-component-update-2-8a and
windowsmedia9-kb891122-x86-intl.exe were will i be on this list. ~ 1-7-2009 ?

Thx.

[MDGx]

UPDATED · 11-13-2009


Enjoy.

[Fredledingue]

Great bunch of update MDGX!
Coming back from the deaths...?

[jimmsta]

With the sudden influx of updates, keep your eyes out for the new and improved win9x power pack v6. I spent way too long attempting to update a W95 install the other day, and need to update my compilation.

This post has been edited by jimmsta: 16 November 2009 - 04:06 AM

[MDGx]

jimmsta, on Nov 16 2009, 03:06 AM, said:

With the sudden influx of updates, keep your eyes out for the new and improved win9x power pack v6. I spent way too long attempting to update a W95 install the other day, and need to update my compilation.

... And I thought you stopped developing the Power Pack.
Looking forward to your new edition.

[Prozactive]

It's great to see you back, MDGx! And a big thank you for all of your time and effort supporting the Windows community.

[Prozactive]

Hi MDGx, here is an example of the very confusing version control issue I mentioned in the MDDACU thread. This is what you posted in your latest update on 13-Nov for the GDI+ security update:

MDGx, on May 19 2005, 07:04 PM, said:

UPDATED · 11-13-2009

GDIPLUS:
http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#GDI
New version from WinXP SP3 fix:
* Unofficial Windows 98/98 SP1/98 SE/ME Graphics Device Interface+ (GDI+) 32-bit Graphics/Video Acceleration Runtime Library GDIPLUS.DLL 5.1.3102.5581 Security Vulnerability Fix:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/ms08-052.mspx
GDIPLUS.DLL [895 KB]:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/GDIPLUS.EXE
OLD GDIPLUS.DLL 5.1.3102.1360 for Windows 98/98 SP1/98 SE/ME [1 MB]:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/GDI_PLUS.EXE
Place old GDIPLUS.DLL in %windir%\SYSTEM .

However, Microsoft states in their MS09-062 security bulletin that KB958869 supersedes the KB938464 GDI+ update referenced in the MS08-052 security bulletin you cited. Therefore, the latest version of gdiplus.dll should be 5.2.6001.22319 and not 5.1.3102.5581.

Curiously, the version of gdiplus.dll on my Win98SE system is 5.1.3102.2180 (from WinXP SP2) and I'm not sure how it got to be that way.

References:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/954593
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958869

This post has been edited by Prozactive: 17 November 2009 - 01:07 PM