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Clearly running Red Hat Enterprise Linux on my laptop wasn&#8217;t politically correct (I might have got away with Novell Enterprise Linux) so I needed to rebuild on Windows Vista.<\/p>\n<p>As many of my corporate applications still require Windows XP and IE 6, I run a domain-joined (Windows XP) virtual machine to access them.  I had been using VMware Server as the host but as VMware recently sent me a license for VMware Workstation 6.0 (as <a href=\"http:\/\/mylearn1.vmware.com\/portals\/certification\/\">a VCP benefit<\/a>) I decided to use that instead following the Vista rebuild.  I backed up the virtual machine files to an external disk, rebuilt on Windows (including reformatting the internal disk) got 94% of the way through the restoration of the VM and then I was presented with this message:<\/p>\n<p><em>Error 0x80070079: The semaphore period has expired.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not good.  I was in the middle of a restore &#8211; those files <em>were<\/em> my backup and the three problem files represented 30% of the virtual disk that makes up my D: drive (i.e. my data).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d written the files without errors but clearly something was wrong when reading them.  I thought of buying a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spinrite.info\/\">SpinRite<\/a> to check that the disk was fine but, before parting with any cash, I tried reading them on another machine and thankfully they restored without any difficulty.  I don&#8217;t know if the issue was with my Vista machine&#8217;s USB device drivers (the successful restore was on my wife&#8217;s Windows XP machine), a timing issue (my wife&#8217;s machine is older and the external disk was USB 1.1) or something else (like that this is a 60GB FAT32 volume and Windows has a limit of 32GB for FAT32 volume creation &#8211; as the virtual machine files totalled 36.5GB in size, maybe the three 1.99GB files that Vista couldn&#8217;t read were physically located across and after the 32GB point on the disk) but my experience goes to show that it&#8217;s worth trying another machine before giving up totally on the data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t generally talk about my work (at least not directly) on this blog but, a couple of weeks back, I moved into a new role, which is going to involve working very closely with a certain software company from Redmond (and no, it won&#8217;t have any effect on the editorial content here &#8211; 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