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		<title>Vista Complete PC Backup on RAID drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time it really hit me hard: The Mandriva 2009 RC1 live installer formatted one of my RAID 0 hard disks without prior notice. Oh yeah, I have a backup on the other RAID array, made with Vista&#8217;s great new &#8220;Complete PC Backup&#8221; &#8211; which didn&#8217;t work. So this time, Linux and Windows performed a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This time it really hit me hard: The Mandriva 2009 RC1 live installer formatted one of my RAID 0 hard disks without prior notice. Oh yeah, I have a backup on the other RAID array, made with Vista&#8217;s great new &#8220;Complete PC Backup&#8221; &#8211; which didn&#8217;t work. So this time, Linux <em>and</em> Windows performed a great co-operation in driving me crazy.<br />
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Ok, so the disk was formatted and therefore the RAID 0 array destroyed. Sad enough. First of all, I had to repair my DVD drive, which didn&#8217;t work for a while. It was just a bit dusty, so I opened it and cleaned everything and it worked again. Then I booted from the Vista DVD for the repair mode. Then I experienced that my second (working) array was not recognized. Ah, drivers missing. Both, Promise and Asus don&#8217;t find it necessary to offer drivers for a four-year-old mainboard on the internet, so it took me half an hour to find appropriate drivers. Anyway, then everything seemed to work fine: Boot from DVD, choose repair options, Vista automatically finds the backup and knows where to restore it to. Too easy.</p>
<p>No, it&#8217;s not that easy. I got an &#8220;file or directory corrupted&#8221; error. I tried twice, then I installed a clean Vista to perform all kinds of checks to the backup drive, everything was fine, but not working. Then I found out that the Complete Backup is a .vhd file and that other software is capable of restoring from vhd. So I installed some commercial software, burned a rescue CD, booted from that. Same result: It finds the backup and knows what to do with it, but can&#8217;t write.</p>
<p>There are some other threads on the net on this issue. I doubt that this damn Vista feature works on RAID drives at all. After hours of trying and internet research, I found a solution:</p>
<p>1. Install a clean Vista on the broken array and switch off &#8220;user account control&#8221;.<br />
2. Install the Vhdmount feature of MS Virtual Server 2005 (downloadable at no cost). See <a href="http://www.pcwelt.de/start/software_os/vista/praxis/95346/mehr_sicherheit_und_komfort_unter_vista/index5.html">these instructions</a> in German (I didn&#8217;t manage extracting the msi out of setup.exe, but you can choose the vhd function only in regular setup) or google for it in English.<br />
3. Install <a href="http://www.xxcopy.com">xxcopy</a> freeware edition.<br />
4. Find the .vhd file under the &#8220;WindowsImageBackup&#8221; folder and mount it using vhdmount.<br />
5. Xxcopy all content from the newly mounted drive to a directory (either on the backup drive or on the formerly broken array) using the /backup parameter. This will show some errors, don&#8217;t care.<br />
6. Reboot from your  Vista DVD, go in repair mode and open a command line.<br />
7. Xxcopy everything from the folder mentioned before to C:\, use parameters /backup and /y.<br />
8. Reboot from hard disk and enjoy your new old Vista installation <img src='http://www.jlussi.eu/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>My system is fully functional. The only thing I recognized is that Vista lost information about the Vista updates I chose <em>not </em>to install and offered those to me again. But that&#8217;s not too bad.</p>
<p>Now, this took me almost the whole day. Why does Mandriva not ask before formatting a harddisk? Why does Vista not check whether the backup can be restored to the drive that is backed up? And does anyone have a good recommendation for a backup tool that works with RAID drives?</p>
