Monthly Archives: September 2011

Notes About Laptop Drive Noise and Performance

Posted on 2011/09/14 by The Geez

After experimenting with three 500GB 7200RPM laptop drives for the ThinkPad T400, I’ve finally settled on one.  For now… The StinkPad had a perfectly good 320GB 7200RPM Hitachi drive installed, but it was rapidly filling up with virtual machines.  Time … Continue reading →

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Windows Update Broken After Cloning Hard drive

Posted on 2011/09/01 by The Geez

You just migrated your system to a new hard drive by cloning or restoring a backup.  Things seem to be working, but Windows Update fails.  The error popup says that the service isn’t running but task manager says that it … Continue reading →

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