Friday, April 16, 2010

Petrified,Transfix..blah blah When asked to make a BOOTable USB.Ding dong now no more...just in 1min You can do sooo

Well again we meet but its just a commercial entry by the way..A jolt hit me last night when my friend next room  came panting "DVD drive /Optical drive was malfunctioning".He looked a bit pale i have a project report to make next what i heard probably ...i will be screwed if my computer doesn't work properly.Well Whats the matter i asked him,it's your DVD player not responding not your hassling computer.Ya he said but he wanted to FORMAT his system to install a fresh windows 7 !!OOhhhhh Bingo!! there is the problem.Now i told him all the technical jargon but he couldn't follow at all albeit he was very much pleased and mystified with my idea What What "a BOOTable USB " .You ought to see his face baffled ...in a brisk businesslike tone he said can it be done.For sure in a minutes of time.  
                                    Merry time tough for him,aback i tried to make this for him but i was gasped to see that i wasn't able to make it so.Crawled websites to find how to do,found a beautiful site which made it as simple as to make a Maggi .


Bootable USB guide, here we assume that you are using either Vista or Windows 7 to create a bootable USB. 

Steps are important to follow--

  1. Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable) stick to the system (make sure it got no files) 
  2. Open elevated Command Prompt([Windows] + R). To do this, type in CMD in Start menu search field and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, navigate to Start > All programs >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.
  3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:                             DISKPART and hit enter.                                                                                       LISTDISK and hit  enter .Once you enter the LIST DISK command,it will show the disk number of your USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1.
  4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter. As these commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)                                      CLEAN                                                                                                                 CREATE PARTITION                                                                                          PRIMARY                                                                                                                SELECT PARTITION 1        ACTIVE                                                                                                               FORMAT  FS=NTFS                                                                                            (Format process may take few seconds)
    ASSIGN                                                                                                            EXIT        (Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it.)
  5. Insert your Windows DVD in the optical drive and note down the drive letter of the optical drive and USB media. Here I use “D” as my optical (DVD) drive letter and “H” as my USB drive letter.(This you could do on someones else computer if your optical(DVD) doesn't works well...i hope that's fine buddy's..you can knock your friends head if he doesn't allow to do on his computer )  
  6. Now, Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands:           D:CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.                           CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.                                                                             BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:                                                                         (Where “H” is your USB drive letter)
  7. Copy Windows DVD contents to USB.You are done with your bootable USB. You can now use this bootable USB as bootable DVD on any computer that comes with USB boot feature (most of the current motherboards support this feature..it's on the BIOS settings).
Note that this bootable USB guide will not work if you are trying to make a bootable USB on XP computer



Well thanks to the person who devised this brilliant idea (http://www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm)...but perhaps you could give me some credit though( i believe you all are not a lot of ingrate..hopefully is-int it)

Once who couldn't follow please don't start scratching,maundering and stumbling .I tell you the secret even my friend for whom i took the pain was able to follow(i didn't wanted to disparage you..but a little thinking could help you i hope after this secret overt)  

As said it ought to be a commercial and abridged discussion but tacit,terse are not in my syllabus.Well for my viewers do not get exasperated so early we will have an unabridged discussion on Firewalls,Anti-virus and Spy-ware .Till then its me "you-know-who" signing off ...see you

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