Create Windows XP USB Install (Step by step)

Create Windows XP USB Install (Step by step)

Required:
1. USB drive 1GB-4GB.
2. Windows XP installation disk.
3. USB Prep app. (XP_FROM_USB)

This process allows you make a USB flash disk/drive bootable and exactly the same as the XP installation CD. To make the whole process you should have a PC/Computer/Laptop with CD/DVD Rom. Once you make your USB drive ready to boot windows  XP setup from it then you can start Installing Windows XP from that USB Disk/drive in any computer.

Update: You should have XP installed computer for this process.

The procedure

1. Extract the XP_FROM_USB.rar archive in a folder named Softslas(Say) in C: drive. Now navigate to C:>SoftslasPeToUSB and double-click on the peToUSB.exe.

The appearing window will be like this:

Set the following values:

• select “USB Removable as Destination Drive”.
• select “Enable Disk Format”.
• select “Quick Format”.
• select “Enable LBA (FAT 16x)”.

Finally, put  XP-Softslas (or whatever you want) as Drive Label and click Start.
A message appears and click Yes.

Another message box will again appear and click Yes.

Immediate after that the USB disk will be formatted. Wait for few seconds and then click on “Ok” and “Close”.
3. Open the windows Command prompt by typing cmd at the Run box. The cmd.exe console appears.
Now type the following syntax and hit the Enter button from your keyboard.
cd c:softslasbootsect
Again, type the following command and press “Enter”.
bootsect /nt52 I:

Type “cd..” and press “Enter” and also type cd usb_prep8 and press Enter.

Now type usb_prep8 and press “Enter”.

4. Press any key to continue.
Now the command prompt window will look like this.

Prepares Windows XP LocalSource for Copy to USB-Drive:
0) Change Type of USB-Drive, currently [USB-stick]
1) Change XP Setup Source Path, currently []
2) Change Virtual TempDrive, currently [T:]
3) Change Target USB-Drive Letter, currently []
4) Make New Tempimage with XP LocalSource and Copy to USB-Drive
5) Use Existing Tempimage with XP LocalSource and Copy to USB-Drive
F) Change Log File – Simple OR Extended, currently [Simple]
Q) Quit
Enter your choice:_

Insert the XP installation CD in you CD/DVD ROM and in command prompt window, type 1 and press “Enter”. A “Browse For Folder” window will appear and here select the CD/DVD drive and then click OK.
Similarly, for the choice field enter 2 and if there assigned the letter “T” for your computer then change it otherwise do not alter it. After typing 2 in the choice option it will prompt “Enter Available Virtual Drive Letter”.
Here, type a letter that is not any drive letter of your computer.
Let us say S is not a drive letter in your computer. So put S then press “Enter”.
Now it will get back to the Command prompt and then type 3 where it prompts for the choice. Then it will prompt “Please give Target USB-Drive Letter e.g type U”.

Now, put your USB drive letter and press “Enter”. Here, my USB drive label is “I” so I put “I”.
Again,  input 4 and press Enter. It creates the new temporary image  and makes a copy of it to the USB Flash Drive.
Please wait for a few seconds..
A warning message will appear like this:
“WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE T: WILL BE LOST! Proceed with Format (Y/N)?”
Type Y and press “Enter”.
Please wait………..
After completing Format it will prompt “Press any key to continue” and to continue  hit any key .
Please wait………..
It will again prompt “Press any key to continue” and obviously press any key to continue.
5. Now a message box will appear showing
“Copy TempDrive Files to USB-Drive in about 15 minutes = Yes OR STOP = End Program = No”

Click “Yes”.
Now after this a message box will appear showing “Would you like USB stick to be preferred Boot Drive U……………….”
Click “Yes”.
The next one asking “Would you like to unmount the Virtual Drive ?”

Click “Yes”.
Now wait some time and press any key…………….
Press any key again to close usb_prep8.
Now your USB you can Install Windows XP from the USB drive.
6. Insert your USB drive in the USB port and Reboot your computer. When starts the computer enter in the BIOS Setup and set the first boot preference as USB Hard Disk.Now Save and Exit from the BIOS Setup. Your computer will again restart and the following screen will appear.

Now Chose The TXT Mode Setup.After completing the partition, formatting and copying file the computer will restart again.
Now chose the GUI Mode Setup Option.

Wait for completing your installation.
I think this will help you to install XP from USB flash disk/drive especially in those computer without CD/DVD-ROM.

Source:
Techtipsgeek.com

Good Luck!

DEXOS :: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Beta 2 | RELEASED

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The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products.

Codenamed “Precise Pangolin”, 12.04 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing a few new features but mostly fixing bugs.

Direct-Link::

ISO 1.5Gb - Install/live DVD for PC (Intel x86) computers (standard download)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/beta-2/ubuntu-12.04-beta2-dvd-i386.iso
ISO 1.5Gb - Install/live DVD for 64-bit PC (AMD64) computers (standard download)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/beta-2/ubuntu-12.04-beta2-dvd-amd64.iso

Other Released::

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/beta-2/

Source-Info::

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/TechnicalOverview/Beta2
http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2012/03/29/ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin-beta-2-released/

Past-post::

http://dexviajiboy2.blogspot.com/2012/01/ubuntu-1204-lts-precise-pangolin.html

DEXOS | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)

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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Daily Build

 Desktop CD

• The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use. You will need at least 384MiB of RAM to install from this CD.

