Author Archives: Brian Gonzalez

Whoops! Performed a CLEAN on my 2tb External USB

By | July 27, 2016
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By mistake I performed a CLEAN diskpart operation on my 2tb external usb hdd.  After a couple of minutes of panic, I was able to rebuild the partition table with an excellent opensource tool TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk).  It was simple to use and located and re-built my partition table within seconds.   /BG

Hung at “Checking for updates…” on Windows 7 x64

By | July 16, 2016
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* 2016-7-27 Updated with 7 x86 download links Scenario: Installed Windows 7 x64 Professional using ISO from MSDN. Windows Update hung indefinitely “Searching for Updates”. Solution: Applied the following 3x patches: 9,575,735 Windows6.1-KB3020369-x64.msu 11,313,360 WindowsUpdateAgent-7.6-x64.exe 500,046,015 AMD64-all-windows6.1-kb3125574-v4-x64_2dafb1d203c8964239af3048b5dd4b1264cd93b9.msu Download: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwHI1r8k8A75SHl3Q01zSFktYkk Download for x86 patches: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwHI1r8k8A75RjAzTHhJejlQRkU Lastly, If running 7 Pro run Never10 to ensure Windows 10 is not cached… Read More »

“FAILURE ( 5624 ): -2147467259 0x80004005: Run DISM..” error when applying WIM

By | July 16, 2016
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Scenario: Deploying Windows 10 x64 with MDT2013U2 to CF-20A via LAN. Solution: This issue occurred, because an Update of the Media share was initiated at the same time of a deployment and the update was set to split the OS WIM to support UEFI.  Once Media update was complete, the deployment ran with no issue.

Easy way to clean-up MDT XML files

By | July 15, 2016
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Notepad++ is a must-have. If you don’t have it go get it (ninite.com). Also install the “XML Tools” add-on and use it to “pretty up” your XML files.

Force a GPS port to a desired Port in Windows 7/8/10.

By | July 15, 2016
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In a recent scenario, I needed to force to the Gobi 5000’s (WWAN) GPS to use COM3 in Windows 7 x64.  Here are the steps I took to accomplish this.  This process was also tested and worked on moving a “u-blox virtual..” to COM, and moving a COM2 device to use COM3. 1. BEFORE your drivers are… Read More »