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Good , which leaves us to guess among only one zillion - one possible tablet make/brand/model/submodel. Maybe if you could post the EXACT make/model of the device you have it would be easier Anyway: 1) Is it a Dell Venue 11 Pro? jaclaz

@Trip NO, it is actually the opposite. Those signs are generally intended for people visiting patients in hospitals and similar, NOT for the employees. These people (the public) visiting their friends and relatives may actually represent a greater risk for spreading contamination than nurses and doctors. Here in Italy in most wards there are those signs near a (small) basin with water and a soap dispenser placed in corridors/access points to the ward. The signs for employees only are the much simpler UNI ISO 7010 I already provided a link for. (though as said I have seen in some places the much more explicit type you initially posted in the personnel restroom). And now, unexpectedly jaclaz

1) @bphlpt Owww, come on, set aside the issues caused by the good IP Board guys and their software "evoliution" we didn't have over the several years I was around but a handful of (temporary) issues, I guess we have already enough conspiracy theories around that we don't need a new one 2) @dencorso Remember that there are a couple prerequisites, the MS fanboys would need, to unite against MSFN and actually be able to create a DDOS, IMHO both unlilkely, and - to be fair - I don't think that *any* MS fanboy would be that hostile, after all they anyway come here from time to time to get some help/assistance after the good MVP's have led them astray a few times on "more official" boards . 3) @roytam1 Cloudflare may (in some cases) "mitigate" such hypothetical attacks, but - to remain within our common knowledge - rebbot.pro (that is behind Cloudflare) over the years experienced a few DDOS induced outages anwway. jaclaz

Non-issue : you not being a programmer (most of us are not one of them) Issues (missing info) : 1) No photo/images attached 2) this is the vlite sub-forum, did you actually use vlite? 3) which EXACT Windows OS is that? 4) which EXACT backup procedure did you use? (i.e. using which programs, from the booted OS, using a PE, etc.) 5) which EXACT restore procedure are you using? (same as above) jaclaz

It could also be a completely unrelated issue with your .NET install: https://www.realitymod.com/forum/showthread.php?t=124694 From what I have seen half the people over there had this same 1301 error for years (due to a whole lot of different reasons) and noone thought to modify the actual "App" to provide more meaningful (and differentiated) error codes. jaclaz

They are here and there also, but they tend to be costly. Most are used in service areas along highways and similar (usually dispensing only cold water). In a couple of places (public bathrooms) I did actually put them (the kind which can dispense both hot and cold water, mixed, with a small lever that regulates temperature). In my experience they are quite a PITA, for maintenance reasons. There are commonly two kinds of them, one battery operated (a small 9V rectangular battery) where the battery ALWAYS discharges while the stupid tap is needed, and one with a power adapter to low voltage (having mains near or below a wash basin is a no-no for security reasons) where the power adapter tends to give up/burn (again just when the tap is needed). What I use increasingly in public bathrooms and restaurant kitchens are (mechanic) pedal taps/mixers like this: https://www.rubinetteriashop.com/it/1470-rubinetti-a-pedale that work just fine but that are also a tad bit expensive (there are even single pedal ones including a mixer that people usually completely fails to operate correctly, the idea of them being that a slight pressure is cold and incrasing the pressure the temperature of the water increases, which results in either very little cold water or a lot of very hot water). The model most commonly in use (and that is cheaper and easier to install) is a conventional mixer but with a long lever (suited to be operated with the elbows, not so casually called "leva clinica"), like this one: https://www.idral.it/shop/idralh2o-it/leva-clinica-per-miscelatori/ that is by the way compulsory in "handicap ready" bathrooms. And now unexpectedly: WASH & GLOW - The Movie! https://youtu.be/okum2G2jCVE jaclaz

