Invalid Boot.ini Error in Windows

To resolve this issue, start the computer from the Windows XP CD, start the Recovery Console, and then use the Bootcfg.exe tool to rebuild the Boot.ini file . To do this, follow these steps: 1. Configure the computer to start from the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. 2. Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive, and then restart yourcomputer. 3. When you receive the "Press any key to boot from CD" message, press a key to start your computerfrom the Windows XP CD-ROM. 4. When you receive...

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How to perform a Primary Restore of Active Directory

1. Reboot the domain controller. 2. During startup, press F8 when prompted, and then select Directory Services Restore Mode (Windows DCs only) from the Windows Advanced Options menu. Press Enter.  3. Choose the operating system that should be started. Press Enter. 4. When the Safe Mode logon prompt appears, enter the appropriate local administrator account information, and then click OK. Click OK when a message appears, advising that Windows is running in Safe Mode. 5. Click Start, All...

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How to perform an Authoritative Restore of Active Directory

1. Perform a Normal Restore of Active Directory. 2. When prompted to restart the server, click No and then close the Windows Backup Utility. 3. Click Start, Run, and enter cmd in the Run dialog box. Click OK. 4. To open the Ntdsutil command-line utility, enter ntdsutil. 5. Enter authoritative restore. 6. To specify Active Directory, or components of Active Directory as authoritative, use one of the following methods:  Enter restore database; this sets the domain and all configuration...

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How to perform a Normal Restore of Active Directory

1.Reboot the computer 2.During startup, press F8 when prompted to, and then select Directory Services Restore Mode (Windows DCs only) from the Windows Advanced Options menu. Press Enter. 3.Choose the operating system that should be started. Press Enter 4.When the Safe Mode logon prompt appears, enter the appropriate local administrator account information, and then click OK. 5.Click OK when a messag e appears, advising that Windows is running in Safe Mode 6.Click Start, All Programs, Accessories,...

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INSTALLING A VIRTUAL OPERATING SYSTEM(HYPER-V) IN WINDOWS 2008

Open Server Manager and then navigate through the console tree to Roles -> Hyper-V -> Microsoft Hyper-V Server. If this is the first time that you have used Hyper-V, then you will be prompted to accept Hyper-V License Agreement. Once you accept the license agreement, the various Hyper-V options will be made available to you. The first thing that you must do is to click on the Connect to Server link, located in the Actions pane. When you do, you will be prompted to select the computer that...

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Desktop Virtualization

Many IT organizations now-a-days are looking at desktop virtualization to upgrade their entire approach to desktop management. Today, individual desktops are hard-coded combinations of OS, apps and user settings, and managed one-by-one on an ongoing basis. Desktop virtualization is a solution where one moving part doesn’t have to disrupt any of the other moving parts in order to make a change. It is the concept of separating a personal computer desktop environment from the physical machine through...

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Add the Command Prompt to the Windows Explorer Right-Click Menu

A hidden functionality in Windows allows you to right click on a directory, and select “Command Prompt Here” from the menu. Here’s the registry hack to get this working. Make sure you back up your registry just in case. it’ll show you the step-by-step method, but you can skip down to the bottom for the alternate reg file. Step-By-Step Method: Type regedit.exe into the Start\Run dialog, and then navigate to the following registry key:  HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\shell Once you are at that...

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How to Enlarge Data Partitions without losing data after Raid expansion in Linux

Scenario : Customer needs to expand Data volume after expanding array size in Linux. Possibilities : only Last Partitions can be expanded through Resize2fs Recommendation : Please ask customer to take backup of File systems/system. Step to be followed:  Suppose you have a Partition called c0d0p7 in last cylinder and mounted as a ext3. #df -h Filesystem                  Size   Used     Avail   Use%       Mounted...

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Procedure to remove Khatra.exe virus manually

1. Go to task manager and select regsvr.exe(if found), gHost.exe , khatra.exe , Xplorer.exe rt click and select end process tree. press WIN+r or start>RUN 2.type cmd and hit enter 3.GO to the the drive where your OS is installed 4.In the command prompt make sure you get the command line as c:\ or d:\ (this can be achieved by the command "cd .." without quotes) 5.Type attrib -s -h -r khatra.exe Repeat the same process for the location c:\windows\system32 6.type del khatra.exe 7.Follow the...

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Maintenance Best Practices for Adaptec RAID Solutions

RAID is the most common method of data protection and most companies rely on the redundancy provided by RAID at various levels to protect them from disk drive failures. RAID’s ability to protect data has become increasingly challenging with the exponential increase in drive capacities and the increased use of less reliable drives.RAID cannot protect data against virus attack, human error, data deletion, or natural or unnatural disaster. RAID cannot protect data beyond its advertised disk drive...

