Re: [OT] 1TB disk shrinks to 32MB fix

2012-05-31 Thread mike smith 
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Greg Keogh  wrote:
> Folks, Last year I purchased a brand new 1TB drive, brought it home and
> plugged it to find it was a 32MB drive. I took it back for a replacement
> drive which did not have the problem.
>

That's some shrinkage!

>
>
> Yesterday I took a Seagate 1TB drive out of an old decommission Vista
> machine and plugged it into my server and found it had shrunk to 32MB. I
> estimate I burnt up at least 2 solid man hours trying the drive in different
> machines and using different BIOS tricks to get it back to 1TB again without
> hope. It’s a popular problem during web searches. Hundreds if web pages
> later I find advice to install SeaTools for Windows, but it’s a waste of
> time as it doesn’t repair problems like this and just does scans.
>

Once the OS has mounted it, you're at too high a logical level, IIRC.

>
>
> Then I found an ISO CD image of SeaTools for DOS (SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO)
> which you boot from and it has a surprisingly pleasant screen where you can
> “Set capacity to MAX native”. This put the drive back to 1TB and it’s now
> recognised as such over in my server where I originally wanted it.
>
>

Admire your perseverance,  Many would write it off due to low cost of
1TB drives these days.

>
> Just in case this helps others avoid the suffering I went though.
>
>
>
> Greg



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Re: Visual Studio 11 side by side

2012-05-31 Thread Tony Wright 
No - except for Azure. Take a look at this article if you're planning to
use it for Azure.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/vs11/

Mind you, for the project I was working on, it made me abandon VS11.

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Dave Walker  wrote:

> Anyone have any issues with running this on a work environment so far?

RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

2012-05-31 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com) 
Yeah, I'm happy to see him get $10 for that J

 

Regards,

 

Greg

 

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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Ian Thomas
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 7:14 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

 

Damn - I paid the full price! At ~$AUS11 and with progressive new releases,
plus O'Reilly's "lifetime access" etc, that's not too bad I guess"

 

  _  

Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia

  _  

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Jiri Kosar
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 5:03 PM
To: 'g...@greglow.com'; 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

 

If you apply this code : MYEP9

It will drop 50% off 

 

Jiri

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 6:50 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

 

Sweet. Thanks for the link Grant.

 

Regards,

 

Greg

 

Dr Greg Low

 

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From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
  On Behalf Of Grant
Castner
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 2:19 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

 

Charles Petzold has a consumer preview for $10 of his new sixth edition of
Programming Windows which includes developing for Windows 8. The price
increases June 1.

 

See http://charlespetzold.com/ 



   

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Dr Grant Castner 
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On 31 May 2012 11:34, Stephen Price  wrote:

Interesting choice of cover tools. The Moving to Visual Studio 2010
has a pair of pliers on the cover. Somehow appropriate. My mental
image, for some reason, imagined the pliers being used on my teeth.
*erk*

lol


On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Ian Thomas  wrote:
> These 10 free eBooks (PDF, XPS) from Microsoft Press have been available
for
> some time, I think - but someone sent me a link just today.
>
> One of interest may be Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold.
This
> has epub, MOBI (Kindle) versions as well - plus code for C#, VB.NET
> (separate downloads).
>
> The general link is here - the 10 topics (not exact titles) are:
>
> SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, office 365,
> Office 2010, Security and privacy for Office 2010, Moving to VS2010,
> Understanding Virtualization Solutions, Deploying Windows 7, Programming
> Windows Phone 7
>
> 
>
> Ian Thomas
> Victoria Park, Western Australia
>
>

RE: [OT] 1TB disk shrinks to 32MB fix

2012-05-31 Thread Ian Thomas 
Greg

I remember this weirdness from some years back. The Seagate
  forum post that
particularly amused me was this one (I happened to find it again quite
quickly) - 

 

The only reason for getting such phenomena is the usage of a Mainbord with
yellow(orange) and purple(lilac) SATA connectors where taiwanese BIOS coders
were unable to do there job well in the past.

Drives can be reactivated on a board from other vendor, by seatools running
Advanced Features/Set Capacity to MAX native. BIOS update is essential
before plugging it to the gaga board again.

 

(ignore the primary-school standard spelling and grammar)

The remedy is probably the same that you found to work. I'm not sure about
the technical explanation for why it occurred! 

 

  _  

Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia

  _  

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Greg Keogh
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:58 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: [OT] 1TB disk shrinks to 32MB fix

 

Folks, Last year I purchased a brand new 1TB drive, brought it home and
plugged it to find it was a 32MB drive. I took it back for a replacement
drive which did not have the problem.

