December 2007 - Posts

• Home Server Recovery (3/4) : You’ve built your home server but can’t find identical replacement hardware.

  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. He Read More... Posted Sunday, December 23, 2007 10:55 AM by chrisgray | 1 Comments

• Home Server Recovery: (2/4) you built your own Home Server and can find identical replacement hardware

  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 Read More... Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 7:38 PM by chrisgray | 1 Comments

• Home Server Recovery (1/4) : You’ve purchased an OEM device and want to go back to factory settings while preserving your data

  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 Read More... Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 7:22 PM by chrisgray | 1 Comments

• Recovering from hardware failure on Windows Home Server

  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 Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:00 AM by chrisgray | 1 Comments