I understand, but (for once) I am serious because it is actually some serious matter, unfortunately there is a BIG difference between PROPERLY washing ones' hands and what most people PRETEND to do and calls "washing one's hands" (mainly consisting in dipping their fingers in some water). The toothpick instructions are superfluous (hence the reknown Douglas Adams point), instructing people to wash their hands (and do that properly) in areas where there is some risk of contamination is seemingly needed, you have no idea of what I can often see in hospitals (just in front of those signs), people just doing steps #1, #2, #8 and #9. Steps #3 to #7 are rare (and rarely all of them are performed). I actually saw ONCE a non-professional doing step #10. jaclaz

Because people would be otherwise unaware (ignorant) of the basic need of washing one's hands OFTEN, expecially when the possibility of coming in contact with germs or other similar agents of contamination is relatively high to prevent the spreading of contamination? Seriously, that kind of sign is everywhere in hospitals, but also - even if it is not strictly compulsory - in many restaurant kitchens (or however in places where food is prepared) in Italy. There is a protocol, called HACPP (hazard analysis and critical control point) and relative tests that is compulsory anywhere food is manipulated (people working there need to follow a course and get a certificate), that essentially revolves around these six main points: 1) keep in the refrigerator any food that should be refrigerated at all times, only take it out for the strict time needed for preparation 2) check and monitor constantly the temperature of refrigerators 3) check and monitor expiration date of any product, never use any ingredient past its "Best before" date 4) anything made "in-house" must be labeled with "preparation date" (and there is a book about acceptable validity/duration of these) 5) always clean accurately any surface, container, appliance and tool ever coming in contact with food before and after using it 6) use (lattice) gloves whenever possible when touching food and wash your hands (with a sanitizing solution) as often as you can and always before and after having touched any food (there are a lot of other points about the need to store some items separately from some others - as an example unwashed eggs - and a whole set of rules about keeping separate possible allergens, but the essence is in the above) The 7th unwritten point is: 7) in any case and while wondering on the implications of this or that provision in the HACCP manual, wash your hands. As a matter of fact that kind of sign (with the text and instructions) is mainly used in hospitals (aimed to visitors/public), in the other places (since they are intended for the workers) the UNI ISO 7010 standard ones are used instead: https://www.seton.it/pittogrammi-tavola-uni-iso-7010-lavaggio-mani-obbligatorio-m011.html#PLPIC100M011 jaclaz

Good news. But rest assured, with the upgraded software it won't brick anymore and will last like *any other* disk drive, i.e. an unknown and completely random number of years, months, days or hours . The original issue was only a "software/firmware" defect, once that has been solved through the update the disk drive in itself is not worse (nor better) than any other drive. Being a USB caddy, most probably the disk was very rarely powered up (hence it didn't brick earlier) so it should have also very few hours of service, jaclaz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Semmelweis jaclaz

Yep , but again (like in your first post) you are using improperly the term "cluster", while the issue revolves around the "sector" or "block" size. Most probably you miss (in the Windows 7 that you DO NOT use) this hotfix: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/982018/an-update-that-improves-the-compatibility-of-windows-7-and-windows-ser which - notwithstanding it says it is only for 512AF disks- should apply also to 4K disks, mainly because it has newer drivers (SATA) and also some changes in the USB stack. But we will need a confirmation/denial by someone that actually uses Windows 7 AND such large drives. jaclaz

Yep, I meant in device manager. jaclaz

Good, so it is something "internal" to the machine and the network is likely OK. Now try disabling the NIC. In theory a machine with a disabled NIC is an isolated machine, so if the slowness is network related it should go away. jaclaz

Well it seems clearly an issue related to network. That could be either a "wrong" setting in something related to network, like NIC driver, its settings and/or network protocols (and/or file/resource sharing) on the actual system or *something* on the network itself. These can be tough to troubleshoot, becase the same symptoms may be caused by different issues (including some external to the actual machine). If you physically disconnect the LAN, what happens? (provided that it is a cabled LAN, if it's a Wi-Fi try disabling the interface) Then you should go through the whole set of checking *anything* related to network, IP assignments, gateways, DNS, TCP/IP and MS network client, etc., etc. jaclaz

