Stephen Reese

Mounting drives/volumes read-only in Microsoft Windows (Vista)

I needed to analyze a drive for a company that suspects an ex-employee may have taken corporate material (training exercise or else I would use a hardware write blocker and follow a chain of custody). I do not have a write blocker and rather then fire up a copy of …

Converting Microsoft OS to VMWare Guest

A friend had two notebooks running Microsoft XP Home and Professional editions in which the notebooks were no longer functional but the hard drives were in good shape so I recommend running them in a VM guest. I knew I could use VMWare converter tool that was freely available and …

Converting Microsoft Vista from one version to another

A desktop that I had which was used for work recently would not activate because it required connectivity to the companies KMS server which I would connect to via VPN to complete but since I no longer work there that is out of the question. Since the Vista OS was …