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School of Hard (Drive) Knocks – Part 2

February 9, 2010
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At the beginning of the month I wrote about my Windows Home Server hard drive problems and at the time I was waiting for WHS to finish removing the bad drive from its storage pool. When I posted the article I was letting Windows Home Server run through the drive removal process while I slept. [...]

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School of Hard (Drive) Knocks

February 2, 2010
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One of the problems with having a Windows Home Server with 12 hard drives is that hard drives do fail and there’s a dozen chances for that to happen. Add to that the 18TB of data those drives can hold and things are further complicated. The odds are not in my favor and it’s only [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #46: Housekeeping Edition

December 13, 2009
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It’s been over a month since I’ve done a Trail Log and I got some time for blog updates this weekend so I might aw well do one. The day job has kept me busy and pretty well burnt out by the time I get home so I haven’t dived in depth into anything for [...]

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Frustration Comes Then Goes

August 2, 2009

It wouldn’t be beta if there weren’t some problems and frustrations with Windows 7. After installing Windows Update KB72636 (a compatibility list update for IE my screensaver and energy saver stopped kicking off. No problem running the screensaver manually. Coincidence maybe, but it always worked up until that point and that was the only [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #43: Problems & Solutions Edition

July 29, 2009

June was a slow month on the Quest but things began to pick up in July. It looks like problems that started in June now appear to be cleaned up. Along with that success I finally appear to be running the latest version of all my software both on my computers and on the web. [...]

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OS X 10.5.7 Lockup Update

July 18, 2009

As I’ve previously written about here, here and here I’ve had problem with my iMac since installing OS X 10.5.7. I’m pretty much at the point of installing everything from scratch one last time and extensively test after each and every update.
Until today when I realized the easiest way for me to reproduce the problem [...]

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Apple Hardware Test

July 14, 2009

After all my problems with the OS X 10.5.7 update the next step was to run hardware diagnostics. No sense doing a third fresh install unless I knew it wasn’t a hardware problem unearthed by the upgrade.
Unknown to me, until I started checking was that every Mac comes with hardware diagnostics on the bundled DVD. [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #42: Apple Sucks Edition

July 7, 2009

My Apple woes continue. Every since upgrading to OS X 10.5.7 my iMac has been locking up on a regular and frequent basis. I’m not alone with one thread on the Apple forum reaching 11 pages. So, since my initial problems I’ve re-installed my OS twice (a fresh install beginning with a drive format).
The second [...]

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Mac OS X 10.5.7 and iMac Lock-Ups

June 14, 2009

Ever since I installed the OS X 10.5.7 update my iMac has been completely freezing up after a few hours of use, and I’m not the only one as indicated by this thread. Some people were able to fix the problem with some of the recommended solutions, but like Jeff Zeldman I was unable to [...]

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Seagate Early Success, Ultimate Fail

January 31, 2009

Seagate’s been in the news for even more hard drive problems but I was finally able to download the BIOS update from Seagate and apply it to the drives. With all their problems Seagate finally made the BIOS downloads available publicly, rather than having to get a link from their tech support. Even better, [...]

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The OS Quest Trail Log #37: 2009 Kick-Off Edition

January 4, 2009

Yea, I know, I just did a trail log and there hasn’t been much happening since then, so what else could there be? Well, not much actually. I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions or stuff like that, but despite that I’ve spent some time recently thinking about where the Quest should go this [...]

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