Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Delete Local User Profile for Windows 7 Domain Users

For those system administrator who want to easily remove the local user profile for the computer labs pc, you may consider downloading this tools from Ctrl-alt-del.com. This tools is the modified version from delprof.exe that is only useable for windows XP. http://www.ctrl-alt-del.com.au/files/RemProf08.zip

As this remprof.exe only can run with the users with administrator right, I have created a logon script and put it in our AD server and assign the logon script to the lab technician account with administrator right.  You may create a batch file call remprof.bat and copy it to your AD server netlogon folder. For eg.

\\ADServer\netlogon\remprof.bat

download the remprof08.zip file, extract it and paste it to the \\ADServer\netlogon folder. The Netlogon folder should have
remprof.exe
remprof.bat

the content of the remprof.bat is
copy \\ADServer\netlogon\remprof.exe D:\
D:\remprof.exe /D:10

(/D:10 mean the user profile older than 10days will be removed from the local drive)

Now you may login to your AD users console (Active directory users and Computers), right click on your technician AD Account with administrator right, then go to properties, go to the "profile" tab, in the "logon script" filed, key in "remprof.bat".  Then press "OK"

Now you can go to your computer lab and test it. just login using the technician ID. the script will copy remprof.exe to the local d:\ and then execute the cleaning process. For those pc with no D drive, you may modify the batch files to copy the remprof.exe to c:\

Hope this may help.

亲亲我的宝贝


亲亲我的宝贝     周华健

亲亲的我的宝贝
我要越过高山
寻找那已失踪的太阳
寻找那已失踪的月亮
亲亲的我的宝贝
我要越过海洋
寻找那已失踪的彩虹
抓住瞬间失踪的流星
我要飞到无尽的夜空
摘颗星星作你的玩具
我要亲手触摸那月亮
还在上面写你的名字
啦啦呼啦啦啦呼啦啦
还在上面写你的名字
啦啦呼啦啦啦呼啦啦
最后还要平安回来
回来告诉你那一切
亲亲我的宝贝
我要走的世界的尽头
寻找传说已久的雪人
还要用尽我一切办法
让他学会念你的名字
啦啦呼啦啦啦呼啦啦
让他学会念你的名字
啦啦呼啦啦啦呼啦啦
最后还要平安回来
回来告诉你那一切
亲亲我的宝贝
啦啦呼啦啦啦呼啦啦
让他学会念你的名字
啦啦呼啦啦啦呼啦啦
最后还要平安回来
回来告诉你那一切
亲亲我的宝贝





Thursday, 24 May 2012

香港 Disneyland

已经多年没有出国了,这次心血来潮带康宇和晨宇去香港迪斯尼乐园跑跑,累坏了。
还要去香港吗?康宇和晨宇都说
Daddy & Mummy 都说 “别搞我”!

朋友说,孩子这么小,他们那里会记得你带过他们去那里玩。的確是,10 年后他们早已忘了。但是,我相信,20或30年后,我们依然会记得和孩子们度过累坏了的斯尼乐园之旅..







Unlock Western Digital ATA Password

Unlock Western Digital ATA password

For those who had set the ATA password for Western Digital HDD and forgot the password, try to use this guide to unlock the hdd. Not sure whether it could unlock the other brand or model, but at least for my own unit, WD1600AAJS it can work perfectly.

Prepare this tools

1. 1.44 Floppy drive

2. MHDD Version 4.5 in floppy image self extract. 

3. MHDD.zip with script file modified from hddguru .dump
 (http://forum.hddguru.com/download/file.php?id=1434)

4. Victoria software, available from Hiren’s Boot CD (http://www.hirensbootcd.org/files/Hirens.BootCD.15.1.zip)

5. Ultraedit tools (www.ultraedit.com › Downloads)

I have read through all forum publish on internet, mostly from hddguru and spend a couple of days to understand the hex to dec conversion, alt-Gr + Key… but all those thing seems like complicated to me. Luckily I found a blog from (http://elettrofreak.blogspot.com/2011/02/estrarre-le-password-ata-da-un-hard.html). I follow the instruction and it work for my case.

In summary, this is the step I did,

1. Download MHDD floppy image self extract and run it to prepare the bootable floppy disk. Luckily I still keep a usb floppy drive and able to find a useable 1.44Mb disk from museum.

2. Go to your floppy drive, there is a folder call MHDD with a file mhdd.zip, you may unzip the file and place it back to the same folder

3. Download MHDD.zip from hddguru, unzip it
















4. Copy the scripts folder to your a:\mhdd\scripts folder (you should able to see dump, dump2, dum48 files in the scripts folder)

5. Copy cs.bin from the mhdd.zip to a:\mhdd folder

6. Now boot your system with the hdd locked with the floppy bootable disk

7. You will entering to MS Dos command screen with drive C: ram drive

8. Type this in the dos command prompt

    A:
   Cd mhdd
   Mhdd.exe

9. You will go in to MHDD program

10. Press shift+F3


















11. The screen will show the available HDD, key in the hdd number

12. Then press F2

13. It will said that your hdd is locked
















14. Now, type ".dump"

15. The script will process, and once it is down, it will generate 2 file in your floppy drive a:\mhdd folder, 
(21.bin and 22.bin)

16. Now plug in your floppy drive to another working pc loaded with ultra edit

17. Open the 22.bin file.












The user password and master password is 32Byte each start at 000170H, position 8 onward, total 32 set of hex character, please highlight the hex value total 64 set of hex character and go to file-save selection as another file name, I name it as pw1





Now copy the pw1 file to usb drive, download Hiren’s Boot CD, then create the bootable CD

Use the bootable CD to boot up your pc, choose to boot using Win XP Lite version, then load victorial software from the menu HBCD -> Hard Disk/Storage--> Victoria






















When you loaded the Victoria software, you will see by default it will select “API” mode, from here you can see your hdd. Double click on your hdd, it will display the information and in the security it will show “Locked”.

Now try to change the mode from “API” to “PIO”, then press on “PCI SCAN”, you will see a few record on your left hand to show the controller.


















You need to try your luck to click on the controller that is connected to your HDD. Try to click on PCI Scan again until you found a record with the flag “DRDY-drive ready”
















Now, plug in your USB drive with the pw1 file that you save previously into the computer. From the security Manager, click the “F”, then browse to the pw1 file, after that, press “UNLOCK”


You will see that now your HDD security is OFF

Reboot your pc and the HDD is unlock.