*shrug* I've done it many times says the guy who owned a shop and did this
regularly as part of upgrades. Doesn't always work though, especially
AMD-Intel (not relevant here). When it doesn't work a re-install is in order.
To rebuild the HAL. It's usually the chipset; if the driver is for a
I have always used Acronis for this kind of thing, allows clones between VERY
different hardware.
I once got a DL380 server with SBS 2008 on it to clone and boot off a laptop
successfully. It was VERY slow, but there were no errors.
Gavin Wilby
IT Support Engineer
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Sorry for the repost of what others said -
Don't you just love it when the ISP ships some of the overnight messages, waits
a while and then ships them again + the rest of the messages.
JimB
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of James
Yeah... there were specific HAL's for some specific chipsets to, things like
some Compaq's had their own.. as I think NCR did too.
The UNI vs. MULTI HAL's was primarily a speed optimization for back in the day
when SMP was still a rather exotic thing in the personal workstation space...
it
To rebuild the HAL.
What?
The HAL is not built by a user. It's a specific hardware-dependent
file. What's more, it has nothing to do with the rest of the drivers in
a system.
While the shotgun approach of nuking _EVERY_ driver in the system might
solve the _SPECIFIC_ issue of this being a boot
I am trying to look back on past posts on an issue I'm having again.
Apparently I've forgotten my password to log into lists.myitforum.com.
There is no reset password option. Clicking on Help tells me to Contact your
hosting company or email administrator to have your password changed.
I expect this is a dissimilar disc controller issue and you don't have the
right drivers to boot on the new computer. How I've gotten around this in
the past is to use a PCI or PCIe controller installed in the old machine,
boot up and get its drivers installed, then move the controller over to new
There is no password for the lists and no logon option.
What are you looking for?
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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com]
On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 9:45 AM
To: New NT System Admin List
Hi All,
I need a bit of software that I simply cannot find - there must be something
however.
I need to be able to point something at any PC on my domain and see what
printers it has installed on it.
This should include Network printers, local printers and PDF writers etc.
Id like the
Can a backup-restore accomplish effectively the same thing?
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of John C Owen
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 8:08 PM
To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it
PowerShell?
Although if you don't want to script it, it's probably not what you're after
Didn't DameWare used to enumerate stuff like printers and installed software?
Despatched via Blackberry. Mock if you will, but it gets my email without a
fuss.
-Original Message-
From: Gavin
I had an Exchange issue less than 2 months ago regarding mailboxes that
continue to appear in the Outlook client even after you removed Full Access
permissions using the EMC. I'm trying to find the thread for that conversation.
-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com
The situation is probably that the setup on the original drive is for the
original system’s motherboard and interfaces etc –
They will have been selected according to the hardware found when the initial
OS install was done.
When you copy that to a new drive nothing in the setup changes so that
Dameware I thought would be the winner, but it only lists local printers, not
networked ones.
Gavin Wilby
IT Support Engineer
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of kz2...@googlemail.com
Sent: 28 August 2014 15:42
To:
That was mine. Delete the profile is the only way I found to cure it if it
persists.
John W. Cook
Director of Network Operations
Partnership for Strong Families
Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote:
I had an Exchange issue less than 2 months ago regarding mailboxes that
continue to
The curse of automapped mailboxes...
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/hh529943%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx
Cheers,
Phil
-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: 28 August 2014 16:18
To:
The REG command will give you that info.
reg query HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices
--
There are 10 kinds of people in the world...
those who understand binary and those who don't.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
That's it. Thanks!
I still would like to know how to view archives of the list. Anyone?
-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Randal, Phil
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:26 AM
To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com
Archives are stored here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com/
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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com]
On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 11:18 AM
To: 'ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com'
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote:
I am trying to look back on past posts on an issue I'm having again.
This list is archived at:
http://www.mail-archive.com/ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com/
I've have the best luck searching it by Googling for
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Gavin Wilby
gavin.wi...@smppartners.com wrote:
I need to be able to point something at any PC on my domain and see what
printers it has installed on it.
You don't describe your environment, but any Windows that's
reasonably recent will have useful tools in
I would kind of hope the backup would be on the entire drive including
programs, etc. so it should restore to pretty close to original…otherwise a
full backup isn’t very helpful J.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of James Button
Sent:
Another tid-bit in case you haven't resolved this yet.
In the bios there is a setting for SATA relating to hdd's Change it from ACHI
to IDE (sorry don't recall exact wording and is different with each bios).