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		<title>Repair Vista Bootup After PC-BSD Installation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 22:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I downloaded PC-BSD 7 to try it out &#8211; my first BSD operating system. I was very disappointed after intalling it on my Thinkpad. Localised German texts often don&#8217;t fit into the space intended for text, the standard font-size is so big that options in drop-down-menus are not readable and it was damn slow, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today, I downloaded <a href="http://www.pcbsd.org/">PC-BSD</a> 7 to try it out &#8211; my first BSD operating system. I was very disappointed after intalling it on my Thinkpad. Localised German texts often don&#8217;t fit into the space intended for text, the standard font-size is so big that options in drop-down-menus are not readable and it was damn slow, don&#8217;t know why. But the worst thing: Vista did not start up after installing PC-BSD. As intended, PC-BSD installed a bootloader with a boot menu, but after selecting &#8220;DOS&#8221; as a bootup option, the Vista bootup failed.</p>
<p>So I went through dozens of websites related to Vista bootloader fails after BSD or Linux installations. I came closer and closer, but at some point, information became very rare &#8211; as usual, my problem seemed to be more complicated than the average problem of the same kind <img src='http://www.jlussi.eu/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />  Here&#8217;s how I did it:<br />
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<p>First of all: This article is for people having a problem with booting Vista, while the Vista partition and all files on it are still there. If you chose to use the whole (and same as Vista) hard disk for your BSD or Linux or whatever other operating system, and therefore the Vista disk partition was deleted, there&#8217;s most probably nothing you can do (maybe apart from calling and paying a professional data recovery service).</p>
<p><strong>Step 1: Vista Automatic Repair</strong><br />
This is said to work in many cases. Take your Vista DVD (or, if you don&#8217;t have one because Vista was preinstalled and your PC manufacturer didn&#8217;t deliver a DVD, get a Recovery CD image from <a href="http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/">here</a>). Choose &#8220;<em>Repair your Computer</em>&#8221; and then &#8220;<em>Startup Repair</em>&#8220;. If that works for you, fine, don&#8217;t read on. It didn&#8217;t work out on my computer.</p>
<p><strong>Step 2: Repair MBR and BCD</strong><br />
Now, open a command line from the repair options menu and enter:<br />
<code><br />
del c:\boot\ /f /s<br />
bootrec /fixmbr<br />
bootrec /rebuildbcd<br />
</code></p>
<p>This is said to work out for the very most people where step 1 didn&#8217;t help. Again, if that works for you, fine, don&#8217;t read on. It didn&#8217;t help me.</p>
<p><strong>Step 3: Repair the Start Sector</strong><br />
Now, what websites say is that most probably this works out for the rest:<br />
Enter<br />
<code>bootrec /fixboot</code><br />
at the command line.</p>
<p>If you get a success message, go back to step 2, which should really work now.<br />
Again, I got no success message but an error message: &#8220;<em>The volume does not contain a recognized file system</em>&#8220;. Information on the net is rare on this specific problem. But at the very end, I managed it:</p>
<p><strong>Step 4: Using diskpart</strong><br />
Diskpart is the Vista partition manager and it is the most unhandy partition manager I&#8217;ve ever seen. You&#8217;ll love good old fdisk after using diskpart.<br />
Anyway, enter<br />
<code>diskpart</code><br />
to open the diskpart console.</p>
<p>There, enter <code>help</code> to get an overview. Our goal is to activate the Vista boot partition. This is usually done by<br />
<code><br />
select disk 0<br />
select volume 1<br />
select partition 0<br />
</code><br />
if the Vista boot partition is the first partition on your first hard drive. If you have to search for the right partition, use<br />
<code><br />
detail disk<br />
detail volume<br />
detail partition<br />
</code><br />
to see information about the <em>selected</em> object. If you&#8217;ve selected the right partition, enter<br />
<code><br />
active<br />
exit<br />
</code><br />
to activate that partition and go back to the command line. Then follow steps 3 and 2. This helped me and &#8211; according to the rare information on the net &#8211; also a few others. If this doesn&#8217;t help, I can&#8217;t help you either, sorry.</p>
