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iPad – Is no joke!

stevewebsters — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:51:34 +0000

When I first pre-ordered my iPad I was happy and let it go for a while. I had pre-ordered a 16Gb 3G, but then about a week ago I cancelled it and got a 32Gb wifi only and just got it today. I have to say it is an amazing device. It does everything my iPhone does (that I love about it) only bigger and better. And to add ontop of that I can use my 3G on my phone too (thank you jailbreak).

Windows 7 and System Reserve Partition

stevewebsters — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:12:08 +0000

If you are having problems with using any boot editing program and finding your boot register does not boot properly, this is because windows 7 automatically puts in a system reserve partition that hosts your boot.ini/boot manager.

You can remedy this but you need to have your windows 7 boot disk (or you can try to copy your files over from the system reserve partition, just mount it and copy to the root of your system drive.).

First boot into your windows 7 disk and click ok for english, then click repair on the bottom left, cancel any auto repair.

Then go to the cmd prompt option.
Type diskpart, now type list volume, you should see a system reserve partition with no mount for a letter.
Type select volume # (where # = your system reserve volume #), and format it but also leave it without a drive letter, your going to lose the 100mb of disk space doing it this way.

Depending on your computer knowledge you can recover it with partitioning software.

Anyways you have successfully deleted the system reserve partition. But now you can’t boot into windows. Easy fix : close the command prompt and click Startup Recovery.

Now if you install a custom boot (Ready Driver Plus for example [automatic disable driver signing]) your machine will boot just fine.

Just tossing up some stuff.

stevewebsters — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:28:43 +0000

I am just posting some stuff to get this thing rolling. Todays lesson is when you install Server 2008 R2 do not install it and get everything working to forget your installing it on a USB drive and unplug it while installing AD DS. Just have to start it all over again.

Happy Halloween!