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I ran into an issue that I could use some help with:

I copied my GPT UEFI System Reserved partition into my C: Drive, so I only have one partition. Now Windows 10 update 1511 won’t install.

Attempted recovery steps:
I tried recreating a new GPT UEFI parition with command line tool at the beginning of the drive. Then I changed the UEFI to boot from the new boot partition, but no dice.

How this happened:
I had a laptop with two hard drives. (I couldn’t just remove one at install time as are very hard to remove.) I installed Windows 10 with both drives installed. I chose for the O.S. to be installed on my SSD which it did, but it installed the System Reserved on the other standard spinning platter HD. I didn’t want them on separate drives, so I used a partition tool to copy the System Reserved partition to C: drive partition of the SDD hard drive. Windows 10 then booted fine with all partitions on one physical drive.

Question:
Would a solution be to copy the GPT UEFI files from the C: drive to a new blank Fat32 partition? (And erase the one above that I manually created in my fail attempt above?) If so, how do I copy those files, as they are scattered on the C: drive somewhere…

Solved the issue by reading more about partitions. Although I had created a new System Reserved partition on my SSD using the appropriate commends, I figured out that I needed to make the new system reserved partition “Active” and removed “Active” status from the Windows partition.

This was the key to understanding partitions:
https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/accidentally-marked-drive-c-active.html

Solved the issue by reading more about partitions. Although I had created a new System Reserved partition on my SSD using the appropriate commends, I figured out that I needed to make the new system reserved partition “Active” and removed “Active” status from the Windows partition.

This was the key to understanding partitions:
https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/accidentally-marked-drive-c-active.html

I ran into an issue that I could use some help with:

I copied my GPT UEFI System Reserved partition into my C: Drive, so I only have one partition. Now Windows 10 update 1511 won’t install.

Attempted recovery steps:
I tried recreating a new GPT UEFI parition with command line tool at the beginning of the drive. Then I changed the UEFI to boot from the new boot partition, but no dice.

How this happened:
I had a laptop with two hard drives. (I couldn’t just remove one at install time as are very hard to remove.) I installed Windows 10 with both drives installed. I chose for the O.S. to be installed on my SSD which it did, but it installed the System Reserved on the other standard spinning platter HD. I didn’t want them on separate drives, so I used a partition tool to copy the System Reserved partition to C: drive partition of the SDD hard drive. Windows 10 then booted fine with all partitions on one physical drive.

Question:
Would a solution be to copy the GPT UEFI files from the C: drive to a new blank Fat32 partition? (And erase the one above that I manually created in my fail attempt above?) If so, how do I copy those files, as they are scattered on the C: drive somewhere…

I have an IPad 1 as well. Apple is such a funny company – they seem to be the only company that actually makes a device with a battery that lasts forever, but then stops supporting the device for software updates. It’s backwards.

I am very frustrated that my Safari browser often crashes on the IPad 1, perhaps I will find another browser…

Could you also post the results of the startup times after running the registry cleaners, and then uninstalling the registry cleaners, so registry cleaner slowdown time wouldn’t be included in the comparison?

Thanks, it worked. Never seen that documented anywhere…

I disagree with the use disk compression advice is the purpose is to speed up the system. While you may increase space using this trick, compressing files will causes slowdown at other times the system is using those files. That means that eventually when the Vista computer in the article had other files cleaned off to save space, you would still be stuck with the slow downs from the compression enabled.

I received this advice from a computer consulting company that was trying to save space on my small business Windows Server 2003 computers at work. When I told him I had enable disk compression on one of my servers, he said he didn’t recommend that. Many online forums will reference slowness issues with that enabled.

To uncompress: http://www.ehow.com/how_5326115_uncompress-hard-drive.html

Currently, during the hours of 10am – 4pm we are generally maxing out our T1.

Business internet uses include:
General browsing (for 40 staff)
Occasional streaming of online workforce development training videos
Custom web based database and report generation for a database of 4000 people (used by 20 staff)
Web-based appointment scheduling (used by 6 staff)
VPN from home

Non-business uses:
Streaming radio (which can be blocked if needed)
Non-business video streaming, news, etc. (which can’t easily be blocked because of the need for video described above).

Thanks for your help so far, that’s what I thought. But I have some further issues.

Regarding point 1)
I was able to add a new mail contact for a user. Then I updated my GAL in Outlook 2010. They didn’t show up in the list, but I when I did a search for them in the GAL, they did show up. I verified the “Hide from Global Address Lists” check box was off in Exchange. Do you know why they aren’t showing up? I’ll wait 24 hours before I start looking for a fix.

Regarding point 2)
The second contractor has a user logon account, but no mailbox. Ie. Username@domain.com.
Should I create a separate mail contact with a separate Alias, and add their foreign domain email to that?

I completely second Picasa Web Albums.

While the price is cheap for additional space, my two favorite features are the ability to share full resolution albums with anyone else who has Picasa, and the easy integration for inserting Picasa Web Albums onto a “Google Site”.

Google Site are wiki-based website. For example, they can be used for making a family website with a blog where you can easily insert your Picasa Web Albums. The blogs even have an easy to use, non-RSS based subscribe feature which sends out any new blog posts to email addresses. This is useful for people who don’t know or use RSS.

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Here is how I reconnected my users mailbox. The issue was that I had diabled the user’s active directory account, and then I moved their mailbox to another mailbox database.
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I.Procedure – Reactivating a User’s Mailbox (Exchange 2010 SP1)

1. Enable the user account in Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC)

[/SIZE]2. Move user back to the “Staff” ADUC container from the “Non-Staff” container.

