I’ve been able to isolate my VMWare BSODs to hard drive issues. No hard drive has failed – yet, but my first clue was when the Windows crash reports stopped saying “Unknown error” and started saying “Hard drive problem – probably nothing to worry about”  . That “nothing to worry about” ...

I had a DC that ran on a old PC. Whilst there was nothing wrong with the hardware, the hard drive used was 10Gb big and it made so much noise it was unbelievable! I quickly grew tired of it – I know PCs aren’t the quietest of things but this was taking the mickey. So I hatched a plan to migrate the whole DC onto a ...