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Windows: Fill free space of partition with zero

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to fillup all free space of a ntfs partition with zero’s
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Windows: Disable Windows recovery environment to delete recovery partition

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if you want to delete the recovery partition, for example due to expand the C: drive you have to disable the recovery environment first. Disable means the Menu entry from the Bootmenu is removed.
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Linux

Linux: Rescan for new and changes of devices

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with virtualization it simply possible to change systems within a few mouse clicks. For example adding new disks or increasing the disk size of a hard disk without a reboot.
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Linux: Multiple ways to mount a partition in a disk image file

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there are several ways to mount a partition which is within a diskimage file created for example with dd.

The first and hard way  is to determine the offset of the partition start sector and mounting the disk by specifing the offset as parameter for the loop device.

You can use the  file or fdisk command to examine the file.
root@ubdev:/mnt/RaspberryPI # file 2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img
2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0xc, starthead 130, startsector 8192, 114688 sectors; partition 2: ID=0x83, starthead 165, startsector 122880, 3665920 sectors, code offset 0xb8
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root@ubdev:/mnt/RaspberryPI # fdisk 2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img

Command (m for help): p

Disk 2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img: 1939 MB, 1939865600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 235 cylinders, total 3788800 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000714e9

Device Boot                               Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img1            8192      122879       57344    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
2012-07-15-wheezy-raspbian.img2          122880     3788799     1832960   83  Linux

For example the startsector of partition 2 is 122880,  this multiplied with the 512 bytes per sector is the byte offset of the partition. 122880*512=62914560.
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Windows knowhow

Windows Update and Windows Search do not work

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a good friend of mine came to me last week because some services of Windows Vista on his notebook did not run as expect. In detail:

  • Windows Search service starts but terminates
    • EventID 7034: The Windows Search service terminated unexpectedly.  It has done this 4 time(s).

      Windows search terminates after start
      Windows search terminates after start
    • EventID 7024: The Windows Search service terminated with service-specific error 2147749155 (0x80040D23)
    • EventID 1006: The Windows Search Service has failed to create the new search index. Internal error <4, 0x8004117f
    • EventID 9000: The Windows Search Service cannot open the Jet property store.
  • Windows Update service starts, but do not work, some errors are logged in C:\Windows\WindowsUpdate.log
    • 45c    DtaStor    FATAL: Failed to initialize datastore, error = 0xC8000247
    • 45c    AU    FATAL: Failed to get session from datastore, error = 0xC8000247
    • 45c    AU    FATAL: Failed to Unserialize from data store, error = 0xC8000247
  • No Windows Update File could installed by double clicking a msu File.
  • Cryptocraphic service do not run as expected:
    • Signature for Windows builtin programs cannot be verified, for example mmc.exe. Error Message:

      “Do you want the following program to allow changes to this computer?“

      UAC Message: builtin executables could not verified.
      UAC Message: builtin executables could not verified.
    • Cause: The folder c:\windows\system32\catroot2 is empty or/and some errors are logged in file C:\Windows\System32\catroot2\dberr.txt:
      CatalogDB: 21:39:37 28.02.2013: JetInit Corruption
      CatalogDB: 21:39:37 28.02.2013: catdbsvc.cpp at line #747 encountered JET error -583
      CatalogDB: 21:39:37 28.02.2013: catdbsvc.cpp at line #961 encountered JET error -583
      CatalogDB: 21:39:37 28.02.2013: catdbsvc.cpp at line #6636 encountered JET error -583
    • EventID 257: The following information was included with the event: -583 the message resource is present but the message is not found in the string/message table

It seems that all services which uses the Window Jet Database engine are affected.

Solution

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