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I'm in Bootcamp near Cleveland, OH

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JWMiddleton

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Last week my boss asked me if I wanted to take an MSCE class. He said that it was two weeks long and was in our Verizon office near Cleveland, OH. Now, I am currently without a project and sitting at home getting paid. So, I figured I couldn't refuse. He gave me the contact name who said that they needed to send me some class material to review before I headed to the class. I got the stuff last week on Wednesday. In the box was a class schedule where I found that "The Class" was actually a Bootcamp that runs 12 hours per day, 6 days per week for three week! Aaaaaarrrrggggghhhhh! But, I did pass the 210 test today. And, now I'm a MCP! I know, BFD! 🙂

Well, I'm off on Sunday and was wondering if we have any TeAm mates in the Cleveland or Akron areas? I am staying at the Holiday Inn on Hwy 18 right by I-77. Maybe dinner Sunday evening, or? Some in the class have talked about going to the R&R HoF on Sunday, but I would pass on that to meet one of you.

I'll check this in the morning.
 
Cool JW I need to go to one of those!


Are you learning anything new or are you just learning the finer points on the test.😉
 
Tom,

We are going through the official Microsft curriculum and doing all the labs and exercises. Since I've never used NT or 2000 most stuff is brand new to me, especailly GPOs and Active Directory. I am really blown away at how involved Advanced Server can be!:Q

At night, after the 12 hours of class, we go through Transcentders on our own. That is our test prep stuff. This instructor gives us a few tips, but not much. I heard that some really "help you!"
 
They're really goinf full 12 hours and then some :Q .

Lost another one but it is totally my fault :| . I did not back up Donna's machine since I built it up with the 40 Gig 7200 RPM Fujitsu and Monday morning found her machine Blue screened. You can see the drive in BIOS and that's it, nothing can talk to it, not Fdisk or any Utilities. 🙁
 
Hmm.. I'm not too far away here in Michigan.. maybe I can drive down and visit.. until what date are you going to be in Cleveland? 🙂
 
Well thats good!
😀

Man that is a lot of work! 12 hours...

Not like when I was getting certified on phone systems! Went to Florida a few years back for 2 weeks. We went to class everyday for 7 hours then hit the bars and on the weekend the beach and oh yea the teacher took us deep sea fishing one night after class. That was a great time. The worst thing was when you would get to class and your PBX would not work!!:Q That darn cool teacher would pull wires and reset the memory and things like that😀 Always back up you phone sys!!!🙂

Break time you could go out side of the office building and there was a swamp like area of of a canal and there were a few small gators and turtles etc pretty neat also. 😀
 
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
They're really goinf full 12 hours and then some :Q .

Lost another one but it is totally my fault :| . I did not back up Donna's machine since I built it up with the 40 Gig 7200 RPM Fujitsu and Monday morning found her machine Blue screened. You can see the drive in BIOS and that's it, nothing can talk to it, not Fdisk or any Utilities. 🙁
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David,

The Fujitsu drives have recently been named as worse than IBM's DeathStar (DeskStar) read this piece:

Ouch! Fujitsu to replace 300,000 faulty HDDs

Crash! Dud Fujitsu HDDs all over UK

Bang! PC Association slams Fujitsu HDDs
 
Rich, I am scheduled to be hear until 10/4. But, Cleveland is a pretty long drive from Grand Rapid! It looks like 300 miles according to mapquest. I've made the drive from Cleveland to Toledo back in '94 and I remember it taking a while. I took the back roads instead of I-80 to see the area. 🙂

Assuming our business with GM picks back up before my company gets tired of paying me to sit home, then I will be traveling to the Detroit metro area for design meetings. Our project office is in Madison Heights, close to John R and 14 mile. So, it is up to you, but we might wait and see if I get back to MI. I've driven from Detroit to Kellog on a Sunday to attend a computer show and it wasn't a bad drive.


Dave, OMG! Is Donna pissed? I noticed that your numbers had dropped and wondered what happened. I had a couple boxes go down due to the thunder storms. I had Linda reboot them, but I lost 20+ hours on each system and they were both Athlon XPs. Do you need the last newletter back to get the format and to recover the mailing list? Good luck!
 