 

Yesterday I took a Seagate 1TB drive out of an old decommission Vista
machine and plugged it into my server and found it had shrunk to 32MB. I
estimate I burnt up at least 2 solid man hours trying the drive in different
machines and using different BIOS tricks to get it back to 1TB again without
hope. It's a popular problem during web searches. Hundreds if web pages
later I find advice to install SeaTools for Windows, but it's a waste of
time as it doesn't repair problems like this and just does scans.

 

Then I found an ISO CD image of SeaTools for DOS (SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO)
which you boot from and it has a surprisingly pleasant screen where you can
"Set capacity to MAX native". This put the drive back to 1TB and it's now
recognised as such over in my server where I originally wanted it.

 

Just in case this helps others avoid the suffering I went though.

 

Greg

RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

2012-05-31 Thread Ian Thomas 
Damn - I paid the full price! At ~$AUS11 and with progressive new releases,
plus O'Reilly's "lifetime access" etc, that's not too bad I guess"

 

  _  

Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia

  _  

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Jiri Kosar
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 5:03 PM
To: 'g...@greglow.com'; 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

 

If you apply this code : MYEP9

It will drop 50% off 

 

Jiri

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 6:50 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

 

Sweet. Thanks for the link Grant.

 

Regards,

 

Greg

 

Dr Greg Low

 

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax


SQL Down Under | Web:   www.sqldownunder.com

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
  On Behalf Of Grant
Castner
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 2:19 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

 

Charles Petzold has a consumer preview for $10 of his new sixth edition of
Programming Windows which includes developing for Windows 8. The price
increases June 1.

 

See http://charlespetzold.com/ 



   

Castner IT Pty Ltd 
Dr Grant Castner 
Director

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On 31 May 2012 11:34, Stephen Price  wrote:

Interesting choice of cover tools. The Moving to Visual Studio 2010
has a pair of pliers on the cover. Somehow appropriate. My mental
image, for some reason, imagined the pliers being used on my teeth.
*erk*

lol


On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Ian Thomas  wrote:
> These 10 free eBooks (PDF, XPS) from Microsoft Press have been available
for
> some time, I think - but someone sent me a link just today.
>
> One of interest may be Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold.
This
> has epub, MOBI (Kindle) versions as well - plus code for C#, VB.NET
> (separate downloads).
>
> The general link is here - the 10 topics (not exact titles) are:
>
> SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, office 365,
> Office 2010, Security and privacy for Office 2010, Moving to VS2010,
> Understanding Virtualization Solutions, Deploying Windows 7, Programming
> Windows Phone 7
>
> 
>
> Ian Thomas
> Victoria Park, Western Australia
>
>

RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

2012-05-31 Thread Jiri Kosar 
Sorry, should have said that it will drop the price to $5

Jiri

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
Behalf Of Jiri Kosar
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 7:03 PM
To: 'g...@greglow.com'; 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

If you apply this code : MYEP9
It will drop 50% off

Jiri

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com 
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
 On Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 6:50 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

Sweet. Thanks for the link Grant.

Regards,

Greg

Dr Greg Low

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax
SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com 
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
 On Behalf Of Grant Castner
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 2:19 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

Charles Petzold has a consumer preview for $10 of his new sixth edition of 
Programming Windows which includes developing for Windows 8. The price 
increases June 1.

See http://charlespetzold.com/

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On 31 May 2012 11:34, Stephen Price 
mailto:step...@perthprojects.com>> wrote:
Interesting choice of cover tools. The Moving to Visual Studio 2010
has a pair of pliers on the cover. Somehow appropriate. My mental
image, for some reason, imagined the pliers being used on my teeth.
*erk*

lol

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Ian Thomas 
mailto:il.tho...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:
> These 10 free eBooks (PDF, XPS) from Microsoft Press have been available for
> some time, I think - but someone sent me a link just today.
>
> One of interest may be Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold. This
> has epub, MOBI (Kindle) versions as well - plus code for C#, 
> VB.NET
> (separate downloads).
>
> The general link is here - the 10 topics (not exact titles) are:
>
> SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, office 365,
> Office 2010, Security and privacy for Office 2010, Moving to VS2010,
> Understanding Virtualization Solutions, Deploying Windows 7, Programming
> Windows Phone 7
>
> 
>
> Ian Thomas
> Victoria Park, Western Australia
>
>

RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

2012-05-31 Thread Jiri Kosar 
If you apply this code : MYEP9
It will drop 50% off

Jiri

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On 
Behalf Of Greg Low (GregLow.com)
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 6:50 PM
To: 'ozDotNet'
Subject: RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

Sweet. Thanks for the link Grant.

Regards,

Greg

Dr Greg Low

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax
SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com 
[mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
 On Behalf Of Grant Castner
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 2:19 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

Charles Petzold has a consumer preview for $10 of his new sixth edition of 
Programming Windows which includes developing for Windows 8. The price 
increases June 1.