<p>Thanks to the authors of information that I found <a href="http://neosmart.net/forums/showthread.php?t=767">here</a>, <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.windows.vista.general/browse_thread/thread/5088dabff5ca9cb5/42e320262f7ef839">here</a> and <a href="http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B927392&amp;x=23&amp;y=14">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Linux und das Notebook&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:58:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So ungefähr alle anderthalb Jahre überkommt es mich und ich will mir mal ansehen, auf welchem Stand eigentlich Linux so für den Desktop-Bereich ist. Diesmal habe ich den Schwierigkeitsgrad leicht erhöht: Mein altes Notebook sollte es diesmal sein &#8211; und um es vorwegzunehmen: Alle Vorurteile gegenüber Linux haben sich leider bestätigt. Das Notebook ist ein [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So ungefähr alle anderthalb Jahre überkommt es mich und ich will mir mal ansehen, auf welchem Stand eigentlich Linux so für den Desktop-Bereich ist. Diesmal habe ich den Schwierigkeitsgrad leicht erhöht: Mein altes Notebook sollte es diesmal sein &#8211; und um es vorwegzunehmen: Alle Vorurteile gegenüber Linux haben sich leider bestätigt.<span id="more-47"></span><br />
Das Notebook ist ein HP OmniBook XE3 mit Celeron-Prozessor (ich glaube, 1200 MHz), 256 MB RAM, einer 20 GB Festplatte. Dazu habe ich eine PC-Card für WLAN von MSI. Also alles nicht besonders exotisch, WinXP lief vorher eigentlich problemlos. Die Aufgabenstellung: WLAN (mit WPA), Bilder anzeigen, DVDs angucken, Windows-Netzwerk (Samba).</p>
<p>Die erste Wahl fiel auf OpenSuSE 10.3, eigentlich nur, weil SuSE mein erstes Linux war (irgendeine Version mit ner 8 an erster Stelle) und in Deutschland wohl immer noch die populärste Distro ist. Die Live-CD mit GNOME wollte nicht starten (mal war der X-Server schon gestartet, mal gab es das Display nicht). Die Installations-CD für Netzwerk-Installation hat dann funktioniert, alles prima, nur die Soundkarte gibt keinen Ton von sich. Der Onboard-Chip nennt sich &#8220;ESS Allegro&#8221;, ist von SuSE auch erkannt worden, aber der Treiber (oder was auch immer) konnte nicht gestartet werden bzw. ist bei Testtönen abgestürzt.</p>
<p>Die zweite Wahl war Fedora, und ich hab&#8217; aus Neugierde gleich die Fedora 8 RC3 genommen, was vielleicht für das alte Notebook ein Tick zu viel war, jedenfalls hat er sich nach dem Login (Live CD) einen Wolf (Werwolf?) geladen und nichts ist passiert. Hab&#8217;s mir mittlerweile auch auf einem modernen Rechner angesehen und fand&#8217;s sehr hübsch, soweit man das von der Live CD beurteilen kann.</p>
<p>Nach dem Rückschlag habe ich dann überlegt, mal Xubuntu zu nehmen, mit Xfce, das auch auf schwächeren Rechnern eine gute Figur machen soll. Und die hat es von der Live-CD gemacht: WLAN war da, Sound auch. Nur installieren ließ es sich nicht: Bei 15% (&#8220;Ermittle Dateisysteme&#8221;) gab es einen reproduzierbaren Totalausfall. Ich habe darauf die Partitionstabelle einmal manuell komplett gelöscht &#8211; damit ging die Installation bis 85% &#8211; und wieder Totalabsturz.</p>
<p>Danach mal Mandriva ausprobiert. Das ließ sich prima installieren, nur WLAN wollte partout nicht funktionieren. Das Netz hat er gefunden, aber die WPA-Verschlüsselung hat er nicht einmal als Einstellung angenommen. Immerhin: Eine DVD habe ich unter Mandriva schonmal geschaut und das hat funktioniert.</p>
<p>Letztlich erschien mir Xubuntu am nächsten dran zu sein an der Funktionsfähigkeit. Xfce hat mich aber nicht so ganz überzeugt, sodass ich dann Ubuntu in der Text-Installations-Variante gezogen habe. Und siehe da: Die Installation hat funktioniert (allerdings nur mit Kabelnetzwerk während der Installation, WLAN geht in dem Stadium nicht). Sound und WLAN funktionieren, dem Mediaplayer (Totem) muss ich mal noch einige Codecs beibringen.</p>
<p>Fazit: Nichts für schwache Nerven und nichts für ungeübte Benutzer &#8211; immer noch nicht. Die Notebook-Unterstützung ist zwar schon ziemlich gut (Energiemanagement hat überall auf Anhieb funktioniert), aber WLAN mit WPA ist nunmal ein &#8220;must&#8221;, erst recht bei einem gängigen WLAN-Chipsatz, dessen Hersteller (Ratech) Open Source Treiber zur Verfügung stellt. Den Glaubenskrieg zwischen GNOME und KDE habe ich für mich auch diesmal nicht entscheiden können. Xfce ist für (noch) ältere Hardware sicher eine nette Alternative.</p>
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