WD ELEMENTS 640 external hard drive

my otherwise good friday got ruined by WD elements 640 external hard drive.

plug into IBM x226 drive, the whole thing appears sluggish....

two drive letter appeared for this one. my co-work told me its WD new feature .... something like virual drive...

ohhhhhhhhh, kiss the llloooooooooooooooooooppppppppppppppp

this drive caused the x226 failed to boot.

attached this to an IBM x205 server, it seems fine.

I had pleasant experience with other models of external WD drive. now i am told those good ones are gone. only fancy ones here to chip me offfff


in my memory MY book is the one worked for me before ... as for the external elements ... dont really go to clinc with those things

install wsus 3.0 sp2 for use with n-able

I can't install wsus 3.0 on a standalone server with a standalone sql server, they should be domain-joined to be inter-operate.

shooot, so I have to use windows internal db.

another thing wsus 3.0 sp2 means wsus 3.0 with sp2.

IBM director 5.2 and N-able

for this org, I had removed IBM director 5.2. then deployed n-Able (Ncentral 7.0).

now I can just log onto the Ncentral to view the servers' health.

with IBM director 5.2, the capacity manager is not free. also the whole structure is tied to the AD domain. if you get many customers ie, heaps of independent forests, be it large or small... you can't vew things via one console / interface. its the same for the MS system centre, its tied to forest.

hence the markets are born for Kaseya, n-Able and many others . ... MSP ..

windows 7 easy transfer error There isn't enough room ...

there isn't enough room ...

well, there is a D drive in the old xp pc, the the D drive in the new on is a recovery partition, so there isn't enough room, manually tweak it to bypass this problem.

when transfer the profile over, it failed to handle the one situation where a user was re-name before. hence pst file not being copied, email account need manually setup again.

pop.gmail.com

well what's cathy's password in the outlook 2000? a little program mailpv.exe showed me the correct one.

where is the .nk2 location in windows 7 + outlook 2007 ... its under users\cathy\appdata\localroaming
the pst file is under users\cathy\appdata\local

n-able remote control -- port 22 still needed

after failing to connect for hours, I had to enable port 22 outgoing, then I can remotely log onto target server.

if outgoing blocked, you will see un-able to establish ssh tunnel. funny I couldn't see logs in the sonicwall tz-180.

deploy n-able probe

from n-central,create a new customer, select deploy to windows servers or client pcs/

then install the probe in a server on the csutomer's domain network.

this probe will auto-deploy agents to other servers.

it needs .net 2.0

attempt to recover a synology DS107e drive

the user said he couldn't access his DS107e drive.

I downloaded the synology assistant, it reported that the device hasn't got firmware.

so I downloaded the firmware, it warned me about wiping the data. but the user wanted the data.

pull out the hard drive from the enclosure. did a brief seagate tools test, it indicated the drive physically seemed fine. I think its quite hot tho.

... sigh ... use a toll called  explorer2fs, no luck

on a windows 2008 PC with sata cable attached, those 2fs tool can't find the drive, windows diskmgmt can't find either.

try a windows 2003 PC with a USB enclosure, the diskmgmt see the drive as unknown, but those 2fs tools can't find anything...