Tuesday, February 19, 2013

How To Make A Bootable USB

First  find yourself a large enough and fast enough USB stick to use as your boot able media.
  1. Open Run and then type DISK PART, to run disk part
  2. Type in LIST DISK to list off all disks attached to your system. Make note of your disk# representing your USB stick
  3. Type SELECT DISK # where # represents YOUR USB STICK
  4. Type CLEAN to erase everything / every partition on the disk. Remember you validated what disk to clean in step 2, right?
  5. Type CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY to make your new primary partition
  6. Type ACTIVE to mark partition as active
  7. Type FORMAT FS=NTFS QUICK  to perform a quick format
  8. Type EXIT to close diskpart – unless you want to make more bootable USB disks
Next up – extract the source files (all files) of your  ISO file to the root of the USB stick. You can use whatever tool you prefer – I used to use WINRAR to open and expand them, or  use any image drive software to use MOUNT image, and copy all file to USB Stick.
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)

Reset Windows 7/8 or Vista Password(all account are blocked)

If you forgot the admin password and have no other account with administrator rights. This is explain a simple method to reset the Windows password for,Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista, Windows XP. All you need is a copy of the Windows installation disk or usb and one simple command line trick.
Steps:
 Boot off the Windows disk and select the “Repair your computer” option from the lower left-hand corner.


Follow through until you get to the option to open the Command Prompt, which you’ll want to select.

 First you’ll want to type in the following command to backup the original sticky keys file:

 copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\

Then you’ll copy the command prompt executable (cmd.exe) over top of the sticky keys executable:
copy c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe


Now you can reboot the PC.

Then Resetting the Password,
Once you get to the login screen, hit the Shift key 5 times, and you’ll see an administrator mode command prompt.
Now to reset the password—just type the following command, replacing the username and password with the combination you want:
net user Home 123456
Home is the username of the computer and 123456 is the password. Replace both as you wish.
That’s all there is to it. Now you can login.
Of course, you’ll probably want to put the original sethc.exe file back, which you can do by rebooting into the installation CD, opening the command prompt, and copying the c:\sethc.exe file back to c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe.