Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Aug 10 13:00:25 CDT 2013
Hi Gustav: I had a 5.25 disk(s) with a host of batch files, standard menus and drive specifications for every occasion. When still working, most sites did their installs and upgrades via some very impressive batch files. The clients I still support have all their over-night routines built in batch files...they are easy to maintain, reliable and very fast. I always liked when Windows sat on top of a DOS shell. PowerShell is what DOS should have morphed into and then adding all the multiuser and security features. Mind you, if we did we would now have a Windows built just like Linux. To my way of thinking not a particularly bad thing. Then a person could just throw on another distro to suit their needs and budget. Microsoft's Hyper-V server engine is making a good start in that direction...with a couple of simple OS Distros with Wizards for those not wanting to assemble batch files for common tasks. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk> To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 10:13:29 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Sticky "ghost" partion on SSD Hi Jim Some of it. You could do magic with piping and self generating batch files. PC Magazine had a monthly column with a lot of tricks. Today you would use PowerShell or similar. /gustav >>> accessd at shaw.ca 10-08-13 18:57 >>> Hi Gustav: You remember that stuff? ;-) Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gustav Brock" <Gustav at cactus.dk> To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 1:47:26 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Sticky "ghost" partion on SSD Hi Mark The show moves on. But we see some progress. I remember when we at a DOS prompt opened Debug and then typed the magic g=c800:5 and it took a while to low-level format a 20 MB MFM harddisk. Debug and Edlin (the command line text editor which could do real magic) are now gone. /gustav >>> marklbreen at gmail.com 10-08-13 10:16 >>> Hi Gustav, I have played with a utility named GParted which was quite good. I also used it to assist me in partitioning a 3TB drive in Windows 2012 - this was not easy the first time I did it. Windows does not like partitions above 2TB. However, with careful sequencing of the preparation of the drive, you can make it work. When we broke the 2GB drive barrier 10 years ago, I thought it would be the last time. Seems it is back again. Mark On 9 August 2013 17:35, Gustav Brock <gustav at cactus.dk> wrote: > Hi all > > I moved the drive to the ThinkStation, booted with the Hyper-V install cd, > and reformatted the drive at the full size of ~64 GB. > > Then I shut the machine down, reconnected all drives and booted. Now the > Kingston SSD showed up with the correct partitions. > Problem solved. > > /gustav > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Gustav Brock > Sendt: 9. august 2013 13:20 > Til: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' > Emne: [dba-Tech] Sticky "ghost" partion on SSD > > Hi all > > My Kingston SSDNow 64 GB SSD once was restored using Windows Restore in > Hyper-V with a partition of 15 GB. > > It was then mounted in my ThinkStation with Win7 which, of course, could see > that partition. > However, it could not erase that partion to create a new of the full > capacity of the drive, ~64 GB. > > So I moved the drive to first one (with Hyper-V Server), then another > machine (with Win8) and both could create and view a partion of ~64 GB. > > However, when I move the drive back to the ThinkStation, it still believes > the old 15 GB partion is there. > How can I tell the ThinkStation to refresh the partion information? > > /gustav _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com