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Make Bootable Installer CD of Windows XP...From Pre-installed Windows on Hard Disk

2009-03-19T21:11:00.000-07:00

Well...Guys you may be using windows XP on your PC....But,many a times it gets corrupt...and it is difficult for you all to get a windows Xp bootable disc to repair or reinstall it...Hence, i have got a way out for you how you can make windows bootable disc on your own....

Here are the ways to mait---->>>

Step 1:

The step 1 is the main thing in this way through...first of all find a folder named I386 in your windows installed drive that is typically in your PC is C drive....and if you don't find this folder...than i am sorry the disc cannot be made...as this folder is necessary...don't look in system32 folder as there is also a folder I386 present in it but,that cannot be used hence the folder should be present like this C:\I386....if it is not present than the disc cannot be made....

Step 2:

If you have found this folder...than your work is done to create bootable disc...Now make a new temporary folder named "XPSETUP"(without quotes) in your windows root drive that is in my case i am taking as C Drive(c:\)...now after making this folder copy and paste your I386 folder in it...do take in mind i am saying to copy it...not cut it...as we will need this folder again if something went wrong....the XPSETUP folder will consist of all the things which you will require in your windows installation disc...

Step 3:

After doing...the above step..now you need to create a ASCII text in notepad file...with only word "Windows"(without inverted commas and including a space after writing word "Windows"..)Do take in mind that W should be capital followed by rest of letter as lower case....save the file as "WIN51"(include the quotes so that Notepad will not add a ".txt" extension behind your back") in c:\XPSETUP\ folder...

If your PC or laptop originally came with XP Home, make a copy of the file you just created and call it "WIN51IC". If you are using XP Home Service Pack 1 (SP 1), make two copies of the file and call them "WIN51IC" and "WIN51IC.SP1". If you are using XP Home Service Pack 2 (SP 2), make three copies of the file and call them "WIN51IC", "WIN51IC.SP1" and "WIN51IC.SP2". All the copies of the files should be in C:\XPSETUP.

If your PC or laptop originally came with XP Professional, make a copy of the file you just created and call it "WIN51IP". If you are using XP Professional Service Pack 1 (SP 1), make two copies of the file and call them "WIN51IP" and "WIN51IP.SP1". If you are using XP Professional Service Pack 2 (SP 2), make three copies of the file and call them "WIN51IP", "WIN51IP.SP1" and "WIN51IP.SP2". All the copies of the files should be in C:\XPSETUP.

Note carefully what I said above. You may be running XP SP 2 now, but if your PC came with XP SP 1, you should create the files for XP SP 1. There is an exception to this. If your PC or laptop came with XP or XP SP 1, but you want your Windows install CD to install XP SP 2, create the WIN51 files needed for SP 2 and follow the procedure for slip streaming Windows service pack 2 (SP 2) into the Windows setup CDROM given in the next step.

Step 4:(slip streaming)

If your PC or laptop came originally with XP or XP SP 1 (service pack 1) but you want your Windows setup disk to install XP SP 2, do the following. Otherwise, skip to the next step.

Note that even if you have since updated your computer to SP 2, you will still need to do this step if you want your setup CD to install Windows XP Service Pack 2. The reason is that updating your running Windows system does not automatically update the I386 directory. Your I386 directory still contains the Windows setup files belonging to whatever version of Windows you had when you first bought your PC/laptop.

Now you need the installer of XP sp 2 than only you can do slip streaming process...Supposing your windows xp service pack 2 installer is saved into c drive as XPSP2.exe now...
You will need to update the C:\XPSETUP\I386 folder to contain the updated SP 2 files. As a side benefit, the service pack 2 updater will also create a few files (including setup.exe) in the C:\XPSETUP folder. This process of integrating the service pack files into the original XP or XP SP 1 is known as "slipstreaming".
To slipstream SP 2, first open up a command prompt. To do this, click the Start menu, select the Run menu item, and enter the words "cmd". Click the OK button. A black command prompt window will open.
Enter the following line into the window and press the ENTER key.
C:\XPSP2 /integrate:C:\XPSETUP After the program finishes, you can close the command prompt window. If you look into your XPSETUP folder, you will notice a few new files there.

