Rufus: The Fastest Tool To Create Bootable USB Drive

Windows users have a lot of good utilities to create a bootable USB using an ISO file and then install Windows from a USB flash drive. Windows 7 DVD/USB Tool, UNetBootin, WinToFlash, and Universal USB installer are the some popular utilities available for the job.

While most of the utilities mentioned above do their job very well, the only catch is that all these tools take considerable amount of time to transfer the ISO onto the USB.

Users who don’t want to use the command prompt method for creating bootable USB media should check out Rufus utility. Rufus is a small utility for Windows and helps you create bootable USB drives. The best thing about this tool is that it’s faster than other tools. According to the developer of the tool, it’s twice as fast as the official Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool, Universal USB installer and UNetBootin tools.

Apart from Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Vista, Windows and Windows 8, this software also supports Arch Linux, Hiren’s Boot CD, Parted Magic, NT Password Registry Editor, Knoppix, Kubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS, Fedora and many other Linux distributions.

Download, run the utility, select your USB drive and browse to the ISO file to begin transferring ISO file contents onto the USB drive. You might also like to know how toinstall Windows 7 on USB drive and repair Windows 7 from USB flash drive.

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Download Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool From Microsoft

We have already covered how to install Windows 7 from a USB flash drive.

With the launch of Windows 7, Microsoft has released a small utility that allows you install Windows 7 from a USB flash drive. Although this is just another tool, many of you might like to test it.

The Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool allows you to create a copy of your Windows 7 ISO file on a USB flash drive or a DVD. To create a bootable DVD or USB flash drive, download the ISO file and then run the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool. Once this is done, you can install Windows 7 directly from the USB flash drive or DVD.

System Requirements:

      # Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)

      # Pentium 233-megahertz (MHz) processor or faster (300 MHz is recommended)

      # 50MB of free space on your hard drive

      # DVD-R drive or 4GB removable USB flash drive

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How To Make Bootable USB

Having a bootable USB is very essential, especially if you are a Netbook user. Using bootable USB to install an operating system (OS) not only makes the installation faster, but also saves a DVD.

Creating or using an USB drive to install Windows operating systems is very easy if you follow the below mentioned steps.

If you are planning to use bootable USB to install Windows 7 or Vista please refer our guides:

Install Windows 7/Vista using bootable USB guide

Coming back to bootable USB guide, here we assume that you are using either Vista or Windows 7 to create a bootable USB.

1. Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable) stick to the system and backup all the data from the USB as we are going to format the USB to make it as bootable.

2. Open elevated Command Prompt. To do this, type in CMD in Start menu search field and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, navigate to Start > All programs >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.

3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:

DISKPART and hit enter.

LIST DISK and hit enter.

Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1.

4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter. As these commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do.

SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)

CLEAN

CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

SELECT PARTITION 1

ACTIVE

FORMAT FS=NTFS

(Format process may take few seconds)

ASSIGN

EXIT

Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it.

5. Insert your Windows DVD in the optical drive and note down the drive letter of the optical drive and USB media. Here I use “D” as my optical (DVD) drive letter and “H” as my USB drive letter.

6. Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands:

D:CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.

BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H:

(Where “H” is your USB drive letter)

7. Copy Windows DVD contents to USB.

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).

Note that this bootable USB guide will not work if you are trying to make a bootable USB on XP computer.

How to Disable USB port on Windows Xp machine

USB keys are now a days  not just a popular way to sneak data out from companies, unhappy employees may use USB ports for delivering trojans or spyware into the company networks.

Now some smart admins disable usb drive by changing the BIOS settings and then lock the BIOS using passwords. Some not so-smart admins fix tapes over the USB ports to prevent employees from inserting any USB device into their computer.

When you do this, the USB storage device does not work when the user connects the device to the computer.

However, both these approaches can prove to be counter-productive as your staff can no longer use USB keyboards, wireless mouse, digital cameras, camcorders, scanners, printers or even USB microphones to their computers.

So a more reasonable option for sysadmins is to disable write access to USB port so that data files cannot be written to the mass storage device. The USB thumb drive will be read-only.

