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Enable Booting Of Hiren’s CD From USB Drive Flash Drive
Jul 5th
Booting Hiren’s CD From USB Drive Flash Drive
We can boot Hiren’s “All IN One CD” from our USB Drive. The steps are follows,
- Insert the USB Flash drive into the system.
- Backup all the contents from the drive. We need to format the drive.
- Format the drive with FAT 32 files system.
- Download “Grub4dos.zip” from the link.
- Extract the Grub4dos download and double click on “grubinst_gui.exe”.
Select the Flash drive and Whole disk (MBR) option. Press Install button.
- We need to copy the file contents (menu.lst, grldr, docs) from Grub4dos extract folder location to removal flash drive.
- Download Hiren’s ISO file from the link and extract all the contents to removal disk. We need to use decompression software like WinRaR to extract all the contents of the ISO to the removal flash drive.
- Reboot and Enable USB booting in BIOS.
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Melbin Mathew
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How to Enable USB Booting From Removable Disk/Pen Drive for Installing Windows 7 Operating System
Jul 4th
How to Enable USB Booting From Removable Disks/Pen Drives for Installing Windows 7 Operating System
It is a feasible way to use USB drives for the installation of Windows Operating system rather than using CD/DVD drives. USB installation will help us to save time and cost.
This method also helps user systems having CD/DVD hardware issue.
Steps To Create USB Bootable
1. Insert USB drive in the System and backup all the data from the disk. We need to format the disk to make the drive bootable.
2. Open command (CMD) prompt in administrator mode.
Go to -> Windows Start menu -> All Programs -> Accessories -> right click on command prompt and select Run as Administrator.
3. If prompted security warning, Click Yes to continue.
4. Enter the following commands in CMD,
- DISKPART hit enter.
- LIST DISK hit enter.
The “LIST DISK’ command displays all the disk volumes connected to the system. Choose the correct disk number. Here my USB connection is listed as DISK 1 (4GB).
Be sure to select the correct disk volume number.
5. Enter the following commands and hit enter.
- SELECT DISK 1 (Replace the disk number according to the USB connection)
- CLEAN
- CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
- SELECT PARTITION 1
- ACTIVE
- FORMAT FS=NTFS
- ASSIGN
- EXIT
Don’t close the CMD prompt, we need to execute one more command.
6. Insert Windows DVD in DVD drive and note the drive letter. Copy all the contents to the removal disk.
If you are using Windows ISO file, extract the contents to the Removal disk using extractor application.
Extract the ISO file to the Removal disk. (Use WinRAR like decompression application)
7. Skip this step for Windows7 users.
Note the DVD and USB removal disk drive letters.
Go back to Command prompt and execute the following commands.
D: (Replace D: with DVD drive letter)
CD BOOT
BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 G:
(Replace G: with USB Removal disk drive letter)
If the command window is not running as Administrator (Windows Start menu-> All Programs-> Accessories-> right click on command prompt and select Run as Administrator), you will get the “BOOTMGR compatible error”.
8. Reboot the system and enter into system BIOS setup and enable USB booting. Change the boot order and enable USB boot to first bootable option. Restart the system.
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Melbin Mathew
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Backup and Restore Of Windows 7 Operating System using Windows System Image
Jun 30th
Backup and Restore Of Windows 7 Operating System using Windows System Image
Backup and Restore function from Windows Control Panel helps us to backup the entire operating system and applications. The backup is stored as System Image.
At any point of time we are able to revert our Operating System to a previous state. If our system faces any serious errors or hard disk failures, System Image restoration has a good role to restore our system with limited time.
**Note:
Restoring from the System Image will overwrite all the present Windows Files and Folders.
Backup Process
- Go to Control Panel and Select Backup and Restore.
- It is highly recommended to “Create a system repair disk” before proceeding with this task. Insert a blank CD/DVD disk and Select the proper CD/DVD drive from the drop down. Once we have selected the drive Click “Create Disk” button.
- Select “Create a System Image”
- Select the storage location where we need to backup this newly created System Image.
**Note:
Choosing external backup media/location is far better to avoid any kind of data loss.
- Confirm your backup settings and Click “Start Backup” Button
**Note:
If we are selecting the same storage location/path, Any existing system images for this machine might overwrite.
- System Image creation successfully completed.
Restore Process
- Go to Control Panel -> Backup and Restore and “Select Recover System Settings or Your Computer”
- Select “Advance Recovery Methods”
- Select “Use a System Image”
- Select Backup Files and Folder
- Once finished with backup process, Click “Restart Button”.
**Note:
The system will starts rebooting and boots to Recovery Menu. We need to select the proper System Image from the console.
Keep the system recovery disk in our hand, sometimes we need his help.
The Restoration process will take time, which depends on the backup size and system configuration.
Cheers!
