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Category Archives: IT
16GB USB Drive – “disk is write protected” – Cannot Format or Wipe or Delete
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
‘systeminfo’ – Information about Windows, uptime, etc.
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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Error (0xc0000225) installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox
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
Carving and Merging Multiple PDF Documents – Pdftk
I had a few hundred PDF documents and I wanted to take the first page of each PDF and put them into 1 single PDF document. Enter: Pdftk – The PDF Toolkit Downloading the Zip file, and in the bin folder … Continue reading
Windows chkdsk Log
The Windows chkdsk log takes quite a long time to run. You’ll probably want to run it overnight. After the chkdsk runs, a summary screen appears for a while and then disappears as Windows boots up. To find out the … Continue reading