Comments for Frozen Pixels http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:11:44 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Backups – Part 1 by airjrdn http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1787 airjrdn Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:11:44 +0000 http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1787 Joe - thanks for the post, it'll no doubt help someone else. Richard - If the drive is already producing bad sectors, just backup your data, and borrow a CD from someone and reinstall using your key. Magic Jelly Bean keyfinder will get your key for you. If the drive is still working ok for the time being, download & install Macrium Reflect free, make an image, writing it to your USB drive. Create the restore disk from within Macrium Reflect. Take the bad drive out, put the new one in, and restore the image to the new drive. Joe – thanks for the post, it’ll no doubt help someone else.

Richard – If the drive is already producing bad sectors, just backup your data, and borrow a CD from someone and reinstall using your key. Magic Jelly Bean keyfinder will get your key for you.

If the drive is still working ok for the time being, download & install Macrium Reflect free, make an image, writing it to your USB drive. Create the restore disk from within Macrium Reflect. Take the bad drive out, put the new one in, and restore the image to the new drive.

]]> Comment on Backups – Part 1 by Richard http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1786 Richard Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:20:30 +0000 http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1786 I have a PC with an unreliable disk drive, and no Windows CD"s. I want to buy another disk drive to replace it. Is it possible to: -clone the current drive to an external (USB) hard drive -remove the old disk drive & install a new drive -boot from the cloned USB drive -copy the clone from the USB to the new C: Drive -remove the USB and boot from the new C: Richard I have a PC with an unreliable disk drive, and no Windows CD”s.

I want to buy another disk drive to replace it.

Is it possible to:
-clone the current drive to an external (USB) hard drive
-remove the old disk drive & install a new drive
-boot from the cloned USB drive
-copy the clone from the USB to the new C: Drive
-remove the USB and boot from the new C:

Richard

]]> Comment on Backups – Part 1 by Joe http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1775 Joe Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:11:00 +0000 http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1775 OK, I found the answer. Windows XP and Server 2003 share the same COM+ algorythms - and it causes problems. Here is the simple and easy fix for getting swprv.dll to register. Go to the Windows\System32 folder, and create a new folder under it named Dtclog. Open Notepad and save an empty file as %Systemroot%\System32\Dtclog\Msdtc.log. Now open a command prompt and type: msdtc -resetlog and press enter. Now, if you run the command (must be from the %SystemRoot%\system32 prompt) "regsvr32 /i swprv.dll" - it will register. This will also fix a problem you had in your COM+ applications that you never even knew existed. I won't go into that here...... Thank Microsoft for this wonderful error, and, BTW, just for info purposes, if Shadow Copy refuses to work trying to run DriveImage XML, it is because your OS has been restored previously from a backup - which leaves that info in your boot record, and Microsoft's programming will not allow Shadow Copy to work normally if your boot record has been altered in any way other than from an original full install of the OS.......... I assume other Backup Program Authors know this and have figured out a way to force the Shadow Copy to work with their Programs under this Microsoft fluke.......... There are times when "Smarts" turn into "Stupids" - these Microsoft programmers don't think far enough in advance to see these type of errors forthcoming - and screwing up the works...... OK, I found the answer. Windows XP and Server 2003 share the same COM+ algorythms – and it causes problems. Here is the simple and easy fix for getting swprv.dll to register. Go to the Windows\System32 folder, and create a new folder under it named Dtclog. Open Notepad and save an empty file as %Systemroot%\System32\Dtclog\Msdtc.log. Now open a command prompt and type: msdtc -resetlog and press enter.
Now, if you run the command (must be from the %SystemRoot%\system32 prompt) “regsvr32 /i swprv.dll” – it will register.
This will also fix a problem you had in your COM+ applications that you never even knew existed. I won’t go into that here……
Thank Microsoft for this wonderful error, and, BTW, just for info purposes, if Shadow Copy refuses to work trying to run DriveImage XML, it is because your OS has been restored previously from a backup – which leaves that info in your boot record, and Microsoft’s programming will not allow Shadow Copy to work normally if your boot record has been altered in any way other than from an original full install of the OS………. I assume other Backup Program Authors know this and have figured out a way to force the Shadow Copy to work with their Programs under this Microsoft fluke……….
There are times when “Smarts” turn into “Stupids” – these Microsoft programmers don’t think far enough in advance to see these type of errors forthcoming – and screwing up the works……

