Make your Own LIVEBOOT CD of Windows XPâ€¦

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:43:58 +0000

This Topic seems to be a bit crazyâ€¦.but you can do it nowâ€¦.I have been searching a new technique to boot operation system in my machineâ€¦.on which i donâ€™t have to install operating systemâ€¦it directly run from the CD/DVD. Why do i need such kind of things?

If your operating system fails for some reason, you will still be able to access your hard drives and salvage the data.

If your operating system gets hit by a nasty infection, you will be able to remove it easily.

If you suspect a hidden rootkit, there’s no better method to inspect your drives.

If you want to browse the Internet safely, this is one good way of doing it.I think these answer make you satisfy why you need the liveboot CD or DVDâ€¦..Here I am introducing you guys a new application PE Builder with help of which you can make your own liveboot CD/DVD.Here we startâ€¦

First, download and install the PE Builder.

I want to bring your attention to a subfolder that is automatically created when you install the PE Builder:

\..\pebuilder folder\plugin

Replace \..\pebuilder folder\ with your installation path. Remember the plugin folder. Now, let’s move on.

Now, start the program. The interface looks like this:

You should specify the source of Windows installation files (most likely your Windows CD), custom folders and files that you might like to include, the location of the created output, and the location and the name of the .iso image. So far so good.

But we are also very much interested in Plugins.

Clicking Plugins will open a new sub-menu:

Click â€˜addâ€™ and browse to the location where you stored the Windows XPE plug-in to add it. Since we are using the XPE plug-in you can safely disable the Nu2shell, PENETCFG and A43 plugins since these offer functionality that is already included with the XPE plug-in.as shown in picture you can disable Nu2shell but you have to enable Nu2menu.

Click â€˜closeâ€™. You can now directly burn a disc or save an ISO file for testing which you can burn later. Click â€˜buildâ€™ and PE builder will get to work.

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If the build process completes without any errors, you have made yourself a Live CD.

Mine completed in just under 2 minutes without any errors and amounted to 270 MB with Windows XPE plug-in and 154 MB without it. Here are the screen shots from my LiveCD which I tested in my Virtual machine.

First I made my machine boot from CDâ€¦.then the black screen came as it comes while installing Windows XPâ€¦but later on the system started to loadâ€¦.and these are the screenshots..

I have just succeeded this windows XP and now soon will be blogging about how to make live cd of windows Vista and Windows 7â€¦..I think it will be more interesting for us to make it in Windows 7,and more complicated.

How to Remove Linux Boot Loader From Startup After Deleting Linux Partition on a Dual-Boot System?

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:58:51 +0000

Some month ago I had suffered a problem on my fren PC. He wanted to shift from Linux to windows and I was getting problem with its Boot Loader.After Studying a lot I got the solution, here I am sharing my solution to you guys. Hope it works for you guys also.

If you have a dual-boot system with Linux and Windows, then you probably know that when you start your system first Linux boot loader appears showing Linux as well as Windows boot entries and if you select Windows from the list, it starts Windows.

Suppose a situation when you want to remove Linux from your system and want to use only Windows, then how will you do it?

Many times people delete the partitions having Linux installed from “Disk Manager” but it doesn’t remove Linux completely. The Linux boot loader still appears at startup but since you deleted Linux partitions, the boot loader gets corrupted and your system becomes unusable.

So if you are also facing this problem or you faced this problem in past and could not get a working solution, then read this tutorial and you can follow it if you find yourself in a similar situation.

This tutorial will help you in completely removing Linux from a dual-boot system:

1. First you’ll need to boot using Windows setup CD. You can use Windows 98 Setup CD or Windows 2000, XP, 2003Â CD or Windows Vista, Server 2008 DVD.

A. Using Windows 98 CD:

Boot into Command Prompt and provide following command:

fdisk /MBR

Now exit from command prompt by typing Exit and press Enter.

B. Using Windows 2000, XP, 2003 CD:

Enter into “Recovery Console” by pressing “R“, select your Windows installation and enter administrator password. Now provide following command:

fixmbr

Press “Y” to confirm and type Exit to exit from recovery console.

C. Using Windows Vista, Server 2008 DVD:

Boot using setup DVD and click on “Repair Computer” link, then click on “Command Prompt”. Now navigate to your DVD drive using CD command and at last provide following command:

bootsect /nt60 SYS /mbr

Exit from Command prompt and restart your system.

Thanks to Ramesh Kumar (Fellow MVP) to provide this trick.

2. The above commands will remove the Linux boot loader from startup and you’ll be able to directly boot into Windows.

3. If you have not deleted Linux partitions, then you can delete them using “Disk Manager” tool in Windows.

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Make your Own LIVEBOOT CD of Windows XPâ€¦

How to Remove Linux Boot Loader From Startup After Deleting Linux Partition on a Dual-Boot System?