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Class action lawsuit over XBox Live bannings possible?

November 19, 2009

Law firm AbingtonIP has revealed that it’s currently “investigating” what it calls the “convenient” Xbox Live bannings over modded consoles.
The firm believes that it’s no coincidence that Microsoft banned “tens of thousands” of users after receiving its money for Gold memberships, post release of Halo 3: ODST and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Therefore, the law firm is considering a suit in order to get the membership fees refunded to subscribers along with a “refund for the prorated sums”.

Now then I know of at least one person affected by the huge “ban wave” that went through. Having followed along with the underground community I know what kind of impact this has made. Many people have answered back after being banned by stating that they were going to get a Playstation 3 console. It is also seen that most people who do mod their console are paying customers for XBox Live and also pay for XBox Marketplace content like arcade content, game addons or map packs, and videos.

Quote Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/gamers/09/11/19/firm-considers-class-action-over-xbox-live-bannings

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Repair the “Repair Your Computer” option on the Windows 7 boot options

November 1, 2009

Disclaimer: You will need administrative privileges to run these commands. In addition you will need to open up a command prompt with those rights to make the changes. Last but not least we will be working with the entries regarding the boot loader. If the entries get fouled up for some reason and your computer no longer boots then I am not responsible. You have been warned.

Update: The following instructions were updated on 5/7/2010 because some of the directions were wrong. I found on my last cloning job that the entry that maps the recovery entry and the options for that entry are different by one character. Usually incremented up one it is the 8th character in most cases. I show it below in the examples but the actual command string examples fail to show that and I don’t indicate it in the base command lines. I have corrected that below.

After a drive clone (and possibly in other scenarios) you may end up being unable to boot the “Repair Your Computer” option. It may give you an error that it failed to locate the specified partition or device. Here is what you need to fix the issue. Just to show you what I am referring to I will give you a screen capture of the result when you try and use that option after a clone. The issue was replicated under a 2 drive scenario using vmware. One was a 40GB and the other was an 80GB.

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