Posts made by G I Jones

@Pete-S So just to be clear, you recommend just downloading the C612 driver and loading that during OS install wizard?

@travisdh1 Just confirmed with HP tech support that you do indeed need RAID drivers that don't typically exist on a base Win10 install disk. They are having me download a bootable they sent me.

@travisdh1 Thanks, I’m going to start running in this direction.

@DustinB3403 The original drive is formatted NTFS, GPT, with Typical Windows partitions. System Reserve, Primary, etc. although none of these seem to exist in the eyes of this machine.

Long story short; We recently got hit with Ryuk Ransomeware. We were able to roll back most important things, but we had a select couple of machines (HP Z440’s ) that weren’t protected. Some others as well, but This is about the Z440’s.

I’m going with a clean install, but keep smacking a wall. Upon trying to boot (either UEFI or BIOS) from Windows 10 install disk, there are no drives present.

Diskpart says there is nothing at all and lists the computer as MINWINPC, or after a failed sfc /scannow, MININT-686HUMM. No drives, no partitions, no volumes except the DVD drive. But when I take the HDD out and plug it into my computer, it shows up. I’ve tried Converting it to GPT and even reformatting to NTFS. I’ve tried multiple hard drives, swapped sata cables, and still can’t figure out what is going on here.

Bootrec finds nothing either. Every command fails to see a drive or Windows OS.

The reason I don’t think it’s the motherboard is because this happened to the only 3 Z440’s we have and only to them. The problem is identical across all three and they are in three different buildings. It makes me feel like perhaps the BIOS is corrupted or something specific to the architecture of this build.

Any thoughts? Flash the BIOS? I’m running out of ideas.

I have an opportunity to switch up our HelpDesk ticketing system. Was using Spiceworks previously, but am wondering what comes highly recommended around these parts? Anything I can edit the user interface on with HTML/CSS would be preferred.

I figured it out!

ren *.zip.jpg *.

I'm trying to remove an additional extension from a batch of files using command line.

When using command line to remove the additional .jpg extension on Document.zip.jpg as so:

ren *.zip.jpg *.zip

It actually just makes the file type a .zip, so the actual name would be Document.zip.jpg with a file type of .zip

I'm looking for a way to instead REMOVE the .jpg part of the name altogether.

I'm really not great at command line save a few select commands that I use regularly. Is there a way to achieve this or do I need to move on to Powershell?

@DustinB3403 So since this appears to be in preparation for future issues, is the common practice to just audit every drive?

@DustinB3403 Ah, you know that crossed my mind. Makes sense.

@Obsolesce @Obsolesce Thanks, figured it out. Can't seem to see anything from before today though and this happened yesterday. This is probably because when I initially set up the Exchange Server, I mistakenly put the database on the C drive (65GB) and then had to move it to the E Drive (6TB), but still had the transport logs, and IIS stuff saving to C which must've maxed out recently. Fixed all that this morning but it looks like everything was overwritten already. Thanks for the help anyway.

@Obsolesce Appreciated.

@DustinB3403 @Obsolesce I have no experience with that. Is there a built-in feature or would you recommend a 3rd party?

As the title says we had the access to OWA & ECP on a single exchange server in our domain come to a screeching halt. I looked around a bit and found the wwwroot folder to be absent. I just made a new one and everything works again, but I'm curious for those of you who know more about vulnerabilities do you think this was an attack or a poorly executed update? Any best practice for preventing it in the future, attack or otherwise?

@Dashrender Yes. Yes it is.

@Dashrender Eh, long story about Ransomware, a 3 month old backup, and how I took part in building an entire domain from the ground up. Good training. Pissed employees. Budget approved the purchase request after that though!

@Dashrender I'm not using Chocolatey so you can cross that common denominator out.

However, now that I'm looking at it, I'm about to binge read that whole web page. So thanks for that.

• Windows
• Office 2019
• Adobe Reader
• a not too heavy Group Policy
• DameWare
• Anti-Asshole software

Could be an Office thing? Has anyone tested uninstalling Microsoft Visual C++ versions?

@JaredBusch That's what I'm seeing as well.

Anyone figure out any good way to resolve the visual overlap issue in Printers & Scanner where you can't click any of the buttons because they fall behind the lower printer listing (z-index)? We have some machines that are on 1903 with this issue. Been using Control Panel>Devices and Printers to get by.