I swap hardware all the time, usually dual core to i5 quad core, very few
issues with
Hi,
Normally Id be using GPP all the way, but the issue I have (that’s not of my
making) is:
We have two print servers.
One is a 2003 server, one a 2012.
The 2003 is being retired the 2012 is to take over its role.
All printers in the building, which is about 100 odd, across 7 floors and
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Dave Lum li...@theitgarage.com wrote:
I would kind of hope the backup would be on the entire drive including
programs, etc. so it should restore to pretty close to original…otherwise a
full backup isn’t very helpful J.
It depends...
A pure system image
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote:
While the shotgun approach of nuking _EVERY_ driver in the system might
solve the _SPECIFIC_ issue of this being a boot device access issue ...
Since this has come up twice now...
What you see in Device Manager
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Gavin Wilby
gavin.wi...@smppartners.com wrote:
We have two print servers.
One is a 2003 server, one a 2012.
For this problem, the version of the print server isn't as relevant
as what the print clients are running. If they're all running
Vista/2008 or later,
Gavin, I don't know if this will help you but we did some testing with this on
Windows 7, Windows 8 and it worked.
This is an old program by Foxware Design called PrintMig (not the MS version)
It will switch an existing user's printer(s) from one server to another and it
can use another name.
Jimmy,
Can you let the forum know what the motherboards and BIOS's are on the 2
systems, as well as giving details of the drives and partitions (type, size,
position etc.,)
Also - specifically what is the version of windows on that/them - assuming it
is Retail, and thus can be transferred onto
Details, details...
hal.dll exists on the installation media. ntoskrnl.exe is built at install-time
and is used by hal.dll to handle hardware. Re-installing rebuilds ntoskrnl.exe,
not hal.dll. So my wording was wrong but the end result is the same.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com
This is true... and back in the good ol' days of NT , the Control Panel was for
Services Devices... but that was before PnP.
The Dev Mgr enumerates the device objects, but allows you to get at (some of)
the drivers associated with them.
-sc
-Original Message-
From:
What?
Ntoskrnl.exe is built and compiled at MS. It's on the install media (it
can be compressed). No files are built at install time.
And it's the reverse. NTOSKRNL.EXE is largely the executive of NT and it
relies upon the HAL to abstract the hardware.
Again, no .exe, .dll., ,sys,
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Daniel Chenault dani...@hotmail.com wrote:
hal.dll exists on the installation media. ntoskrnl.exe is built at
install-time and is used by hal.dll to handle hardware. Re-installing
rebuilds ntoskrnl.exe, not hal.dll.
I believe you are incorrect.
There are
I did check and both are IDE. The owner got frustrated and just decided to
take the larger, cloned HDD in the original PC.
No longer need to make it work on a quad core till he bitches and moans again.
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of
Jimmy,
Am I correct in assuming by IDE you mean PATA IDE rather than SATA IDE
As in both types of drive are IDE as they come with 'Integrated Drive
Electronics' - the bit (board) that goes between the cable and the inside of the
drive - motors etc.
If so, then have you only got the 1
I meant IDE/compatibility mode for SATA. No PATA on the motherboard.
Bios is set to boot the sata port the drive is connected to. Source machine is
a dell optiplex 755 desktop model and replacement machine is an HP Elite 8300
SFF.
Again nothing to do here anymore, they are back with their old
Wanted to hear some of your thoughts on this:
Going to have a subset of users in our AD environment that don't need to logon
locally (they access web based portals and applications, Office 365, some
other SaaS apps). The risk compliance group is worried about how we ensure
these guys cant'
Have a new client that wants to backup 15 computers, possibly to the cloud.
The cloud seems to be his preference right now. 7 computers are in an office
with the other 8 being laptops that rarely come into the office. There is no
server (Yeah I know), mix of Windows 7 Home and Pro, Windows 8 and
Does he have any idea how long a full backup to a cloud backup provider
takes? I'll bet he doesn't have fiber and has various speeds of
connectivity. It takes me weeks to dribble up a large backup.
On 8/28/2014 12:57 PM, Art DeKneef wrote:
Have a new client that wants to backup 15 computers,
Thanks for that - an example of why I whinge about the use of IDE to mean PATA
rather than SATA.
From Google - that would be a
657094-001 656933-001 chipset Q77 LGA1155 BTX motherboard
And that has EFI and UEFI
Possibly RAID
BIOS MBR save/protection
So that's lots of
Or how long a restore could take. ..
