WSUS patches will not install – Large CBS log file

debugging, other-server-applications, system-maintenance, Uncategorized, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2,

There are several instances and variations but your automatic updates will indicate “files in use/locked” information or “corrupt patch” information. This is almost always accompanied by a very large CBS log file. (%windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log) Windowsupdate.log file may indicate something similar to this: 2014-11-07 15:42:17:069 328 e9c Setup WARNING: CBS EvaluateApplicability returned error, error = 0x80070BC9 2014-11-07

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Converting external drive from FAT32 to NTFS

filecompression, system-maintenance, systemutilities, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP, , ,

The process is usually straight forward {convert driveletter:FS/NTFS} but not so when using an external USB attached drive. Usually during the conversion initialization you will receive the following error: Convert cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Convert may run if this volume is dismounted first. ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS

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