There is a tool to correct Error 720 on Windows 8 & 8.1 VPN (Built-in client). I used this ages ago but lost track of it until a random 8.1 machine with this old issue today.
https://www.vpnhosting.cz/index.php/clanky/wan-miniport-repair-tool-solve-vpn-and-dial-up-error-code-720-and-similar-ppperrors.html
Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows. Show all posts
Wednesday, 2 May 2018
Sunday, 30 April 2017
Booting the Raspberry Pi from a USB hard disk or pen drive.
There are a number of Raspberry Pi SD card images which are pretty big, some as much as 128GB such as Hyperpie.
So do you spend £40 on a SD card which might end up being 1MB too small or do you use that old 256GB external USB drive you have in the cupboard. You use the HDD of course.
There are two ways to get the Pi to boot from a USB mass storage device, one is via a one-time setting which afaik cannot be changed back, I won't go near that.
The other option is so simple it's obviously the correct choice for most usages.
You will need an SD card to start the Pi and point it to the USB drive. This can be small, slow and old, it really does not make any difference.
So here's what I did (in Windows).
1, Use Etcher in Dangerous Mode to write your image to the external HDD in the same way you would to an SD card.
2, Mount the drive and copy all files from the Boot partition to the root of the SD card.
3, On the SD card, edit the file 'cmdline.txt'.
You will see a line with the text 'root=/dev/mmcblk0p2' replace this with 'root=/dev/sda2'
4, Plug in and enjoy.
So do you spend £40 on a SD card which might end up being 1MB too small or do you use that old 256GB external USB drive you have in the cupboard. You use the HDD of course.
There are two ways to get the Pi to boot from a USB mass storage device, one is via a one-time setting which afaik cannot be changed back, I won't go near that.
The other option is so simple it's obviously the correct choice for most usages.
You will need an SD card to start the Pi and point it to the USB drive. This can be small, slow and old, it really does not make any difference.
So here's what I did (in Windows).
1, Use Etcher in Dangerous Mode to write your image to the external HDD in the same way you would to an SD card.
2, Mount the drive and copy all files from the Boot partition to the root of the SD card.
3, On the SD card, edit the file 'cmdline.txt'.
You will see a line with the text 'root=/dev/mmcblk0p2' replace this with 'root=/dev/sda2'
4, Plug in and enjoy.
Saturday, 7 June 2014
Quick VPN setup
Have you ever wanted to make it easy to copy or distribute VPN settings to users computers? Or even to make it easy to back up the settings?
How about a single file that contains all of your VPN's, can be copied to any windows PC, double-clicked and there are all your VPN's again?
Do this.
1, Right-click the desktop and select New/Text File.
2, Change the filename to VPNs.pbk and you are done!
Double-click the file and it should ask you to set up a VPN or dialup connection. You can add multiple connections to the same file and the properties button gives you access to the settings for the currently selected connection.
Thursday, 22 August 2013
Changing diskID
Having had some VSS problems in our backup I found this a useful tip.
In Diskpart there is a command that allows you to alter the diskid.
UNIQUEID DISK ID=NEWID
More info can be found here...
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/changing-diskid
In Diskpart there is a command that allows you to alter the diskid.
UNIQUEID DISK ID=NEWID
More info can be found here...
http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/changing-diskid
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