Comments for Keith's Personal Weblog http://www.kmellis.com Info About and Musings of Keith M Ellis Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:47:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 Comment on Stupid Microsoft, Stupid Me by Keith M Ellis http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/06/stupid-microsoft-stupid-me/#comment-33 Keith M Ellis Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:56:06 +0000 http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/06/stupid-microsoft-stupid-me/#comment-33 By the way, I posted to a few online sites about this, as well. On one of them, I believe I followed up with how I fixed the problem. Anyway, I get an email about every other month or so from someone asking if I solved the problem. I think I'm about the only person (who's written about it on the web) who's solved it. Stupid Microsoft. This is an amazingly un-robust implementation of a back-up. They were clearly thinking almost exclusively in terms of cd-roms, where the mediaid.bin couldn't be erased, and then didn't think about the consequences of allowing backups to a hard drive. Which makes much more sense in this day and age. -Keith By the way, I posted to a few online sites about this, as well. On one of them, I believe I followed up with how I fixed the problem.

Anyway, I get an email about every other month or so from someone asking if I solved the problem. I think I’m about the only person (who’s written about it on the web) who’s solved it.

Stupid Microsoft. This is an amazingly un-robust implementation of a back-up. They were clearly thinking almost exclusively in terms of cd-roms, where the mediaid.bin couldn’t be erased, and then didn’t think about the consequences of allowing backups to a hard drive. Which makes much more sense in this day and age.

-Keith

]]> Comment on Stupid Microsoft, Stupid Me by Keith M Ellis http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/06/stupid-microsoft-stupid-me/#comment-32 Keith M Ellis Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:53:25 +0000 http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/06/stupid-microsoft-stupid-me/#comment-32 Um, I mean "post", not "comment". There's a later post on this blog where I explain what I did. -Keith Um, I mean “post”, not “comment”. There’s a later post on this blog where I explain what I did.

-Keith

]]> Comment on Stupid Microsoft, Stupid Me by Keith M Ellis http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/06/stupid-microsoft-stupid-me/#comment-31 Keith M Ellis Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:52:54 +0000 http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/06/stupid-microsoft-stupid-me/#comment-31 Wayne, The best I can do for helping you is the comment that appears above this one which describes my kludge. I was able to recreate the mediaid.bin, by figuring out what the correct value should be. -Keith Wayne,

The best I can do for helping you is the comment that appears above this one which describes my kludge. I was able to recreate the mediaid.bin, by figuring out what the correct value should be.

-Keith

]]> Comment on Stupid Microsoft, Stupid Me by Wayne Chickenan ext http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/06/stupid-microsoft-stupid-me/#comment-30 Wayne Chickenan ext Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:15:55 +0000 http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/06/stupid-microsoft-stupid-me/#comment-30 Hi Keith. I have fallen foul of this ridiculous trap! I have been backing up to an external hard disk for over a year (using Windows backup). Decided it was time to clean install Vista, configured everything back the way I liked it (i.e. computer name, user name, etc) and made a new back up the way I always had done. Ofcourse, how was I to know that (without warning!) a small, irrelevant file would be overwritten, consequently destroying my original backup. Unbelievable!! And now, MS want me to pay £46 to have a go at sorting it out! Rant over. I was just wondering how far you managed to get with this? Nice site btw! Wayne Hi Keith. I have fallen foul of this ridiculous trap! I have been backing up to an external hard disk for over a year (using Windows backup). Decided it was time to clean install Vista, configured everything back the way I liked it (i.e. computer name, user name, etc) and made a new back up the way I always had done. Ofcourse, how was I to know that (without warning!) a small, irrelevant file would be overwritten, consequently destroying my original backup. Unbelievable!! And now, MS want me to pay £46 to have a go at sorting it out!
Rant over. I was just wondering how far you managed to get with this? Nice site btw!
Wayne

]]> Comment on More Photos of Noah by Lara http://www.kmellis.com/2007/04/08/more-photos-of-noah/#comment-23 Lara Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:15:06 +0000 http://www.kmellis.com/2007/04/08/more-photos-of-noah/#comment-23 Noah is so cute. I know that he is a much bigger boy by now! He was so teeny and adorable when he was brand-new! HOW CUTE!! I love the last one with his hands clasped. SWEET! Noah is so cute. I know that he is a much bigger boy by now! He was so teeny and adorable when he was brand-new! HOW CUTE!! I love the last one with his hands clasped. SWEET!

]]> Comment on Woohoo! by Glenn Davey http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/09/woohoo/#comment-22 Glenn Davey Sat, 12 Jan 2008 01:45:06 +0000 http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/09/woohoo/#comment-22 Hey thanks for the report. I work as a computer tech and thought I'd lost all chance of recovering someone's data that I'd backed up! Fortunately I was able to brave through the hex editor method and found the appropriate string in the catalog etc and voila! all working :D thankyou kindly! cheers glenn Hey thanks for the report. I work as a computer tech and thought I’d lost all chance of recovering someone’s data that I’d backed up! Fortunately I was able to brave through the hex editor method and found the appropriate string in the catalog etc and voila! all working :D

thankyou kindly!
cheers
glenn

]]> Comment on Woohoo! by Kevin http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/09/woohoo/#comment-11 Kevin Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:15:24 +0000 http://www.kmellis.com/2007/07/09/woohoo/#comment-11 You Rock! Thank you so much for posting this. Congrats on your restore. We were getting a similar error. Your Idea of hex editor helped us get through our restore. We had renamed the created folders after the backup. While in Hex, we were able to see what the old paths were and correct the path/folder file names. Thank you again for the idea. You Rock! Thank you so much for posting this. Congrats on your restore. We were getting a similar error. Your Idea of hex editor helped us get through our restore. We had renamed the created folders after the backup. While in Hex, we were able to see what the old paths were and correct the path/folder file names. Thank you again for the idea.

]]> Comment on Yeah, this is a blog. by Anita Alvarez http://www.kmellis.com/2007/03/14/yeah-this-is-a-blog/#comment-7 Anita Alvarez Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:27:54 +0000 http://www.kmellis.com/2007/03/14/yeah-this-is-a-blog/#comment-7 So what is with the photos of children? Who is Samantha and Jennifer? Do they help you in your road to truth and peace? Interesting about your 12 yr progress, if you want to call it that. I myself find that each day I learn something new, but, instead of teaching me to be thankful, I just feel less intelligent. So what is with the photos of children? Who is Samantha and Jennifer? Do they help you in your road to truth and peace?
Interesting about your 12 yr progress, if you want to call it that.
I myself find that each day I learn something new, but, instead of teaching me to be thankful, I just feel less intelligent.

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