Melbin Mathew
Talk2Melbin
How To Install VMTool In Linux Virtual Machine Hosted In A ESX VMware Server
Jun 22nd
How To Install VMTool In Linux Virtual Machine Hosted In A ESX VMware Server
It is very important that you install VMware Tools in the guest operating system.
With the VMware Tools SVGA driver installed, Workstation supports significantly faster graphics performance.
The VMware Tools package provides support required for shared folders and for drag and drop operations.
Other tools in the package support synchronization of time in the guest operating system with time on the host, automatic grabbing and releasing of the mouse cursor, copying and pasting between guest and host, and improved mouse performance in some guest operating systems.
The installers for VMware Tools for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and NetWare guest operating systems are built into VMware Workstation as ISO image files. (An ISO image file looks like a CD-ROM to your guest operating system and even appears as a CD-ROM in Windows Explorer. You do not use an actual CD-ROM to install VMware Tools, nor do you need to download the CD-ROM image or burn a physical CD-ROM of this image file.)
When you choose VM > Install VMware Tools from the VMware Workstation menu, VMware Workstation temporarily connects the virtual machine’s first virtual CD-ROM drive to the ISO image file that contains the VMware Tools installer for your guest operating system and you are ready to begin the installation process.
Steps for Installing VMTool in Linux virtual machine.
- Login Esxi server and select the virtual machine.
- Open the Console windows and enter the root credential.
- Shutdown the Linux virtual machine.
- Backup of the virtual machine using snapshot manager.
- Label the snapshot.
- Select the virtual machines right clicks and choose Edit Settings.
- Select CD/DVD drive.
- Enable Host Device and select /dev/scd0 (Choose accordingly).
- Go to Device status -> check Connected and Connect at power On.
- Power On the virtual machine.
- Go to inventory -> Guest -> Install/Upgrade VMware Tools
- Click Install/Upgrade VMware Tools.
- Go to Esxi and Open Operating console.
- Enter the root credentials.
- Right click desktop and select Terminal console.
- Create Mount Point directory using the command “mkdir /mnt/cdrom”
- Mount CDRom using the command, “mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom”.
- Type “cd /mnt/cdrom” to change directory and type list command “ls”.
- We can see the VMwareTool RPM package with .rpm extension.
- Choose the command for the upgrade/fresh installation,
- rpm –qa | grep VM — the command display whether there were any previously installed VMTool.
For up gradation of the Existing VMTool
- rpm –Uvh VMToo…..rpm — this command helps to upgrade the VMTool installation.
For fresh installation of VMTool
- rpm – ivh VMTool…rpm – this command execute a fresh installation of VMTool.
21. After the installation of VMTool we need to configure the VMTool with the following command,
“ /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl “
22. Choose the appropriate screen resolution.
23. Everything set; we can view the VMTOOL summary status as OK.
24. Unmount CDRom using the command, “umount /dev/cdrom”
25. Reboot the operating system.
26. Everything went normal, remove the backup snapshot.
Reference : Link
Cheers!
Melbin Mathew
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Windows WhoIS and WhosIP Command Line Search, Domain Search and IP Search From Windows Command Prompt
Jun 21st
Windows WhoIS and WhosIP Command Line Search, Domain Search and IP Search From Windows Command Prompt
System Administrator day to day activities includes renewal of domains, buying of new domain and more over checking and validating of the existing purchased domains. If any one loss their favorite domain or the organization loss their domain .. What will happens!!
It is necessary for us to check the validity and renew the domains before its expiration date. There are so many tools available to search “Whois” and find out the domain status.
“Whois” domain search have major role in domain industry as well as support peoples. If a customer, reports an email problem etc. to support, the support person first checks the validity and expire date of the customer domain. This is done with the help of “Whois” search.
“Whois” command is available with Linux terminals, but how can we search “whois” from Windows?
Step To Configure Whois Domain Name Search In Windows
- Download WhoisCL software from the link.
- Extract the downloaded file (Requires Uncompressing software).
- Copy the whoiscl.exe and Paste it inside operating system32 directory “C:\WINDOWS\system32”.
- Open Command Prompt, Go to Windows Start -> Run -> Type cmd
- Run the command in the Command window.
WhoisCL [-r] Domain Examples: WhoisCL microsoft.com WhoisCL -r google.com WhoisCL w3c.org
This will give us the domain details.
Step To Configure Whois IP Search In Windows
- Download WhosIP software from the link.
- Extract the downloaded file (Requires Uncompressing software).
- Copy the whosip.exe and Paste it inside operating system32 directory “C:\WINDOWS\system32”.
- Open Command Prompt, Go to Windows Start -> Run -> Type cmd
- Run the command in the Command window.
WhosIP [-r] host-name Examples: WhosIP -r www.yahoo.com WhosIP www.google.com WhosIP 216.239.59.147
This will give us the IP details.
Cheers!
Melbin Mathew
Talk2Melbin