I have a Windows 2003 SBS SP1 box on a Dell PE750. As a disaster recovery trial I decided to try and recover it to a Dell PE1950 which obviously has different hardware. The PE750 has "Intel Pro/1000 CT" nics and the PE1950 has "Broadcom NetXtreme II GigE" Nics not to...
Ever wanted to right click on a file or folder and then copy the path? – Heres how
At work I get phone calls from users asking where file or folder X is. Instead of starting into explaining the path to the user and then explaining which key is the backslash key, I have found it easier to copy the path into an email and send it to them. I have a...
nLite to the rescue – Or how I installed a 3rd party Via Raid Driver without a floppy
Just have had the worst day trying to get an OS onto an old P4 which has an Asus P4P800 mboard and an embedded via raid controller. After a disk corruption caused by running chkdsk /f C:. Update: Looks like the disk corruption wasn't caused by my disk check because...
Grant Access to MSDE DB using Windows Group
Trying to get an MSDE going with the SQL gui. These are my personal notes. osql -U sa -S SERVER\INSTANCE Password: ****** 1. Give the group the ability to login to the MSDE Instance use master go EXEC sp_addlogin 'DOMAIN\domainGroup' go 2. Grant Access to DB (still...
Copy a Table – MSDE
Using osql log into the database osql -S SERVERNAME\INSTANCENAME -U dbusername Password: ********* 1>use dbname 2>go 1>SELECT * INTO new_target_table FROM old_source_table 2>go
Using Knoppix and the dd utility to restore a WinXP partition Image to a Hard Disk
These are my notes on how I successfully restored a Windows XP image I took of a partition. I can't remember how exactly I took the partition image of the Windows XP installation. I can remember the following points I was dual booting at the time and I needed the XP...