Chris Gray's blog

The other day my Dad called me on the phone wanting to know if data could be recovered from a freshly formatted disk. It seems that he formatted his primary hard disk and then accidentally plugged in the wrong power connector on his external backup disk...

I've been asked by a few folks to describe the Power Pack 1 algorithms for "auto-migration", duplication, and balancing. In short the algorithms are the same with a few minor adjustments made based on customer feedback from our first release and the various...

Well, it's been quite a while since I last posted on the four ways to recover files from a Home Server should you have hardware failure. Many apologies, I've been busily working as the Development Lead for the Drive Extender bug fix. The fourth scenario...

You’ve built your home server but can’t find identical replacement hardware. This is a similar problem to what Daniel (my brother in law) suffered. After purchasing a copy of Home Server Daniel installed the software on to an old desktop computer....

If you’ve purchased or built a Home Server and now are having hardware problems *but* can find identical hardware you’ll have a relatively easy time recovering should the hard disks be okay. This scenario is that you’ve banged something inside the computer...

If you’ve purchased and OEM Windows Home Server, you’re in luck there are two likely scenerios and both result in you keeping your data…. I greatly wish Daniel (my brother in law) had an OEM device… so much so that Daniel is getting one for the holidays...

Over the weekend I helped my brother in law (Daniel) recover from a destroyed Home Server. His motherboard and power supply had been destroyed by accident (be careful when you're working around an open case) :) his problems got me thinking - recovering...

One common problems we've encountered while making home gateways (wireless access points) is how do you discover the silly thing? Most solutions end up shipping a preconfigured IP address or hostname on the device, some people query the DHCP server and...

Well, this is my first post here -- wonder if I'll get bored of it or what will happen :) anyway, Mike Hall and I put together a little video that shows the consruction of a lightweight NAS (Network Attached Storage) device running WindowsCE 5.0. You...