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Server 2012 Shared Drives

I am trying to access a Shared Drive on box that is running 2012 and I'm getting an error: Windows cannot access \\drivexyz\D You do not have permissions to access \\drivexyz\D. Contact your network administrator. Apparently I am the network…
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Solaris10 Hard Disk Information

I am trying to inventory hard disk information remotely (serial number, disk size, manufacturer...) but am having trouble. I know the drive(s) are configured under a raid controller, but can I view this information without rebooting? So far I've…
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How do I expand a VMware Thick Provisioned Eager Zeroed drive?

I have a drive that is VMWare Thick Provisioned with a format of Thick Provisioned Eager Zero. I need to expand this drive by 10Gb, but unlike Thick Provisioned Lazy zero, I can't expand that drive while the machine is on, and unsure of what needs…
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Resizing LVM and data loss

I currently have a LVM volume that is 128 GB. It has one physical drive associated to it. If I were to add a second drive to expand it, but then later remove it, would I get data loss. I know that seems like an obvious question, but if I removed it,…
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how to decompress a local drive?

I have local drive in my system. The file system in my drive is NTFS. Some days ago I compressed my drive by disk cleanup for releasing free space. But when I want to attached my sql database with server then it gives error that show like this but…
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Bind 2 FTP drives into one

Mounting an FTP drive can be easily be done with curlftpfs in Ubuntu 10. Also, there would be no problem to mount two or more drives. e.g. /var/ftpdrive1/ /var/ftpdrive2/ Question: is there a way to bind /var/ftpdrive1/ and /var/ftpdrive2/ to…
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How to connect an HP StorageWorks 8000 EVA via Fibre to a Windows Server machine for direct storage?

I have two used HP EVA 8000 AD524B drive enclosures with 14 146gb drives in each. They have 2 Fibre controllers in each. I would like to connect these two units to an HP Proliant DL380 G4 server running Windows Server 2008 and create 1 (or 2) big…
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Accessing Network Drive from behind Sub-network Router

I am connecting the router to a corporate network. Then I have 3 computers connecting to this router (local IP 192.168.1.2-4). Assuming I want to access a network drive named "ADrive" (on the same corporate LAN) from any of those 3 PCs, how do I do…
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Faulty ATAPI drive ? Keep getting errors "Illegal request"

On a fresh clean install (that I did from CDROM) i keep getting the following errors (dmesg): ATAPI device hdb: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05) Parameter not supported -- (asc=0x26, ascq=0x01) The failed "Start/Stop Unit" packet…
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Is there any longer such a thing as a nonvolatile RAM based storage device (not flash)?

There used to be such things, rare though they were. For instance I recall there was a CompactFlash static RAM card. But surely somebody still makes a battery-backed SRAM or DRAM based PCI card based drive? Ooops never mind, I see they still exist.…
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Determining Raid Disk Set

Update Unfortunately looks like the engineer in question had rebuilt the drive we were looking for, and the two sets he thought he had were actually from two completely different machines. I am now going to provide some super high intensity…
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Restoring a backup SQL Server 2005 where is the data stored?

I have two Sql Server database instances on two different machines across the network. Lets call these servers A and B. Due to some infrastructural issues, I had to make a complete backup of the database on server A and robocopy the A.bak over to a…
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how to check the Disk drive problems in windows?

In a windows server the alloted space for a drive is 450 GB( for example drive G:). But the drive show full all the time. shows 449 GB is used and 1 GB free space. I tried chkdsk with no help. When I try to defragment it ended up with error by…
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Why does my Win Server 2003 R2 have a bunch of empty folders in the root of the D: drive, each with a different random string of numbers and letters?

On this server, I have a D: drive for data. What app could be creating empty folders such as: 9308c1f8cd5c852ef53a425e 75a2dde71d4ff73400cdb384fbbc c8ad258c663ff0632c They're created every few days, but are all empty. This server is hosting: Trend…
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VMWare guest OS is not using full hard drive space

I'm wondering if you can give me some insight on how to figure this out. I've recently virtualized a w2k3 server that had 10GB C:\ drive size. Once I finished virtualizing it, I expanded the disk to 20GB for C:\ and within guest OS (W2K3) computer…
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