Open the Windows Registry and open the following key
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\ Control\StorageDevicePolicies

Now add a new DWORD called WriteProtect and put the value as 0 to disable write privileges to the USB port. To reverse the step, either delete the WriteProtect REG_DWORD or toggle the value to 1 which will enable the port.

Remember that the above trick works only with Windows XP SP2.

How to Disable USB ports in window xp

1. Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor

In the details pane, double-click Start.

In the Value data box, type 4, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.

1. Exit Registry Editor.

How to re-enable a disable ports in Windows

1. Click Start, and then click Run. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor

In the details pane, double-click Start.

In the Value data box, type 3, click Hexadecimal (if it is not already selected), and then click OK.

1. Exit Registry Editor

How to Lock folder on windows using recycle bin

Hello friends, here i am going to share tip which will help you to lock folder for  protecting  your important data as well as data that required to lock for preventing access. there are lots of utilities available that will help you to achieve this, but all are some how trial version or limited version.

So, if you want to lock folder on your pc please follow below steps. note that these  changes are under windows registry so, avoid to  implement if you are not well enough technically known person 

here are the way you can lock any folder using recycle bin :

• open Run in your computer or press (ctrl +R) and type ‘regedit‘ command
• You can list of  keys  and relates values.navigate through list until you find CLSID no of recycle bin in registry editor

For example:

CLSID no of recycle bin  is >>  {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

• Now its time to lock folder using recycle bin so, lets say you want to lock folder named ‘Folder1′

so inside notepad editor type  following text like

ren folder1 recycle.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

and save that files as lock.bat

• To unlock related Lock folder , you can create another batch file which will unlock folder.Type below line in another notepad file and  save that as ‘unlock.bat’

ren recycle.{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

So, when ever you want to lock  folder execute created lock.bat and reverse execute unlock.bat for locking folder.

Make Ubuntu Linux looks like Windows 7

Ubuntu,one of the best alternative and big competitor of Windows due to it’s Amazing user-friendly interface, simple and very quick installation, dual-boot with Windows 7 and excellent program support. In the Linux sector, Ubuntu is one of the top Linux Operating systems globally.

Many users often miss Windows Looks in Ubuntu. Now its possible.

With the help of W7 Theme you can make your Ubuntu Linux looks like Windows 7. W7 Theme is a free script that skins your Linux desktop with a familiar Windows 7 look and feel.

It can change your Linux GUI to a more familiar Windows interface. Linux has a highly configurable GUI, but if you long for the more well-known Windows interface, this script will do a remarkably good job of making Ubuntu look like Windows 7.

You can download either a GNOME and KDE version, as well as one of a few Firefox themes to make your browser look more Windows-y too.

Ubuntu Linux users can now get a full Windows 7 skin for Linux to give that OS a better glass look and, to all intents and purposes, make it look almost exactly like Windows 7.

It works in any version of Linux, but works best with Ubuntu for which it was designed. The skin, which can be downloaded here does prove to be a very convincing alternative to Windows 7, albeit without the aero glass effects, and could be used as an excellent way to introduce some users to the free Linux OS.

Full instructions on how to setup and install the skin are available at the download site and there are versions for either the GNOME or KDE desktops.

This skin Works best with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

HOW TO RECOVER YOUR LOST OR FORMATTED DATA OR PARTITION

Stellar Phoenix Partition Recovery - Professional

Partition Recovery Software for Windows to recover your Lost, Formatted & Deleted partitions.

• Recover complete data from a formatted partition
• Raw recovery from hard drives with severe curruption
• Start up DVD to recover data from unbootable systems
• Cloning & Imaging of media with bad sectors
• Data recovery from all inaccessible optical storage media

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This partition recovery software is immensely useful for all Windows users to get back their precious data lost due to deletion, formatting or any similar reasons. Below are some of the prime features of the software:

Deleted Partition Recovery

Because of severe virus infection, file system corruption or such similar unresolved problems, sometimes, partitions need to be deleted. In such situations, you can use this software to undelete all your lost data from any FAT, NTFS or exFAT file system based deleted Windows partition.

