A blog for IT professionals who work with Windows on large networks. As somebody who’s always chasing current PC hardware and standards, I sometimes forget not everybody else is the same way. Case in ...

A blog for IT professionals who work with Windows on large networks. I’ve been working with a new production PC for the past week, and only slowly realized that I had goofed with my initial install of ...

I've got a system that I'm upgrading the disk array (3Ware RAID controller) on. Both the new and old arrays are >2TB, so they're GPT, instead of MBR. In order to minimize down-time, I'll be setting up ...

A GPT disk necessarily has an MBR as well, and while the GPT spec says that the MBR should indicate that the disk has one big partition of a type that a non-GPT-aware OS won't recognize ("nothing to ...