Server downtime 16th – 18th March
Posted: 2009-03-18 14:22
The past two days the server was down for an unexpected maintenance. I played with a few settings which I shouldn't have, and an old program I ran broke the Windows registry causing the server's Windows to be fully unusable. Also, for my unluck, I couldn't find the Windows installation CD.
As this was a totally unplanned reinstall I had to quickly choose one of the existing partitions to use: I did not have a spare hard drive and the ones within the server all had data that couldn't be moved elsewhere. I ended up installing into a partition that had had Vista two years ago that I had not completely removed. You can guess correctly that this ended up giving me trouble with permissions, hidden inaccessible would-be-system folders etc.
Anyways, after two days of struggle on my free time I got the server back up and running with a fresh installation of Windows. I still have things to configure here and there, but the sites are running which is the most important thing.
As this was a totally unplanned reinstall I had to quickly choose one of the existing partitions to use: I did not have a spare hard drive and the ones within the server all had data that couldn't be moved elsewhere. I ended up installing into a partition that had had Vista two years ago that I had not completely removed. You can guess correctly that this ended up giving me trouble with permissions, hidden inaccessible would-be-system folders etc.
Anyways, after two days of struggle on my free time I got the server back up and running with a fresh installation of Windows. I still have things to configure here and there, but the sites are running which is the most important thing.