John W. Cook
Director of Network Operations
Partnership for Strong Families
Susan Bradley sbrad...@pacbell.net wrote:
Does he have any idea how long a full backup to a cloud backup provider
takes? I'll bet he doesn't have fiber and has various speeds of
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:07 PM, James Button
jamesbut...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
Thanks for that – an example of why I whinge about the use of IDE to mean
PATA rather than SATA.
pointless diversion
Technically speaking, IDE was originally WDC/CDC/CPQ's name for
the interface which was later
This is a little script I wrote that unmaps printers on one server and remaps
them on another server. To use it, you'll need to set the appropriate server
name in the ReMap Sub and then create pairs of Case statements in the Process
Sub, specifying what the old mapping looks like and the name
Pain #1
Scheduling backup to happen at appropriate intervals,
but not when the user powers up the notebook to use it,
and not when they do not have access to a fast link,
and not when they do not have access to the designated cloud store
Maybe logically split the hard drive into an OS
He will until the first time he needs to recover said machine and it
takes a month to dribble the files back.
What I would do is backup the local 7 to a local machine, dribble THAT
to the cloud and on those laptops, bring them in the office for a good
solid full backup and then merely do
As horrible of an idea as this is…the provider best able to pull it off might
be Evault. They can do full backups to cloud, and for restores they can ship
you out a HDD with the data. They charge a premium though and you manage your
own encryption keys (good for security, but don’t lose it or
Brings back memories of when I was asked to go and 'fix' a One-Per-Desk device
that BT had supplied to the councillors at a local authority.
The systems and phone links had been provided free by their 'Marketing' without
any discussion with IT support.
The device had 'locked-up' with a coms link
The client's desired plan is not going to meet their expectations.
They're aiming for a full backup, and will utterly fail to even get a
partial one.
I cannot add anything extra to what has already been suggested.
Perhaps the sheer volume of don't try this at home will be helpful in
getting him
Further thoughts:
Is this a corporate environment where much of the data is effectively pooled, or
are you considering individual users having almost entirely separate data on
individual PCs
If corporate, presumably the backups, and any restores will be done at the
central corporate site,
TTBOMK there are, for current OSEs, only two NTOSKRNLs for x86/x64. One 32-bit
and one 64-bit. There are a few for ARM, depending upon the form-factor and
processor, but those are OEM-only.
Today, even single physical socket processors tend to have 2/4/6/8 logical
processors (cores).
(I
I'll add Acronis to the list.
Art DeKneef
Avanti Computers
Mesa, AZ
480-649-4430 Office
480-529-4430 Mobile
-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com]
On Behalf Of Susan Bradley
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 2:09 PM
To:
And sysinternals autoruns is aware of device drivers. You can easily disable
them there (if you aren't comfortable with cmd.exe, PowerShell, or regedit).
-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Ben Scott
Sent:
Compare the $1000 desktop (yes - almost top-end off-the-shelf) with the power
and cost of a 'large' IBM mainframe of 20 years ago -
Allowing for 7% annual deflation of money value and that's well under $300 in
1990's money
Now consider you can get almost that much power and storage in a laptop!
This is a small construction company. So picture no controls, policies, data
spread all over between users, no formal backup of any kind except for the
accounting PC, everyone a local admin, etc. You should get the picture.
Ive made some initial suggestions, backup being one of them, to help
I have a set of clients who manage their own location and its needs
While using a corporate facility for email, reporting and accounting/banking
facilities.
They get PCs from their local store have the corporate IT facility staff
install orifice, email and a local desktop view of the
Microsoft's documentation on this is not as good as it could be
When I wanted to learn and understand this stuff back in the NT days, I went
straight to the Custer(Russinovich)(Solomon book). I have quite a stack of them
now.
The knowledge within is not available anywhere else in such a
Indeed. And Custer's original is what I'd consider required reading to really
understand the subject.
While the subsequent tomes by the follow on authors can stand on their own, the
underlying concepts and design principles were best outlined in the original
book and provide a lot of context
+1
The Windows source code is astonishing. Especially the pieces of it that have
significant age on them, like Service Controller. :)
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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Free, Bob
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014
As are the docs from the original NT OS/2 design workbook :)
-sc
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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com]
On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 7:12 PM
To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: RE:
Couldn't agree more. One of the most worthwhile technical books I've ever
read.well actually studied.
