January 28, 2008:

• Drive corruption

  While trying to create a new logical drive using windows XP, the drive got corrupted and one logical drive got lost.
  Until now, I have always used Partition Magic to create new drives and partitions, but with the current set of problems with WHS, I no longer trust it to create NTFS drive. Normally, Partition Magic […]

• Carbonite recognizes partition changes

  In the middle of all this weeks chaos, it’s nice to see something work correctly. After repartioning drives, and rebooting, Carbonite realizes something serious has happened and goes into recovery mode. This means that automatic backups will not start overwriting existing offsite backups and gives you a chance to fetch restorable copies before letting the […]

July 28, 2005:

• XP Failure

  With no warning signs of any failure, the system will no longer boot into Windows XP correctly. No icons, no desktop and no taskbars appear. This makes it very hard to use.
  Tried a few suggestions to fix this.for example run sfc /scannow to repair from the CD - no luck. Tried to go back to […]