Step 5:

At this point, the C:\XPSETUP directory contains all the files that will be copied to your Windows Setup CDROM. Don't worry if the directory does not contain files like "setup.exe" which you see on the retail CDROMs. You won't need it for a fresh install from the bootable CDROM. Note: You will only have "setup.exe" if you had to slipstream Service Pack 2 as mentioned earlier. The Service Pack 2 slipstreamer creates setup.exe for you..

Step 6:

You will need the boot sector of an existing bootable Windows 2000, XP or 2003 setup CDROM. The easiest way to get this is to download the file wxp10.zip from one of the links on http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=wxp10.zip.

Now open the wxp10.zip file that you downloaded earlier. Simply doubleclicking it in Windows explorer should do the trick. Go into the cds directory and into wxphome (or wxppro; it doesn't matter which) directory, followed by the files directory. Drag the "w2ksect.bin" file into C:\ (the root directory/folder of drive C:). Don't get creative and place it in some other directory. If you do that, ImgBurn(A software to burn the image into CD/DVD) will not be able to find c:\w2ksect.bin later.

Now Steps to burn the bootable windows install CD/DVD....

Now if you have imgburn software than its good...else you have to download it...the other software which can be used in place of imgburn are...alcohol 120%...dameon and tools...undisker...etc.

please download one of these and start the further steps....
I am considering that you have imgburn....so all further steps are based on that...if you have any other software than you can mail me and i will tell you how to burn image from that software...

Open up Notepad, and copy the text from the box below (make sure you select everything - click in the box and type Ctrl+A to select all) and paste it into a blank Notepad window. Save the file as "XPSETUP.ibb" (including the quotes, which you need to prevent Notepad from adding a ".txt" extension to your filename) somewhere on your desktop (or anywhere you like).Do not add or delete anything from the file.

IBB

[START_BACKUP_OPTIONS]
BuildMode=1
Destination=0
TestMode=0
Verify=1
WriteSpeed=0
Copies=0
FileSystem=1
PreserveFullPathnames=0
RecurseSubdirectories=1
IncludeHiddenFiles=1
IncludeSystemFiles=1
IncludeArchiveFilesOnly=0
AddToWriteQueueWhenDone=0
ClearArchiveAttribute=0
VolumeLabel_ISO9660=VRMHOEM_EN
VolumeLabel_Joliet=
VolumeLabel_UDF=
Identifier_System=
Identifier_VolumeSet=
Identifier_Publisher=
Identifier_Preparer=
Identifier_Application=
Dates_FolderFileType=0
Restrictions_ISO9660_InterchangeLevel=0
Restrictions_ISO9660_AllowMoreThan8DirectoryLevels=1
Restrictions_ISO9660_AllowMoreThan255CharactersInPath=1
Restrictions_ISO9660_AllowFilesWithoutExtensions=1
Restrictions_ISO9660_AllowFullASCIICharacterSet=1
Restrictions_ISO9660_DontAddVersionNumberToFiles=1
Restrictions_Joliet_InterchangeLevel=1
Restrictions_Joliet_AllowFilesWithoutExtensions=1
Restrictions_Joliet_AddVersionNumberToFiles=0
BootableDisc_MakeImageBootable=1
BootableDisc_MediaEmulationType=0
BootableDisc_BootImageFile=C:\w2ksect.bin
BootableDisc_DeveloperIdentifier=
BootableDisc_LoadSegment=07C0
BootableDisc_LoadSectorCount=4
[END_BACKUP_OPTIONS]

[START_BACKUP_LIST]
C:\XPSETUP
[END_BACKUP_LIST]

1. Start ImgBurn. Select Mode -> Build from the menu.

2. Select File -> Load Project from the menu. A dialog box will open. Select the XPSETUP.ibb file you saved earlier and click "Open". If you can't find a "Load Project" item on the File menu, it means you did not carry out the previous step. Go back and do it.