Yes, you can say Donna is pissed and I fully take the blame, no reason for my lack of backing up. And now I look at the Fujitsu HDD Horror stories and can add Donna's to the list :disgust:

Yes, I could use a copy of the last Newsletter E-mailed back again, thanks. She lost all of her graphics stuff 🙁

I've got a small old 6 gig in there until I can get another drive and it will be either Maxtor or WD only.

Story from the Register:

It's not just Japanese ones, I'm seeing failure rates like you wouldn't believe on Fujitsu MPG3204AT 20GB disks (in one case 7 out of 8 disks have died, aged ~2 years, all desktop machines). They basically lose the ability to power up.

Says Phillip Errington of Fast N Easy Computers in Stockport: "We have been observing a gradual increase in failure of 10Gb and 20Gb fujitsu drives, normally with the same error; drive disappears from the IDE channel and won't appear at boot up.


That's the drive :| , that's exactly what happened with no warning. I will try and get another drive to replace the electronics and the data should be intact on the platters.

I thought it was a 40 gig but a 20 gig at 7200 rpm. Went for the speed rather than size at the time. The drive is not even a year old.

Thanks for the links to the problems in the UK Nagger. I got a hold of one of those drives because I buy parts from small shops here in Atlanta that get parts from Overseas. I sent an E-mail off to a Tech Support Rep from Fulitsu that suggested I had a corrupt partition. Corrupt Partition my butt.
 

David,

On the last company I've worked on we bought 10 PIII 800 that came with Fujitsu 10 Gb HD's.

I've left the company a few months ago and from my experience in 1.5 years all the 10 HD's went RMA'ed back to Fujitsu, and one (the one that was on my workstation) was RMA'ed twice in the same period.

My older brother lost close to 3 months of work from his PC at home when his Fujitsu 40 Gb HD passed away.

The problem isn't in the drive's circuit board, it's internal. The HD get's so hot that the heads slip on the drive plates. The only solution for recovering the data on those drives that I've heard is through Ontrack, the owner of a computer store told me that through Ontrack's Data Recovery Service. They've got an Online Service Quote available here.
 
I'm feeling pretty good since I Ghost'd my primary rig's drive to another on the network for backup! 😉

Fortunately, no Fujitsu drives here.. well, except for (6) 2.6 Gig drives being saved for the crackrack. 😀

JW - I've done the drive before and would likely use a weekend to visit RaySun2Be and some of the other "Ohio dudes" 😉 but if you're gonna be in Michigan anyway, I can always wait. I've got family in the Detroit metro area too.
 
Thanks Nuno,

Sounds expensive going through Ontrack Data recovery. 🙁 , In the readings so far the heat seems to be related to some bad chips they used. I don't think the data got corrupt because it actually tried to boot a couple of times after the failure occured. Hard to imagine that it could instantly corrupt platters full of data, I could see a gradual decay if there a problem with heads and/or read and write ability but this was instant.

The really dissapointing thing is how Fujitsu is not forthcoming with this problem and doing everything they can to fix it. I've put a request in for a new drive to switch out the electronics, they can save some face if that works here and any others that may want to try that. Defective parts and designs happen, deception and cover up is foul.

 
Originally posted by: networkman
I'm feeling pretty good since I Ghost'd my primary rig's drive to another on the network for backup! 😉

Fortunately, no Fujitsu drives here.. well, except for (6) 2.6 Gig drives being saved for the crackrack. 😀

JW - I've done the drive before and would likely use a weekend to visit RaySun2Be and some of the other "Ohio dudes" 😉 but if you're gonna be in Michigan anyway, I can always wait. I've got family in the Detroit metro area too.
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Hey, I think it's my turn to head that way. 😀
 
I wish I was at work right now. Now that I'm a dispatcher I could tell you exactly how long the trip is with the software we have. Scratch that I don't want to be at work right now. I already put in 11 hours today and I'm exhausted. Oh well overtime rules.🙂
 
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