Wednesday, July 27, 2016

The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed

You can get this message if you restore a virtual machine, or have a raid problem and restore a raid 1 mirror from a slightly older hdd. I got and offline member for two weeks without noticing and then the second hdd when bad so i could not boot anymore.
Reactivated the offline member and changed the bad hdd rebuild the raid and then you get the error message while trying to access the domain.

Also got this but making an image of a pc in the domain and restored it a few month later to a new pc, then could not add it to domain.

You can try to remove it from domain and add it back and it should work.
Or (you need at leas Power shell 3.0 or upgrade to it if not) then run:
Reset-ComputerMachinePassword

Add user from cmd with admin writes and change password for admin account

To add a new user open cmd with administrator writes :

net user Username /add password

The user is a limited user. To give administrator writes :

 net localgroup administrators Username /add

To delete a username :

net user Username /del

To change the password of a user if you cannot access any windows account.
Boot from a usb and access the windows partition.
Go to C:\Windows\System32\
rename sethc.exe to sethc_.exe
copy cmd.exe and rename it to sethc.exe 

Boot to windows, when at login screen pres SHIFT key 5 times, and instead of the sticky keys message you get a cmd with admin writes.

Next change password with :

net user Administrator 1234 

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Windows could not complete the installation

While installing windows at the end of the installation you get an error message and remains stuck in a loop.


Press SHIFT+F10 to open a cmd
cd %windir%\system32\oobe\
msoobe.exe

and then press ok to the error message and restart.

Monday, July 25, 2016

Intel Raid error occurred (0) offline member status failed

On Intel® Matrix Storage raid  you can get the errors :

error occurred (0)  - the controller has encountered read/write errors (the hdd has bad sectors) and should be replaced
 offline member - for some reason the hdd is offline and not active in the raid so the hdd is unused, you can get with this one in raid 1 with mirror as you will still be able to boot.

If you get an offline member and don't do anything and then you get an error occurred (0) as i got on a Supermicro X7DB3 server you will not be able to boot in os anymore.

How to fix it ?
Remove the error occurred(0) hdd - you can try by removing one by one restart and check raid members hdd status, then access the raid utility by pressing CTRL+I
and you will be asked to reactive the offline member.

Next buy a new hdd to change the error occurred(0) hdd and it will rebuild the raid back, you can still boot to windows just with one hdd until you get a new one.


Error Occurred(0) Degraded
RAID Rebuild
Offline Member Error Occurred(0) Failed

To see the status of the raid rebuild install :  Intel® Matrix Storage Manager.
You can get it from here :
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/search?keyword=Intel%C2%AE+Matrix+Storage+Manager

Intel® Matrix Storage Manager rebuilding


Monday, July 18, 2016

0x0000007b Blue Screen - no storage device found

0x0000007b Blue Screen

This means that windows cannot access the storage device.
Usually you have to go to bios and change sata from ahci to ide if this comes after windows installation.
If it appears while installing windows you have to provide storage drivers by pressing F6  

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

How to compress pictures

You need to get :  Microsoft Office Picture Manager. You can get it for free by downloading :
 Download SharePoint Designer 2007  - chose custom install and then select only “Picture Manger”



Next you have to select how much to compress depending on what usage you have for the picture in mind.