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16GB USB Drive – “disk is write protected” – Cannot Format or Wipe or Delete

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Stephen

The USB Pen Drive (16GB no-brand – cheap buy) got stuck on Read Only and I couldn’t format it. The error “Disk is write protected” kept appearing when trying to format the Usb drive in “Computer” on Windows 7. I tried pretty … Continue reading →

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SQL Drill – Excel Add-In for building and running SQL queries

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Stephen

About SQL-Drill Building complex SQL queries for a particular database can take some time and effort. SQL-Drill is a simple Excel Add-in which can connect to a SQL Server or MySQL Database, show all the tables, and allow you to … Continue reading →

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‘systeminfo’ – Information about Windows, uptime, etc.

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Stephen

If you need to find out when Windows last rebooted, due to Windows Updates etc, open a Command Prompt, and issue: systeminfo A sample of the output is as follows: C:\Users\sburke>systeminfo   Host Name:                 SSITECH OS Name:                   Microsoft Windows 7 … Continue reading →

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Resize VDI Virtual Disk in Virtual Box

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Stephen

VBoxManage modifyhd YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi –resize SIZE_IN_MB Also, when Windows is up, go to Disk Management and do a Extend. Job done. http://www.webupd8.org/2011/02/how-to-easily-resize-virtualbox-40-hard.html http://knol.google.com/k/charles-dow/oracle-vm-virtualbox-4-resize-a-vdi-file/144er4yyac1zo/14

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Error (0xc0000225) installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Stephen

What I thought would be very quick and easy, to install Windows 7 on Virtual Box, led me having to do some googling after getting the error: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might … Continue reading →

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