got a network license error when access the IT ed CD via network.
the trick is to put the in the vmware host, and make the host cdrom available to the VM PC. the speed is impressive.
in comparsion, someone else's script can't copy VMDK when the VM is running.
Showing posts with label Shadow Protect IT edition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shadow Protect IT edition. Show all posts
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
image a computer hard drives over to another computer
I know some computer will never wake up after the long holiday.
one of a client's important workstation failed to start, the hard drive light seemed always on. from past experience I knew one of the hard drive wasn't starting.
then take an image of another PC (Win-XP) with similar functionality.. well my ShadowProtect IT edition expired Q4 2009. luckily I have a Shadow Protect 3.3 CD. That saved the day. interestingly the local ShadowProect distributor wanted to send a copy of Oct 2009 IT edition. I wonder that will make any difference.
I started the process of elimination, 2 of the 3 internal hard drives not starting properly. ironically this faulty system started perfectly today. but after I run scandisk, the whole thing crashed again.
put in a new hard drive, I have restore the image to to this drive and remaining one. the first shadow protect boot crashed, I have to un-plug the old remianing hard drive from the on-board gigbyte raid controller. then restore the boot-image to the new hard drive.
behold my breath, now the image is successfully copied over. the Win-XP is starting, pop in the motherboard cd to load all the drivers. P4-3.2GHZ, very old PC.
one of a client's important workstation failed to start, the hard drive light seemed always on. from past experience I knew one of the hard drive wasn't starting.
then take an image of another PC (Win-XP) with similar functionality.. well my ShadowProtect IT edition expired Q4 2009. luckily I have a Shadow Protect 3.3 CD. That saved the day. interestingly the local ShadowProect distributor wanted to send a copy of Oct 2009 IT edition. I wonder that will make any difference.
I started the process of elimination, 2 of the 3 internal hard drives not starting properly. ironically this faulty system started perfectly today. but after I run scandisk, the whole thing crashed again.
put in a new hard drive, I have restore the image to to this drive and remaining one. the first shadow protect boot crashed, I have to un-plug the old remianing hard drive from the on-board gigbyte raid controller. then restore the boot-image to the new hard drive.
behold my breath, now the image is successfully copied over. the Win-XP is starting, pop in the motherboard cd to load all the drivers. P4-3.2GHZ, very old PC.
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