Western Digital Network Drive - How to restore to default factory settings

There are times when we really need to reset a network storage device from Western Digital for many reasons and this is how you are going to do it.

Access the storage device on the network via http. In my case the IP address assigned on the network via DHCP is http://192.168.11.135

From there navigate to Settings/Utilities

Under Factory Restore you have the option to do a Quick Factory Restore or Full Factory Restore.

The difference between the two option is that for Quick Factory Restore you still have the option to recover back the data while Full Factory Restore will totally erase the data on the HDD thus it can no longer be recovered.

In my case I have selected Quick Factory Restore then click on the Start button.

This will start the restore process.

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Symantec Ghost Install Windows 7 from image

Symantec Ghost imaging comes with the CD/DVD for boot up and external drive for storing the images

NOTE: Using Symantec Ghost Imaging will wipe out all the data on laptop’s hard drive

Press on F12 during the boot process

Insert the CD/DVD Symantec Ghost Disc

On the menu select CD/DVD for boot up then press enter

On Symantec Ghost main menu navigate to Local > Disk > From Image

Locate the image file by navigating to the external drive connected that is connected to the laptop

Select the appropriate image to be installed

Select the local destination drive by clicking on the drive number then click on OK.

This will start the imaging/installation process on the machine.

How To - Administer AD on Windows 7 x64 natively with Exchange and Dial-In tabs present

Most of us on Windows 7 x64 trying to administer Active Directory normally resort to XP Mode, or log onto Exchange directly - because unfortunately the exchange and dial-in tabs from 2003 are not supported in the new Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 x64 (officially anyway).

I know we are moving to Exchange 2010 sometime, so although a bit late in the day I have managed to work around this, and I now have AD running natively on Windows 7 x64, with both the exchange and the dial in tabs fully functional.

Below are some implementation instructions - hope this helps those of you that are interested or don’t have it working already.

These instructions are for Windows 7 x64 users ONLY, x86 users need not apply.

If you already have the Remote Server Administration Tools installed, you can skip step 1 but you still need to update to the latest version using the link.

Disclaimer

·         Use at your own risk!! I have been running it for 2 days now, with no issues or crashes so far.


Step 1 (Install Remote Server Administration Tools)

·         Close all running apps, make sure Windows 7 x64 has been updated to SP1.

·         To get Active Directory Users and Computers displaying under Windows 7, install the Remote Server Administration Tools from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=7d2f6ad7-656b-4313-a005-4e344e43997d&displaylang=en

Make sure you download the x64 version.

·         Once installed, you need to add some extra windows components:

Go to Control Panel > Programs and Features – then on the left click ‘Turn Windows Features On or Off’.

Then when the window comes up expand ‘Remote Server Administration Tools’, then 'Role Administration Tools'.

You only need to enable ‘DHCP Server Tools’, ‘DNS Server Tools’, and ‘AD DS Tools > AD DS Snap Ins and Command Line Tools’ within the AD DS and AD LDS Tools > AD DS Tools tree.

This will let you carry out basic AD tasks, minus exchange, dial-in etc.


Step 2 (Install Exchange System Manager)

·         Download the Exchange System Manager for Windows Vista here:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=17836

·         Once downloaded, extract the files and put the .msi somewhere on your HDD

·         Launch an elevated command prompt, locate the directory you extracted the .msi.

Run this command:
esmvista.msi /q

This circumvents the OS check and allows you to install ESM for Vista on Windows 7.


Step 3 (Add the Dial-In tab)

·         Now, to fix the dial-in problem, copy the following files (pulled from a Server 2008 machine) in the attached zip to the following locations:

mprsnap.dll to the C:\Windows\SysWOW64 directory
rasuser.dll to the C:\Windows\SysWOW64 directory
rtrfiltr.dll to the C:\Windows\SysWOW64 directory

mprsnap.dll.mui to the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\en-US directory
rasuser.dll.mui to the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\en-US directory
rtrfiltr.dll.mui to the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\en-US directory

·         Open an elevated command prompt

Change to C:\Windows\SysWOW64 directory

Type this command:
regsvr32.exe rasuser.dll

The 32-bit .dll should register successfully.

Step 4 (How to make the tabs display properly)

·         Now, don’t run Active Directory Users and Computers yet, because it still will not work properly. You have to run mmc in 32-bit mode for it to function. To make things easier just create a shortcut.

·         Right click on your desktop (or wherever), and create a new shortcut.

Paste the following line into the location:
%windir%\syswow64\mmc.exe %systemroot%\system32\dsa.msc -32 back

Give it a name, and confirm.
This shortcut should launch mmc with the AD snapin, all in 32-bit mode with the exchange and dial-in tabs present. The original shortcut via ‘Administrative Tools’ will still launch the version without any extra tabs as this one is running in native 64-bit mode - you can obviously amend the shortcut to match the above if you want to fix that.

·         Be sure to enable 'advanced features' via the 'view' menu in AD to see all the tabs.

Known Issues

·         When you run some snap-ins of MMC (eg. Computer Management) you will now be offered to run the 32-bit or 64-bit version of MMC. This seems to occur after you register the dial-in DLL’s, which are 32-bit. Just select 32 or 64 bit and carry on as usual, it doesn’t seem to break anything.