Since upgrading to Windows 8.1 at home, I’ve had issues with backing up the computer using my Home Server (not that I helped by introducing a GPT disk and a UEFI rig at the same time…). The symptoms were that the client backup process appeared stuck at 1% progress for a long time before eventually failing. I finally …

Those of you who know me or Rik will know that we’re both very keen on Windows Home Server. I’ve seen some time related issues with my Home Server recently, with message in the event log telling me that the time of the system (which seems to drift more than I’d like) could not be updated due to a variety of issues. …

I recently saw some disk related errors on my Windows Home Server. Following the usual course of action, which is to check the disks using the folowing batch file: net stop pdl net stop whsbackup chkdsk D: /x /r chkdsk C: /x /r for /d %%1 in (C:\fs*) do start chkdsk /x /r %%1 all seemed fine. Only minor disk problems …

I have an HP ML115 G5 acting as a Home Server which started showing disk related issues as the disks approached being full. Following a tip from Rik, I updated the BIOS to the latest version available from the HP site. While this seems to have fixed the disk related issues, updating the BIOS seemed to cause some BMC …