Paolo Pizzolongo

How To Repair Broken EFI Partition

Ago 12, 2021 ~ Scritto da paolo

Steps:

  1. Enter Windows Setup or Windows Recovery to get cmd (Command Prompt)
  2. Make sure that both your Windows Partition and EFI Partition are assigned a drive letter
  3. Use diskpart utility to assign a letter to the EFI Partition (i.e.: T:)
  4. Make sure you know which drive letter each partition is assigned
  5. When you’ve got both partitions ready with a drive letter use this command:
    1. C:\Windows\System32\bcdboot C:\Windows /s T:
  6. That will cause the EFI bootloader files to be copied from you Windows Partition onto your EFI partition which should get it working.

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Printer Spool Temp Files Path

Mar 13, 2021 ~ Scritto da paolo

C:\Windows\System32\Spool\Printers

Stop spool service

delete all files

start spool service

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How To Repair Broken EFI Partition

Feb 22, 2021 ~ Scritto da paolo

Assign both your Windows partition and your EFI partition a drive letter.  The EFI partition by default is not assigned a drive letter, but you can use diskpart to assign a letter temporarily.  Then make sure you know which drive letter each partition is assigned in the environment you’re using. When you’ve got both partitions assigned a drive letter and you know which partition has which drive letter, modify the example command below as needed.  In the command below, the EFI partition is X: and the Windows partition is C.  Change those as needed for your setup:

C:\Windows\System32\bcdboot C:\Windows /s X:

That will cause the EFI bootloader files from your Windows partition to be copied onto your EFI partition, which should get it working.

If it doesn’t work, try formatting your EFI partition as FAT32 just to erase it and start from scratch, then try running that command again.  Again, that command is what Windows Setup runs when it first installs Windows in order to set up the EFI partition, so it should be able to get you a working EFI partition again.

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Create Desktop Shortcuts via GPO

Giu 14, 2020 ~ Scritto da paolo
  • User Conguration
  • Preferences
  • Windows Settings
  • Shortcuts
  • New -> Shortcut
    • update
    • name of the link ( myfolder\mylink )
    • file system object
    • Desktop
    • \\mypath\mylink

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How to setup a network interface on Debian 10

Giu 08, 2020 ~ Scritto da paolo

nano /etc/network/interfaces

allow-hotplug ens192
iface ens192 inet static
address 192.168.xx.yy
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.xx.yyy
dns-nameservers 192.168.xx.z 192.168.xx.w 192.168.xx.t
dns-search mydomain.mytld

Pubblicato sotto Linux, Server - con tag , ,

PHP FPDF library to generate pdf with code39 barcode

Mag 14, 2020 ~ Scritto da paolo

require(“/path/to/fpdf.php”);
$pdf = new FPDF(‘L’,’mm’,array($X,$Y));
$pdf->AddFont(‘code39′,”,’code39.php’);
$pdf->AddPage();
$pdf->SetFont(‘code39’,”,12);

$pdf->Text(5,3,’**’);

$pdf->SetFont(‘Arial’,”,18);
$pdf->Text($x,$y,’‘);

$pdf->Output(‘F’,’/path/to/file/myfile.pdf’);

to generate a code39 file from ttf:
https://www.fruit-lab.de/index.php?id=3
http://www.fpdf.org/

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Symbolic Link on Windows

Apr 09, 2020 ~ Scritto da paolo

c:> mklink /d c:\some\directory \\some_server\some_share

This will create a folder named c:\some\directory which will show the content of the share \\some_server\some_share.

This will work also with a remote disk with i.e. \\some_server\C$.

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How to connect to Sql Server 2017 from php on debian 10

Mar 14, 2020 ~ Scritto da paolo

apt-get update

apt-get install unixodbc unixodbc-dev php-odbc php-cli

wget https://packages.microsoft.com/debian/10/prod/pool/main/m/msodbcsql17/msodbcsql17_17.4.1.1-1_amd64.deb

https://docs.microsoft.com/it-it/sql/connect/odbc/download-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver15

odbcinst -i -d -f /opt/microsoft/msodbcsql17/etc/odbcinst.ini

nano /etc/odbc.ini

[MySQLServerDB]
Description = Database SqlServerDB
Driver = ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server
Server = server[,port]

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Hyper-V Virtual Switches

Mar 01, 2020 ~ Scritto da paolo

Types of Virtual Switches

External – This type of switch is bound to the physical network cards located in the host. As you would imagine, they provide VMs located on these switches with access to the physical network the Hyper-V host is connected to. The External switch can also share management traffic as well as VM traffic on the same switch and this is one of the options that can be set when creating the external switch.

Internal – This switch is not bound to a physical network card so only allows traffic between VMs and the host itself. However, a new addition to the Internal switch functionality in 2016 is the addition of the NAT forwarding internal switch which does allow external connectivity via NAT from the Hyper-V host.

Private – This type of switch is only used for virtual machines to communicate with each other. This type of switch might be useful for certain specific types of traffic such as cluster network if only using one host as it can’t be utilized between hosts.

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