I have a Windows 7 Professional x64 machine, fully patched. Screen card is nVidia GeForce GTX 295. This card gets really hot, so initially when playing StarCraft II Wings Of Liberty I assumed it was crashing (sometimes 2-3 times in an hour) due to heat, as the sound still played, the screen went black and the machine was still pingable. Though I could not remotely connect to the machine or Ctrl+Alt+Del it, it needed a hard reset. This seemed consistent with the display adapter turning itself off to protect itself from heat, then being unable to reinitialise itself when it cooled down and causing the freeze.
I added a huge external fan temporarily, but it made no difference. In the end I found the problem - I had to revert to the Microsoft nVidia drivers, as any nVidia driver I installed from nVidia themselves caused the machine to crash.
I have a very unique setup. I have my Mac OS X running Lion, using a full sized Apple keyboard. Then I have a Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection session to a Windows 7 machine. This session runs RoyalTS with lots of RDS sessions to various of my clients.
So to get the Ctrl+Alt+Del screen on the Windows 7 machine is easy. Either press Ctrl+Option+End or Ctrl+Option+Del. But to send that key combination to the RoyalTS session is another matter...
The solution is straight forward: Press Ctrl+Option+Command+End
I've had this issue in the past - Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2 both fail when you have set up a Windows Backup schedule with one USB drive, and then later try to add another USB drive if BOTH drives are not connected concurrently while you are adding the second drive. In specific, it states that "The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."
To work around this, either have BOTH drives connected when adding the second drive, or alternatively do this:
Run cmd and type in:
wbadmin get disks
That should give you a list of volumes. Copy the GUID from the USB drive you want to ADD:
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.
Disk name: DELL PERC 6/i Adapter SCSI Disk Device
Disk number: 0
Disk identifier: {8c00d211-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
Total space: 837.25 GB
Used space : 320.43 GB
Volumes: [OS],C:[(no volume label)]
Disk name: WD Ext HDD 1021 USB Device
Disk number: 5
Disk identifier: {3c7feeb4-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
Total space: 1863.01 GB
Used space : 0 bytes
Volumes: There are no volumes on the disk or Windows is unable to retrieve volume
information.
Next run this (using the correct disk identifier):
wbadmin enable backup -addtarget:{3c7feeb4-0000-0000-0000-000000000000}
The output will show you that it successfully added this drive, even without the first drive attached:
wbadmin 1.0 - Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.
The scheduled backup settings:
Bare metal recovery : Included
System state backup: Included
Volumes in backup: Local Disk(C:)
Files excluded: None
Advanced settings: VSS Backup Option (FULL)
Location to store backup: XXXX 2011_09_12 11:09 DISK_01,WD Ext HDD 1021 USB D
evice
Times of day to run backup: 21:00
Do you want to enable scheduled backups with the above settings?
[Y] Yes [N] No Y
Do you want to format and use WD Ext HDD 1021 USB Device (that includes no volum
es)
as the location to store scheduled backups?
[Y] Yes [N] No Y
Label the backup disk as XXXX 2011_09_15 15:21 Disk_02.
This information will be used to identify this backup disk during a recovery.
The scheduled backup is enabled.
I recently had one drive in a two non boot disk Mac OS X software RAID1 set being marked as FAILED. Since the disk seemed good, I shut down the computer, reseated all the drives and booted it back up. The failed drive showed up, but marked as FAILED.
I went to Terminal, and entered:
waldo@waldopcm-3 ~ $ sudo diskutil appleRAID list
AppleRAID sets (1 found)
===============================================================================
Name: Photo Library 2TB
Unique ID: 89A5283E-228D-46DE-B40C-9564642F0D21
Type: Mirror
Status: Degraded
Size: 2.0 TB (2000054910976 Bytes)
Rebuild: manual
Device Node: disk6
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# DevNode UUID Status Size
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0 disk0s2 1DAD80E6-852C-482C-8538-B517E0365597 Failed 2000054910976
1 disk3s2 38381E2E-D571-4EE6-9C58-D55502953D86 Online 2000054910976
===============================================================================I recently tried setting up a TrueCrypt encrypted USB drive and a script that calls ntbackup to perform a full VSS based backup of the local server to that encrypted drive. However ntbackup kept on saying "Retrying VSS snapshot". Looking at the EventLog I saw these:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: VSS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 12293
Date: 9/13/2011
Time: 9:22:03 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER
Description:Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Error calling a routine on the Shadow Copy Provider {b5946137-7b9f-4925-af80-51abd60b20d5}. Routine details IVssSnapshotProvider::QueryVolumesSupportedForSnapshots(ProviderId,29,...) [hr = 0x8000ffff].
Event Type: Warning
Event Source: VSS
Event Category: None
Event ID: 12290
Date: 9/13/2011
Time: 9:22:03 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER
Description:Volume Shadow Copy Service warning: GetVolumeInformationW(\?Volume{f59cbf71-d9a1-1110-a86c-000423dec22f},NULL,0,NULL,NULL,[0x00000000], , 260) == 0x00000057. hr = 0x00000000.
Event Type: Error
Event Source: VolSnap
Event Category: None
Event ID: 22
Date: 9/13/2011
Time: 9:09:23 AM
User: N/A
Computer: SERVER
Description:The shadow copy storage volume specified for shadow copies on volume C: could not be added.
I ran