3. Click the "Labels" tab on the right side of the screen. Change the label in the ISO9660 field to one of the following, depending on what type of bootable setup CD you're making.
Version Label to Use
Windows XP Home OEM WXHOEM_EN
Windows XP Home SP 1 OEM XRMHOEM_EN
Windows XP Home SP 1a and SP 2 OEM X1AHOEM_EN
Windows XP Professional OEM WXPOEM_EN
Windows XP Professional SP 1 OEM XRMPOEM_EN
Windows XP Professional SP 1a and SP 2 OEM X1APOEM_EN

This step is probably optional if you can't be bothered. I seem to recall having entered a wrong label in the past without having the Windows installer fail on me.

4. Finally, click the "Write" icon at the bottom of the window. To find out which picture the "Write" button is (there are no visual cues, even as to which picture actually represents a button), hover your mouse over the the pictures near the bottom of the window and wait for the tooltip to appear. When you hover your mouse over the correct picture, a tooltip will appear with the text "Write". (Note: depending on your version of ImgBurn, your icon may read "Build" instead of "Write".)

5. A dialog box will probably pop up saying something like "You've only selected 1 folder! C:\XPSETUP. Does the 'XPSETUP' folder represent the root directory for the image content? (Otherwise the 'XPSETUP' folder will be visible in the root directory of the image.)" Click "Yes" to this. Basically, you want the contents of the XPSETUP folder to be what you see when you view the CDROM's top level directory.

If you get an error message from ImgBurn regarding "c:\w2ksect.bin", it means that you have missed one of the steps outlined above. return to the paragraph and complete the step before continuing.

At this point, the bootable Windows setup disk will be created. To use it, place the CD into the CD drive, make sure your BIOS is set to boot first from your CD drive, and reboot.If all goes well, the Windows installer starts up and you're on the way to reinstalling your system.

For any other query on this post feel free to...mail me...

WHAT ARE E-PASSPORTS...

2009-03-01T04:36:00.000-08:00

Well..Many people may have heard about the E-Passport...as it was introduced last year in INDIA for diplomats...but they are yet to be implemented for general population...But i came to knew about this thing yesterday only so i thought to post some info about it on my blog....for general public...

WHAT is an E-passport???

Well e-passports are electronic passports in a way that a chip is embedded in them...and the data can be read from this chip wirelessly by electronic devices almost instantly....well this chip gives all the information about the person profile...instantly to the checker...The chip which is embedded is called RFID tag... i.e Radio Frequency Identification...the e-passport first got started in Malaysia in 1998....

WEll...reading about RFID chips...i came to know some of its Application area...well a good example was...WILDLIFE...the activity of animals and there health are tracked by RD chips embedded in them...and other good example is shopping mall...where theaft is of great concern....well when you walk out of malls you must have noticed you walk out of two vertical plates...these plates are RFID detectors or readers.... clothes etc are tagged with some small plasitc chip and they are RFID chips...So next time while robbing something from mall beware of RFID chip and detectors.....there were many more application but these were one of the main and quite knowledgeble....

PUZZLE GAME MADE in C++

2009-02-10T11:28:00.000-08:00

Hey Guys.....here is a code for making puzzle game in c++....
Try this code....the program as a question i.e. unsolved is present in Let us C....in chapter Arrays....first read the ques from book...nd than try dis code out....If dere is any problem in understanding the code....do write in comments and if u find some other way to make dis program more efficient do give me your reviews and suggestions.........
Here is the program-:

#include"iostream.h"
#include"conio.h"
#include"dos.h"
#include"process.h"
int arr[4][4]={1,4,15,7,8,10,2,11,14,3,6,13,12,9,5,0},temp,i,j;
char c;
void input()
{
for(i=0;i<4;i++)
{
cout<<" -- -- -- --\n";
for(j=0;j<4;j++)
{
cout<<"|"<<<"|";
}
cout<<"\n -- -- -- --\n";
}
}
void sesw()
{
for(i=0;i<4;i++)
{
for(j=0;j<4;j++)
{
if(arr[i][j]==0)
{
switch(c)
{
case 'H':
temp=arr[i+1][j];
arr[i+1][j]=arr[i][j];
arr[i][j]=temp;
break;
case 'K':
temp=arr[i][j+1];
arr[i][j+1]=arr[i][j];
arr[i][j]=temp;
break;
case 'M':
temp=arr[i][j-1];
arr[i][j-1]=arr[i][j];
arr[i][j]=temp;
break;
case 'P':
temp=arr[i-1][j];
arr[i-1][j]=arr[i][j];
arr[i][j]=temp;
break;
default:
cout<<"Wrong key\n";
break;
}
}
}
}
}
getkey()
{
union REGS i,o;
while(!kbhit())
i.h.ah=0;
int86(22,&i,&o);
return(o.h.ah);
}
void main()
{
clrscr();
input();
cout<<"Enter the key\n";
c=getkey();
sesw();
input();
lab:
cout<<"Do you want enter more keys\ Y/N\n";
char s=getch();
if(s=='y' || s=='Y')
{
cout<<"ENter the key\n";
c=getkey();
sesw();
input();
goto lab;
}
else
exit(0);
getch();
}

COVER STORY

2009-02-06T22:38:00.000-08:00

What do u think is the most major step an organisation is taking....to fight the "HEADWINDS" i.e. jargon for "RECESSION"?

Before answering this question.....i want you to think that....Due to so much downfall how are the company's able to balance their infrastructure.....as companies are not getting any projects....than how do they manage their such big infrastructure...??

The one aspect is by cutting out people from the company....and the other is..by reducing there OPERATIONAL COST......

This is the most important step a company is takin to fight the recession....

Organization today are pressurising their IT department to give more solutions that how a company can reduce its operational cost....Some of the big solutions which are coming in IT
department mind are Video conferencing,VOIP, and different types of collaborative applications.
The Companys are focusing more on their WAN infrastructure now....as it is not surprising to know that travel and communication form a significant portion of every organization's budget.Hence,seeing to this perspective every CIO is now adding WAN optimisation and management to fight the slowdown.

Seeing another aspect....of the Green World

As now a days when you go to a computer shop what do you think before buying notebook or a PC for yourself that you get the highest configuration in a lesser cost....But what if you don't need so much higher configuration notebook or PC to do the work....Now a Days companys are using atom PC's example saleron....well that sound surprising....But this reduce their power consumption cost....the company's are giving their employees only that much configuration PC's which they require to do the amount of work given to them....Well think Practically....More the configuration of PC more will be the power consumption....now if you consider a processor higer is its frequency...more power it consumes....now in case of 200 PC's present in an organisation....the company can save great amount of power which could reduce its operational cost.

Hence the Best Step the companys are taking to fight the slowdown is to reduce their operational cost

VANET(Vehiclular Adhoc Network)

2009-02-06T22:22:00.000-08:00

What do u say if i say that Vehicles can be made intelligent such that they can guide their drivers in situations like road accidents....traffic...etc.
Well i suppose the answer is yes....this can be possible by providing cars with sensors which will be controlled by telematics box(Box which use GSM networks to provide real time data monitoring, analysis and process control)inside the car.And the box will communicate with the driver by acting as the drivers guide.The concept of VANET first came in 1998 by team of engineers of IBM and DD electronic systems.

Now thinking practically on your own place some important applications on VANET.....

VPN(Virtual Private Network)

2009-02-06T22:10:00.000-08:00

A Network which uses telecommunication infrastructure, such as internet...to provide remote offices or an individual users with secure access to their organization.The main goal of VPN is to provide the organization with less expense cost on their infrastructure...as the organizations which use expensive system of owned lines....will not be used in case of VPN....which reduces the expenditure of organizations.