]]> Comment on Backups – Part 1 by Joe http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1765 Joe Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:40:57 +0000 http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1765 I tried Macrium, and it worked fine. However, I do not understand why that DLL (swprv.dll) will not register. I even ran a Repair on two machines's OS - and it did not change anything - even with all new DLL's and installs of the OS - which I am sure included the Shadow Copy Service. Now I need to find some others that are running XP and see it their machines say it registers, or if it bombs out with the same error - 0×8000ffff. VSS shows as being started, it is active in Task Manager, plus I can shadow copy successfully with the Macrium program suggested, also Acronis works fine - and it also uses shadow copy and locking - so, I am at a loss about this situation. Anyone else happen to have any suggestions........ Thanks I tried Macrium, and it worked fine. However, I do not understand why that DLL (swprv.dll) will not register. I even ran a Repair on two machines’s OS – and it did not change anything – even with all new DLL’s and installs of the OS – which I am sure included the Shadow Copy Service.

Now I need to find some others that are running XP and see it their machines say it registers, or if it bombs out with the same error – 0×8000ffff.

VSS shows as being started, it is active in Task Manager, plus I can shadow copy successfully with the Macrium program suggested, also Acronis works fine – and it also uses shadow copy and locking – so, I am at a loss about this situation.

Anyone else happen to have any suggestions……..

Thanks

]]> Comment on Backups – Part 1 by airjrdn http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1757 airjrdn Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:25:35 +0000 http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1757 Macrium Reflect Free also uses VSS to create images. See if you can get it to successfully build an image on one of those machines. Also, make sure the VSS service is started and set to Automatic. Macrium Reflect Free also uses VSS to create images. See if you can get it to successfully build an image on one of those machines. Also, make sure the VSS service is started and set to Automatic.

]]> Comment on Backups – Part 1 by Joe http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1755 Joe Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:20:07 +0000 http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1755 Ok, i went thru this article slowly and carefully, and did everything (took some time to do), and I still have the same problem - DllInstall in swprv.dll failed. Return code was: 0×8000ffff Also noticed that I have this SAME Identical problem on 4 Different Machines, the only commonality is that they are all DELL machines - and all are Windows XP SP3. Am trying to get the DriveImage XML Program to run properly, but it cannot get the Shadow Copy Service to work properly. So, something is very wrong here, and am at wits end. Sorry for the 2 day late posting, but, I was doing all I could to get all this stuff done to see if any of it made a difference. Ok, i went thru this article slowly and carefully, and did everything (took some time to do), and I still have the same problem – DllInstall in swprv.dll failed. Return code was: 0×8000ffff

Also noticed that I have this SAME Identical problem on 4 Different Machines, the only commonality is that they are all DELL machines – and all are Windows XP SP3.

Am trying to get the DriveImage XML Program to run properly, but it cannot get the Shadow Copy Service to work properly.

So, something is very wrong here, and am at wits end.

Sorry for the 2 day late posting, but, I was doing all I could to get all this stuff done to see if any of it made a difference.

]]> Comment on Backups – Part 1 by airjrdn http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1744 airjrdn Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:50:44 +0000 http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1744 Check out http://counterearth.com/smf/index.php?topic=27.0 Check out http://counterearth.com/smf/index.php?topic=27.0

]]> Comment on Backups – Part 1 by Joe http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1743 Joe Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:38:50 +0000 http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1743 Still having one isolated problem - regsvr32 /i swprv.dll DllInstall in swprv.dll failed. Return code was: 0x8000ffff I have tried everything that all you guys before me have done, but nothing wants to get this file registered. I'll take any and all the help i can get... Thanks Still having one isolated problem – regsvr32 /i swprv.dll
DllInstall in swprv.dll failed.
Return code was: 0×8000ffff

I have tried everything that all you guys before me have done, but
nothing wants to get this file registered.

I’ll take any and all the help i can get…

Thanks

]]> Comment on Backups – Part 1 by airjrdn http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1719 airjrdn Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:50:04 +0000 http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1719 Not that I'm aware of, but you could try contacting their customer support staff. They've responded to questions of mine in the past. Not that I’m aware of, but you could try contacting their customer support staff. They’ve responded to questions of mine in the past.

]]> Comment on Backups – Part 1 by Jose Marin http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1718 Jose Marin Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:32:13 +0000 http://frozenpixels.wordpress.com/backups-part-1/#comment-1718 Good morning, Perhaps this question has already been replied, but to be honest i can not find it. Have we any way of hiding the windows (program) while we are executing a backup via Schedule Task ?, i means, i would like to have the task running but without any advise. Thks Jose Marin Good morning,
Perhaps this question has already been replied, but to be honest i can not find it.
Have we any way of hiding the windows (program) while we are executing a backup via Schedule Task ?, i means, i would like to have the task running but without any advise.

Thks
Jose Marin

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