I am in the process of trying this navi hack out. I have my image, have the 9 files from the disc, and the navi dump all saved on my C drive. When I go into the command prompt I can get as far as C:\documents and settings\rich carney\navi>. Then I type in the dumpnavi BNHH401A.BIN update Back.bmp and it says " dumpnavi is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or bacth file". My image size and color are correct and it's named Back.bmp. Anyone know what i did wrong? Thanks guys.

Rich

 

Did you make BNHH401A.BIN writable (take of the read-only attribute)?

 

WIndows is not finding your dumnave.exe. Make sure it is in the same directory as the other files.

 

What is dumnave.exe?

clsdave: yeah, I checked the file and it's not read-only. Thanks!

 

Actually, forget that. The entire "navi"folder is read only but everytime I un-click read only and go back and check it it says read only. Even after I apply the attributes.

 

Did you get it working? If not try moving the folder/directory out of C:\documents and settings\rich carney\navi to maybe just C:\navi or something similar. Also try adding the .exe extension to the dumpnavi file in your command line.

IE:
cd c:\navi
dumpnavi.exe BNHH401A.BIN update Back.bmp

 

Nope...I tried what you said but it still does the same thing. The folder is still read only and I can't change it.

 

I just took a look at my old directories for modifying the bin file. They are read-only. So that's not the problem. Running dumpnavi.exe by itself gives the usage of the command:

list
extract
update outfile



I don't know why it's not working. There is also a GUI version that will open a small window with a click box for modify bitmap (and browse for file) and modify nag screen if you can't get it working.

 

This error message simply means that your computer cannot locate the dumpnavi executable in the current directory (or global path).

As someone has suggested, I would create a new folder at the root of your C: drive and call it something simple like "navihack." Then you will need to copy the BIN files, dumpnavi, and the new splash image into this new folder C:\navihack and execute the commands from there (after a cd C:\navihack).

Let us know if you are still stuck.


BTW, in the command prompt mode, "dumpnavi.exe" and "dumpnavi" is treated the same way so the ".exe" is not really necessary.

 

Thanks alot everyone. I appriciate the help. I am still having trouble though. I put thefolder right in the C drive and tried it. Still no luck. I'll try the other things you guys suggested....I'll keep you posted and probably have to ask for more assistance!

 

I'd download a fresh copy of dumpnavi. Maybe your executable got corrupted.

 

I did that just 5 mins ago...I tried all 3 versions and it keeps saying "dumpnavi bla, bla,bla is not recogniozed command, operable program or batch file. Maybe the dumpnavi programs are not good anymore?

 

My version works fine. Can you post a screen shot of your error message and a directory listing so we can see what files you have in there?

 

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Rich Carney>cd C:\

C:\>cd navi1

C:\navi1>dumpnavi BNHH401A.BIN update Back.bmp
'dumpnavi' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\navi1>

 

I'm nor sure how to post the actual command prompt window...so I marked it anc copied it here. Here is what's in my "navi1" folder on the C: drive..

Back.bmp
BN2HH110-13,305KB
BN2HHMLD-78KB
BN2HN18B-13,337KB
BNHH401A-13,342KB
BNHH12C-13,343KB
BN2HH120-13,373KB
BN2HN12B-13,296
BN2HN380-13,382
BNHN404A-13,337
NAVI-CONSOLE-SRC
and my disk is 3.50. As you can tell I'm not very computer savvy but this looked easy...apparently not! Thanks again for everyone's help!

 

here's wh
I'm nor sure how to post the actual command prompt window...so I marked it anc copied it here. Here is what's in my "navi1" folder on the C: drive..

Back.bmp
BN2HH110-13,305KB
BN2HHMLD-78KB
BN2HN18B-13,337KB
BNHH401A-13,342KB
BNHH12C-13,343KB
BN2HH120-13,373KB
BN2HN12B-13,296
BN2HN380-13,382
BNHN404A-13,337
NAVI-CONSOLE-SRC
and my disk is 3.50. As you can tell I'm not very computer savvy but this looked easy...apparently not! Thanks again for everyone's help! at's in my "navi1" folder

 

Can you do a directory listing of the c:\navi1 directory?

c:\navi1>dir

 

Copy the dumpnavi.exe program that you downloaded into C:\navi1

 

I thought that's what the navi-console-src program was? I copied the dumpnavi program from the sticky into navi1 and it does the same thing.

 

You do not need to download "navi-console-src.zip".

You will need to download "navi-console.zip". Once downloaded, open the "navi-console.zip" using Winzip and extract "dumpnavi.exe" to c:\navi1

 

ok...I'm a dumb ass...I did what you said and i made some headway. it says "updating Back.bmp than it says unable to stat file Back.bmp.

 

That message usually shows up when dumpnavi can not find Back.bmp. Your Windows XP is probably set up to not show file extensions.

1. You will want to browse to c:\navi1 from "My Computer"
2. Go to "Tools", "Folder Options"
3. Click on the "View" tab
4. Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types"
5. Click "OK"

Now make sure that your background image file is named "Back.bmp" exactly and not Back.bmp.bmp

 

It worked!!! Thanks for all your help! Now i'm gonna try toe other hacks. Tahanks again!

 

No problem. Glad you are able to get the Navi hacks to work.

 

Got busy at work so I couldn't check this thread after I posted, but glad you were able to get it working with cls01_nighthawk's help.

 

Thanks to everyone's help! It's greatly appriciated!