-Original Message-
From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:06 PM
To:
And Zachary Pascal's Showstopper captured the feel of the project in a way
closest to Kidder's Soul of a New Machine that I've read.
Not nearly as technical, but a great look at the team dynamic.
The good ol' days when MS still acted like the young upstart.
-sc
PS- While we are talking
SUMMARY
Some of our Windows 7 PCs are going into a partial machine hang
condition (locked up/not responding/wedged/etc). It's intermittent,
with no trigger or pattern I have been able to discern. Definitely a
persistent, repeating problem, though. It seems to be related to the
Microsoft
Whilst I mull this over, this may help you grab a dump of the hung process as
it can trigger on an unresponsive window handle:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900
No chance these machines all have connections to the same switch?
-sc
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From:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote:
Microsoft's documentation on this is not as good as it could be
When I wanted to learn and understand this stuff back in the NT
days, I went straight to the Custer(Russinovich)(Solomon book). I
have quite a stack of them now.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote:
Whilst I mull this over, this may help you grab a dump of the hung
process as it can trigger on an unresponsive window handle:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900
Hmmm. I'll give it a shot.
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
Some of our Windows 7 PCs are going into a partial machine hang
condition
P.S.: I should mention that the frequency, on my PC, seems to be in
the neighborhood of once a week, or maybe once every couple of weeks.
So it
You just need to know a filesystems MVP. :)
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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com] On
Behalf Of Ben Scott
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:06 PM
To: ntsysadm@lists.myitforum.com
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Steven M. Caesare scaes...@caesare.com wrote:
Whilst I mull this over, this may help you grab a dump of the hung process as
it can trigger on an unresponsive window handle:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/dd996900
It would appear ProcDump
Hmm, not that I know of...
I didn't realize until your later post that this was a once a week kind of
thing.. so that might indeed be a bit difficult to catch.
-sc
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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com [mailto:listsad...@lists.myitforum.com]
On Behalf Of Ben Scott
My first step would be to scan my machine for malware. After that I'd get a
known good machine on my network segment running WireShark, set as large a
buffer as possible and let it run. When the fault occurs I've caught it and
can examine from there.
My hunch is someone picked up a nasty and
A long shot
Can you set up a machine on the mirror/span port to which your machine
is connected, and rung tcpdump/wireshark with a circular buffer?
Doing this might help rule out nastiness coming across the wire, or
perhaps pinpoint when the machine starts to become non-responsive.
It's
Heh. Beat me to it by seconds...
Kurt
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Daniel Chenault dani...@hotmail.com wrote:
My first step would be to scan my machine for malware. After that I'd get a
known good machine on my network segment running WireShark, set as large a
buffer as possible and let
NB: I'd use a Linux box running tcpdump in case it IS a Windows-specific
attack. And no licensing issues.
On Aug 28, 2014, at 17:43, Kurt Buff kurt.b...@gmail.com wrote:
Heh. Beat me to it by seconds...
Kurt
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Daniel Chenault dani...@hotmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Daniel Chenault dani...@hotmail.com wrote:
My first step would be to scan my machine for malware.
Everything here runs Trend OfficeScan real-time, and does a full
scan once a week. Nobody runs with admin rights for day-to-day.
Software Restriction Policies
If you want an instant kernel dump, kill the SMSS process... :)
It might not get you what you need in terms of info, though, but it is
worth one try on a different (victim) system.
*ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker
*Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
If you want an instant kernel dump, kill the SMSS process... :)
OK, sure. How do I do that on a system which is non-responsive? :-)
-- Ben
LOL
I always keep a CMD window open for scenarios like this. (It only works
about 40-50% of the time, but that's better than 0%.)
I had an intermittent issue earlier this year that pretty much tortured me,
despite a considerable amount of ProcMon analysis. It was only a single
system, though,
Perfect. Thanks!
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Rod Trent rodtr...@myitforum.com wrote:
Archives are stored here:
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From: listsad...@lists.myitforum.com
Thanks for the tip!
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:43 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Maglinger, Paul pmaglin...@scvl.com wrote:
I am trying to look back on past posts on an issue I'm having again.
This list is archived at:
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
I always keep a CMD window open for scenarios like this.
I usually do, too. I also usually have Process Explorer open. But
I haven't been able to do much of anything useful with them when this
particular failure mode
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote:
... is there a way to force a bugcheck so I can get a kernel
dump ...?
I found CrashOnCtrlScroll which looks like it will do that much, at
least. Tested on a non-hung system and it did indeed bluescreen.
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