Wise words jaclaz

Good. Now that the issue is solved, we can comment wondering what (the heck) the good MS guys "touched" related to GPT partitioning and/or Disk Manager and/or Mount Manager (or Explorer) "touched" to create the issue (which seemingly is not an isolated case, but happened to lots of people). That partitioning scheme wth the "recovery" partition is AFAICR the same - suggested by MS themselves in official documentation - since Windows 8 (i,e- circa 2012) and in themselves the behaviours of the involved subsystems is the same since the dawn of time on NT systems. Thet "invented" the 27 and then the DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC (and conversely the 0x8000000000000001) and now they don't even respect it? jaclaz

Yep , exactly. Just in case the only somehow meaningful S.M.A.R.T. parameters that can actually (maybe and perhaps) predict an impending failure are: 5, 187, 188, 197, 198 http://reboot.pro/topic/21652-there-is-limited-lifetime-writes-on-seagate-hdds/?p=205079 And here is yet another simple tool by our friend erwan.l: http://reboot.pro/topic/21659-smart-hd/ jaclaz

In case you can try the other way round, i.e. first remove the drive letter with mountvol (this, unless the flag already starts with 0x80... will be only temporary until next reboot), then change the attribute flag with diskpart. jaclaz

Should be 0x8000000000000001, not 0x8000000000000000. https://superuser.com/questions/1108243/setting-winre-windows-recovery-environment-flag-on-partitions jaclaz

S.M.A.R.T. is a set of parameters that are monitored/recorded by the disk controller itself. You need a program to view them. The recommended tool is SmartMonTools: https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Download#InstalltheWindowspackage BUT for the intended use it will be easier for you to use this graphic interface to it: https://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.io/home/index.php/Downloads S.M.A.R.T. (which I personally call "DUMB") data is usually of no use whatever, but in some, few and rare, cases it may help in understanding if a disk drive is actually going bad. I don't think this is the case, but checking it doesn't do any harm. The actual issue (the Delayed Writing) is usually one of those "misterious" issues that may come from a number of sources, likely it is some form of conflict with some driver (often graphic card drivers are mentioned as being part of the cause) or however programs that access memory directly, it is usually extremely difficult to find the culprit. More often than not this problem affects external (USB) disks, but in some cases it affects also internal (directly connected) ones, possible mitigations (if not solutions) may be different if the disk is an internal or an external (USB) one, you need to specify this. jaclaz

The partition ID "needed" to have NOT a drive letter assigned is "27" (when the disk is "MBR style"). The corresponding GPT ID should be the one used for the recovery environment, i.e. DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC But that partition is not (anymore) a "start partition", for whatever reason the "boot" (what MS calls "system") is the 99 MB sized one (which is FAT32, as it normally is the "boot" partition on EFI systems, unless the specific motherboard dirmware has a EFI NTFS driver). So, what exactrly is on that 450 Mb partition? (it is not used in booting) Maybe you had the machine earlier running as BIOS/MBR and then you converted it to UEFI/GPT? jaclaz

Are you trying to be funny? You are replying to someone that has something like 10000% of your knowledge on Windows and Author of several drivers. I would assume he already thought about that. jaclaz

Maybe it is subjective, you don't feel like being in the dust, but from dhjohns' point of view it may seem so. jaclaz

Yeah, sure. jaclaz

No, if the disk exposes 512 bytes sector the 2 TB limit is due to the 32 bytes field in the MBR (this cannot be fixed), though there is a workaround, using a particular partitoning scheme, to access up to 4 TB on MBR stryle disks on BIOS that works in 7. Some references: http://reboot.pro/topic/21788-auugh-i-think-i-screwed-up-easy2boot-on-a-4tb-usb-drive/?p=206968 jaclaz