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Install Windows Recovery Console in Windows Boot Menu

If you want to repair Windows installation but can’t get into the Recovery Console of the CD Rom as was the problem of one of our readers, then here is way to install the Recovery Console directly inside the Windows Boot Menu if you want to access the recovery console but you can do this directly from your drive and not CD, so that you don’t have to search the CD in case of a Windows Failure this will be a good procedure Steps: 1. Insert the Windows XP CD in the CD Drive but make sure that...

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Hide or Show ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ icon from Taskbar

A small informative post for today that lets you know (in case you don’t already know), how to remove and show the “Safely Remove Hardware” icon from Taskbar. Hiding or removing the icon is not that difficult and if you want to clear your task bar of the green icon then following are the steps Steps: 1. Right click on the Task Bar and select properties  2. Now click on the Customize button and in case if it is greyed out then check the box “Hide Inactive Icons” 3. In the list of...

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Using Windows 7 or Vista Compatibility Mode

Windows Vista or Windows 7, will have problems running some older versions of applications, just because so much has changed under the hood from Windows XP days. There is a compatibility mode that can be easily set per application. To configure the compatibility mode for an application, just locate the installation directory and right click on the .exe, selecting Properties from the menu. Select the Compatibility tab: You can choose to run the program in Windows XP compatibility mode, or...

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Disable AutoPlay in Windows Vista

Windows Vista’s AutoPlay options are a great improvement over Windows XP in terms of flexibility, but unfortunately there are so many options that it can be confusing, especially since there’s no specific mention of USB Flash drives in the options. Open your Control Panel, and then click on “Play CDs or other media automatically” to open the AutoPlay dialog. Disable AutoPlay Globally The quickest way to disable AutoPlay entirely is to just uncheck the box for “Use AutoPlay for all media...

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Run Windows XP on Windows 7

it’s been a long time since the release of Windows 7 but there are few individuals who are not impressed with Windows 7 and want to continue with XP Windows XP is so simple and easy to use that not everyone wants to come out of XP. So if you are using Windows 7 but also wants XP back then Windows 7 has something interesting for you.  The feature is called “XP mode on windows 7” and it can enable you to continue with XP while using Windows 7. This feature works with the feature called...

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Troubleshooting Driver Problems with Tape Drives, Library or Autoloaders

Tape drives and Libraries or Autoloaders do not necessarily require drivers, like a hard drive or CD-Rom. But they do need a 3rd Party Backup Software to manage the transfer of data from the server or hard drive, to the tape drive. If the software requires a driver, it will be included by that software vendor as part of the package. When the software is installed, it will search the bus for supported hardware, and will install the appropriate driver. If the software vendor does not provide...

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VMware ESXi interview questions answer

Can I run virtual machines created by Microsoft Virtual Server, Microsoft Virtual PC, or VMware Server on VMware ESXi?  Yes. You can use the free VMware vCenter Converter to import virtual machines that were created using VMware Server, Microsoft Virtual Server, or Microsoft Virtual PC version 7 or higher. VMware vCenter Converter also supports conversions from sources such as physical machines and certain 3rd party disk image formats. What is the difference between VMware ESX and VMware...

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Windows 2003 Server evaluation copy expiration behavior

This article describes the behavior of the evaluation version of Windows Server 2003. It also contains information about the 14-day activation grace period and the 180-day evaluation period, and it describes what occurs when these time periods expire. Windows Product Activation (WPA)  The End User License Agreement (EULA) for an evaluation version of Windows Server 2003 requires that you activate your installation of Windows Server 2003 within 14 days from the time that you install it....

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Solve Ms Office for windows Installer Preparing to Install

It is a common problem that whenever we try to open an Office application we come across a dialog box with the following message Preparing to install… Please wait while Windows configures Office Edition These messages may appear if any one (or all) of the following DWORD values in the registry is missing from the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\LanguageResources key UILanguage HelpLanguage InstallLanguage Solution:  1. The problem has been solved...

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Set and Save Process Priority Permanently

There are several processes running in the system at a specific time and Windows automatically sets the priority of each process Priority to any process can be set using the Task Manager however it will be till the process gets completed and if you run the process again it will start again with the default priority. So if you want to save some priority to a process. This compact program allows you to save the priority you specify for any process. Steps:  1.Start the Task Manager 2.Right...

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Thin Clint Concepts and Overview

Thin Clients are low powered computers that do not have a hard disk drive. Since there is no hard disk drive, there is also no operating system. Since these are low powered systems, all processing is done on the server instead of the thin client itself. Certain types of thin clients (running on embedded X P or embedded Linux) may have full fledged OS capabilities complete with installed applications such as Microsoft or Open Office and browsers such as Internet Explorer and/or Mozilla Firefox.  BOOTING...

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Windows & systen admin Interview Questions and Answers- Part 2

what is RIS and what are its requirements RIS is a remote installation service, which is used to install operation system remotely Client requirements  PXE DHCP-based boot ROM version 1.00 or later NIC, or a network adapter that is supported by the RIS boot disk. Should meet minimum operating system requirements Software Requirements  Below network services must be active on RIS server or any server in the network Domain Name System (DNS Service) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol...

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