Recovery from Formatted Partition

Sometimes, you format a partition and later realize that there was certain important data in that. Even at times, due to severe corruption or such similar issues, you are forced to format a drive/partition. In any such case, using Stellar Partition Recovery, you can retrieve all your data lost due to formatting of the partitions.

Formatted File/Folder Recovery

Recover your important files and folders, which you have lost due to the complete formatting of the partitions or the logical volumes

Advanced Photo Recovery Option

The software has an advanced 'photo recovery' feature dedicated to recover your lost, formatted, or deleted photos from all types of storage media, including hard drives, USB drives, and memory cards. It scans your entire drive thoroughly and lists recoverable files based on their file types, such as JPG, BMP, GIF, and PNG. You can also add new file types to the supported list of file types for photo recovery.

Optical Media Recovery

This Windows data recovery software can rescue your lost files from corrupt or damaged optical media, including CD/DVD, CD ROM, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-RW, and Blu-ray discs. The software supports all types of file systems used on CDs/DVDs, such as ISO 9660, Joliet, ISO 9660:1999, UDF, UDF Packet Writing, IFO/VOB Video, HFS, and Rock Ridge file systems.

Raw Recovery

With this option of the software, you can retrieve data of any specific file type from your hard drive, any individual volume, or USB drive by selecting the file types you want to recover for immediate access of your most important files. Apart from a long list of given file types, you can also add, remove, edit any file type, save the selection and start the scanning process

Audio/Video Recovery

Recover all your lost songs, videos, movies, animated files or any other multimedia files, even though they are completely deleted from Windows based hard drives, USB flash drives, multimedia cards etc.

Preview Before Recovery

The software lists all the recoverable files and folders in a tree view. Preview the selected file and cross check whether you are recovering the needed files, prior to actual recovery.

Impressive View Options of Scanned Files

The software has a knack of sorting the scanned list of items in three different ways, i.e. 'Classical Tree', 'File Type List', and 'Filtered Tree'. The 'Classical Tree' lists files with their original hierarchy in the form of Windows directory structure, the 'File Type List' tab displays files based on the file types, and the 'Filtered Tree' option allows you to specify a file mask to narrow down the scan results.

Deleted Database Recovery

Databases like Oracle, SQL Server, MS Access etc. store huge volumes of important data, hence, accidental deletion of the database or any of its objects can be a great loss. Stellar Partition Recovery can efficiently recover deleted/lost databases as well as its objects, with the original structure absolutely intact.

Search Lost Volumes

The software provides an option to search for completely lost/deleted volumes in the hard disk. You can use this option to list all the previously existed volumes in the hard drive. Thereafter you can perform Quick Recovery, Deleted File Recovery or Formatted/Lost File & Folder Recovery to easily recover all the data from the selected volume.

Auto Update Wizard

With the ‘Auto Update’ Wizard, the software prompts you to upgrade the present version of the software by automatically checking for any available minor or major update. All the minor updates are freely available to the users.

Deleted File Recovery

The software efficiently recovers deleted files, such as MS Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, BKF, ZIP files, etc.; from the hard drive volumes. When you proceed for 'Deleted File Recovery', you will find two scanning methods namely; Quick Scan and Deep Scan. 'Quick Scan' is faster but use 'Deep Scan' to thoroughly search each of the deleted files from the selected volume.

Signature Based Recovery

Every file type has a particular signature that uniquely identifies it. This software recognizes the signatures of almost all file types. Thus, by using this unique feature, you can scan and recover all the files of a specified file signature, without scanning each file of the entire disk/volume one by one.

Applying Compression to Recovered Files

The software gives you an option to compress recovered files before saving them to your desired location so that you can save valuable space in the hard disk. Using this feature, you can choose to compress each file individually or save all the recovered files to a single compressed '.zip' folder.

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Start setup, Enter any Name, Organization and Serial you want. When installation finish, run the program, Press 'Register' button and enter:

s/n: 07691-77-00000

s/n: NAVM-JP3Q-AUIZ-GRYQ

s/n: NAVG-P2QR-QXIN-TUU2

s/n: NAVG-JUEC-C2RG-LZS2

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