• There are four images available, each for a different type of computer:
  

PC (Intel x86) desktop CD

For almost all PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors and almost all computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure.
Warning: This image is oversized (which is a bug) and will not fit onto a standard 700MiB CD. However, you may still test it using a DVD, a USB drive, or a virtual machine.

64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD

Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead.
Warning: This image is oversized (which is a bug) and will not fit onto a standard 700MiB CD. However, you may still test it using a DVD, a USB drive, or a virtual machine.

64-bit Mac (AMD64) desktop CD

Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or EM64T architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead. This image is adjusted to work properly on Mac systems.
Warning: This image is oversized (which is a bug) and will not fit onto a standard 700MiB CD. However, you may still test it using a DVD, a USB drive, or a virtual machine.

Mac (PowerPC) and IBM-PPC (POWER5) desktop CD

For Apple Macintosh G3, G4, and G5 computers, including iBooks and PowerBooks as well as IBM OpenPower machines.
Warning: This image is oversized (which is a bug) and will not fit onto a standard 700MiB CD. However, you may still test it using a DVD, a USB drive, or a virtual machine.

LTS Schedule
To support our goal of ensuring stability, we plan to make a small number of changes to the release schedule: 

• Reduced Alpha Stage: Because we will have substantially less new code, we can reduce the number of Alpha releases, and extend the Beta stage to allow for more system testing. 

• Two Beta Releases: We generally get more bugs filed in the Beta stage because of the increase in user base. In order to address more of these issues, we will provide an additional Beta release.

DEXGUiDE | Run Android Froyo x86 on your PC or Netbook

You may not want to mess up your existing system by installing Android OS on top of it. In that case, it is advisable to create a separate partition for Android installation on your hard disk drive. Make sure that the drive has a storage space of around 256MB or higher. I bet this wouldn’t be much of a problem as most drives come with tonnes of Gigabytes of storage space anyway. Once you have the drive partition ready, remove or backup any important files from the partition to avoid corruption.

Now, you’re ready to download and install Android on your computer. Follow the link below to download the Android OS. On the x86 download page, navigate to Stable Release section and download the latest installation iso for PC/Netbook.

DOWNLOAD HERE

or Go to Grab-It page

Installing Android on flash drive

Once the download has completed, install the Android image file on a empty flash drive. The embedded video below shows how to get it done using UNetbootin. You can also use the flash drive as live CD to preview Android OS on your PC before deciding to install it on your machine.

Ready to run Android on your PC/Netbook?

 *if you’re not sure whether your PC/Netbook is fully supported, click here.

Now that you have your bootable flash drive containing Android OS ready, it is time to reboot your computer from your flash drive. Not all machines will boot automatically from USB flash drives. For that, you may need to change the boot options in the BIOS.

Change the order of the priority so that the system boots from USB flash drives first.

When you’ve managed to boot from the flash drive, you’ll see the following menu on your screen. If you wish to only preview the Android OS on your PC/Netbook, you may select the option “Live CD – Run Android-x86 without installation”. Other wise, just select the option “Installation - Install Android-x86 to harddisk“.

After successful booting, you will see a partition selection dialog as shown below. You can choose an existing partition to install Android-x86, or you can create or modify partitions by choosing ‘Create/Modify partitions‘. If you wish to install Android on external hard disk or if the target drive is not shown, select the ‘Detect devices’ option.

Android-x86 can co-exist with other operating system or data in the chosen partition. If the partition is previously formatted, you may choose ‘Do not format‘ option to keep the existing data. Otherwise, choose a filesystem type to format. Let me warn you beforehand that although Android can be run successfully on FAT 32 system, yet it cannot store data to FAT32 partition. In the end, your system will end up behaving like live CD and you’ll lose all data after power off. Therefore, it is strongly recommended not to install Android on FAT 32 partition.

The next question is whether to install boot loader GRUB. Select ‘Yes‘ and the installation will automatically begin.

Please note that the installer only creates boot items for Android-x86. If you need to boot from Windows, you’ll have to add the following lines to /grub/menu.lst manually.

title Windows
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1

Let the installation process run its course. You’ll see the following screen when the installation is completed successfully.

You’re ready to run Android on your system now.
The embedded video below will give you a glimpse of Android OS running on a PC. You will notice that your PC will boot in less than 10 seconds on Android.

For most part, Android supports the usual hardware found on PCs including cameras and WiFi. However, you may want to check whether your hardware are supported from here. And also keep in mind that the Android system may not fulfill your computing need as it was designed for mobile phones.

[source By Sathiya seelan] 

my previous tutorial here

DEXTECH | A taste of what's new from Android 3.0 Honeycomb

A taste of what's new from Android 3.0 Honeycomb.. 

DEXCHOiCE recommended this because of their tech developed to everyone now & future.. I like the others tech too like iOS, Windows, Linux ++.. but I'm hungry for this...

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DEXOS | Natty Narwhal Ubuntu 11.04 released

NATTY NARWHAL - Ubuntu 11.04 (Latest Released May 2011)

 Direct-Download (right+click & save as)

•  natty-desktop-i386.iso (32-bits)
• natty-desktop-amd64.iso (64-bits)

Torrent-Download

• ubuntu-11.04-dvd-i386.iso.torrent (32-bits)
• ubuntu-11.04-dvd-amd64.iso.torrent (64-bits)