[/SIZE]3.Clear the Previous Move Requests

[/SIZE]Use the EMC to clear a move request
You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the “Mailbox moves” entry in the Mailbox Permissions topic.

[*]In the console tree, navigate to Recipient Configuration > Move Request.
[*]In the result pane, select a recipient that has a Move Request Status of Completed or Completed with warning.

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[TD]Note:
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[TD]You can select multiple recipients in the result pane.
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[*]In the action pane, click Clear Move Request.
[*]A warning message appears confirming that you want to clear the move request. Click Yes.

4.Copy the mailbox to the primary mailbox database
Move the user’s mailbox back from the “Ex-employees” database to the “Primary Mailbox Database” database.

On the MAIL server, go to the Exchange Management Console. In the left tree window, browse to Mailbox -> Microsoft Exchange On-Premises -> Recipient Configuration -> Mailbox. Highlight the user’s mailbox. In the actions pane on the right, click “New Local Move Request”. Click Browse under the “Target mailbox database” heading. Choose “Primary Mailbox Database”. Click Ok. Click Next. Click New.

5.View the current status of the move commands
Mailbox -> Microsoft Exchange On-Premises -> Recipient Configuration -> Move Request
Use the “Refresh” button in the Actions pane to monitor the process.

6.Test opening Outlook
When on a computer while logged in as the desired user, try opening Outlook.

The mailbox type is shown in the Find dialogue in the GUI. You can also show it in PS.
get-mailbox username | fl

cheers, Paul

Hi Paul,

I used the “Find” search window in the “Microsoft Exchange On-Premises -> Recipient Configuration -> Mailbox” window, and it displayed the following fields:
“Display Name”, “Alias”, “Organizational Unit”, “Recepient Type Details”, and “Primary SMTP Address”. “Recepient Type Details” for my user contained the property: User Mailbox.

I didn’t see anything about “Regular” or “Shared”. Plus I don’t know how that will help me resolve my issue even if I find either of those options. Then how to I do i change the mailbox type. And after that, will that allow me to “Connect” the mailbox? If not, what are the steps? Also, are you giving me instructions for Exchange 2010 R2?

When I ran the powershell command 100 lines popped up, and I didn’t see anything helpful either.

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I am starting to worry that my user who is coming back on Monday won’t have a Mailbox, so I’m starting to plan other solutions, like creating a new mailbox, and just exporting mail out of the old one and into the new one.

In order for you be helpful, I really would ask if you could please be more specific and detailed in what steps I should take and why in your responses, as I am pretty new at this and am stuck. Plus I would appreciate it if instead of ignoring some of my lengthly set of questions, you could reply to my other questions with “Those steps aren’t needed”, or simply “I don’t know” or the like.

Thank you,
Peter

1. The mailbox should just show up as “shared” if you disable the account in ADUC. Are you sure you haven’t ticked “delete Exchange mailbox” as well?

I don’t know what you mean here about the “shared” state, please post a screenshot of where to see this setting. Similarly, all I did with the outdated mailbox was a local move request using the wizard, so I didn’t check any “delete” boxes. Would it help if I shared my mailbox retention settings? Please specify where to, if you need them.

I found an article entitled “Connect or Restore a Disabled Mailbox”.I ran the command below and determined that all the mailboxes for disabled users that have been moved to the “ex-employees” store are in the “Soft-deleted” state in the original “default” mailbox.

Code:

[PS] C:>Get-MailboxStatistics -Database ‘Mailbox Database 0967836029’ | Where { $_.DisconnectReas
on -eq “SoftDeleted” } | Format-List LegacyDN, DisplayName, MailboxGUID, DisconnectReason

So I ran the restore command:

Code:

[PS] C:>New-MailboxRestoreRequest -SourceDatabase ‘Mailbox Database 0967836029’ -SourceStoreMailb
ox [I]“User Name”[/I] -TargetMailbox [I]UserAlias[/I]

Next I checked that the commend completed:

Code:

[PS] C:>Get-MailboxRestoreRequest -Name “MailboxRestore”

However, the users mailbox is still sitting the “disconnected” window, and I can’t “connect” it, and am still having the same issue.

2. If the mailbox is shared there is no need to re-connect, but you may want to change the status to “regular”. This is a powershell command which I can’t remember off the top of my head.

Same as the comment I made above, where do I see this “regular or shared” status?

3. If you use different stores for normal and ex-employees you can backup the ex store weekly instead of daily, but there is a risk of data loss if the mailbox is moved before you disable the account in ADUC.

Thanks, I can modify my backup schedule to remove the “ex-employees” mailbox store from the Monday through Thursday night incremental backups.

The code works, I had checked it before and checked it again. I am attaching a new DB with it.

I found the problem – I copied and pasted the code from the email auto-notification I got off this thread. For some reason the system added a star after the two word you put in bold. Adding code tags, like you did on your first post, can prevent this issue in the future. Just stating the obvious…

Thanks again for your help, I got it to work!

It’s easy to solve the problem, you just need to add another field to the ORDER BY clause in the query.

SELECT DISTINCT PClistID, (SELECT TOP 1 ReferralID FROM Tbl_Referral T2 WHERE T2.PClistID = T1.PClistID ORDER BY DateReferralReceived DESC, ReferralID DESC) As ReferralID
FROM Tbl_Referral T1

I got a syntax error in the part included within the parenthesis when copying your replacement code into your old “Test.mdb” file. Can you please double check your code?

Thanks,
Peter