Month: May 2011

There are some scenarios that DISM doesn’t work in as you would expect. When I set up a reference image for a new platform, because of my imaging topology I have images that are pre-sysprep, post-sysprep and post-dism. Generally I would choose a pre-sysprep image, but then it has to be mucked around with and… Continue reading Messy Imaging

Today I tried putting a laptop bootable VHD image onto a different laptop. I had tried this before and it wouldn’t boot. There are two problems actually: The VHD file when expanded to its full size (126 GB) which happens at boot time, was then too big to fit on the available space of the… Continue reading Resetting a bootable VHD for another hardware architecture

I’ve operated a personal Trademe account for a couple of years. I only traded a small amount of stuff and haven’t had to ship anything that I can remember. Earlier this year I opened a work account and started to sell surplus computer equipment that we had had, which has brought in a small but… Continue reading Don’t get burned by Trademe’s restrictive shipping fees policy