Tag: Windows Home Server
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How to recover space from system on Windows Home Server
Follow the process recommended by Nem1234 in this thread and reproduced below and then run checkdisk on the C: You will have to reboot and it will take many hours to complete __ How to find the space….. 🙂 My piece of the pie chart showing SYSTEM space used ( seen on the WHS ‘Server…
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Windows Home Server PC Restore does not work
The short version Last week my laptop crashed and I needed to restore the hard disk. I make a backup everyday automatically using my Windows Home Server (version 1). I took the PC restore disc and booted the laptop and although the restore would start it would never complete. Windows Home Server version 1 is…
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Belkin UPS might have caused data loss
Regular readers will know that I had to totally rebuild my Windows Home Server. I now suspect that the origin of the server crash was a UPS self test. My Belkin UPS battery is totally flat and does not keep the server running. I have the self tests running but the software that comes with…
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Windows Home Server reinstall disaster – use RAID next time
I am paranoid about backups. Until this week I was very fond of Windows Home Server which is Microsoft’s backup solution for the home. You simply put it on your network and every night it backs up your household computers to a server which contains redundant disks. It is a real server and you can…
Dr James Bayley 