See http://charlespetzold.com/

[http://www.castnerit.com.au/images/castnerITLogo_96x96.png]


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Dr Grant Castner
Director

e: gcast...@castnerit.com.au

w: http://www.castnerit.com.au
p: 0458 770 749

a: P.O. Box 952 Mooloolaba QLD 4557
twitter: @castnerit
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On 31 May 2012 11:34, Stephen Price 
mailto:step...@perthprojects.com>> wrote:
Interesting choice of cover tools. The Moving to Visual Studio 2010
has a pair of pliers on the cover. Somehow appropriate. My mental
image, for some reason, imagined the pliers being used on my teeth.
*erk*

lol

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Ian Thomas 
mailto:il.tho...@iinet.net.au>> wrote:
> These 10 free eBooks (PDF, XPS) from Microsoft Press have been available for
> some time, I think - but someone sent me a link just today.
>
> One of interest may be Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold. This
> has epub, MOBI (Kindle) versions as well - plus code for C#, 
> VB.NET
> (separate downloads).
>
> The general link is here - the 10 topics (not exact titles) are:
>
> SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, office 365,
> Office 2010, Security and privacy for Office 2010, Moving to VS2010,
> Understanding Virtualization Solutions, Deploying Windows 7, Programming
> Windows Phone 7
>
> 
>
> Ian Thomas
> Victoria Park, Western Australia
>
>

[OT] 1TB disk shrinks to 32MB fix

2012-05-31 Thread Greg Keogh 
Folks, Last year I purchased a brand new 1TB drive, brought it home and
plugged it to find it was a 32MB drive. I took it back for a replacement
drive which did not have the problem.

 

Yesterday I took a Seagate 1TB drive out of an old decommission Vista
machine and plugged it into my server and found it had shrunk to 32MB. I
estimate I burnt up at least 2 solid man hours trying the drive in different
machines and using different BIOS tricks to get it back to 1TB again without
hope. It's a popular problem during web searches. Hundreds if web pages
later I find advice to install SeaTools for Windows, but it's a waste of
time as it doesn't repair problems like this and just does scans.

 

Then I found an ISO CD image of SeaTools for DOS (SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO)
which you boot from and it has a surprisingly pleasant screen where you can
"Set capacity to MAX native". This put the drive back to 1TB and it's now
recognised as such over in my server where I originally wanted it.

 

Just in case this helps others avoid the suffering I went though.

 

Greg

RE: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

2012-05-31 Thread Greg Low (GregLow.com) 
Sweet. Thanks for the link Grant.

 

Regards,

 

Greg

 

Dr Greg Low

 

1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax


SQL Down Under | Web:   www.sqldownunder.com

 

From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com]
On Behalf Of Grant Castner
Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 2:19 PM
To: ozDotNet
Subject: Re: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

 

Charles Petzold has a consumer preview for $10 of his new sixth edition of
Programming Windows which includes developing for Windows 8. The price
increases June 1.

 

See http://charlespetzold.com/ 



   

Castner IT Pty Ltd 
Dr Grant Castner 
Director

e: gcast...@castnerit.com.au

w: http://www.castnerit.com.au  
p: 0458 770 749 

a: P.O. Box 952 Mooloolaba QLD 4557
twitter: @castnerit  
facebook:
 facebook.com/castnerit

 

 





On 31 May 2012 11:34, Stephen Price  wrote:

Interesting choice of cover tools. The Moving to Visual Studio 2010
has a pair of pliers on the cover. Somehow appropriate. My mental
image, for some reason, imagined the pliers being used on my teeth.
*erk*

lol


On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Ian Thomas  wrote:
> These 10 free eBooks (PDF, XPS) from Microsoft Press have been available
for
> some time, I think - but someone sent me a link just today.
>
> One of interest may be Programming Windows Phone 7, by Charles Petzold.
This
> has epub, MOBI (Kindle) versions as well - plus code for C#, VB.NET
> (separate downloads).
>
> The general link is here - the 10 topics (not exact titles) are:
>
> SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, office 365,
> Office 2010, Security and privacy for Office 2010, Moving to VS2010,
> Understanding Virtualization Solutions, Deploying Windows 7, Programming
> Windows Phone 7
>
> 
>
> Ian Thomas
> Victoria Park, Western Australia
>
>

Visual Studio 11 side by side

2012-05-31 Thread Dave Walker 
Anyone have any issues with running this on a work environment so far?

Re: Free eBooks (Microsoft Press)

2012-05-31 Thread mike smith 
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Grant Castner wrote:

> Charles Petzold has a consumer preview for $10 of his new sixth edition of
> Programming Windows which includes developing for Windows 8. The price
> increases June 1.
>

I wonder if you can upgrade.  I've got a version 3.1 around the place
somewhere :)  IIRC, it was programming windows sans any framework, in c.
 All the way down to writing message pump.  I miss that.  Not.



> 
>



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you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills