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Friends i have seen thousand of laptop cd/dvd rom stops working very soon. then the quesion is how you do intall your os if it was corrupted. follow my tip and install windows7 or vista in very simple way.
a) first insert your usb flash drive or hdd in usb port b) then open commandprompt from accessories with rightclick run as administrator c) you must know what is drive letter of your usb flash drive. d) type DISKPART in command prompt and press enter e) then type LISTDISK in command prompt f) Next type all the below commands one by one. Here I assume that your disk drive no is “Disk 1”.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above step to confirm it.
So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one:
SELECT DISK 1
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take few seconds)
ASSIGN
EXIT
g) Next insert your Windows7/Vista DVD into the optical drive and check the drive letter of the DVD drive. In this guide I will assume that your DVD drive letter is “D” and USB drive letter is “H” (open my computer to know about it).
h) Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the following command now:
D: CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.
CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
i) Type another command given below to update the USB drive with BOOTMGR compatible code.
BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 H: J) Copy your Windows 7/Vista DVD contents to the USB flash drive.
Eject the usb drive and select first boot device usb drive or usb hdd in motherboards bios.
what brand flash drive is this? some of the cruzer brand flash drives are partitioned to 2 drives. you may need to go to the manufacturers website and remove the partition with a 3rd party software. if it IS a cruzer, that software is on the larger of the two drives that show up when you insert the drive.
You probably still need to partition it, before you can even format it. Try the disk manager in Windows.
In the start menu, right-click "My Computer" and in the popup menu, select "Manage". One computer management comes up, select disk management and there you should see the disk. You can then create a partition and format it.
Download the Ubuntu Live ISO (if you dont have it already) and burn it to CD Restart your computer (booting from the Ubuntu Live CD) Insert a 1GB or larger USB flash drive Open a terminal window and type sudo su Now type fdisk -l to list available drives/partitions (note which device is your flash drive Example: /dev/sdb). Throughout this tutorial, replace all instances of x with your flash drive letter. For example, if your flash drive is sdb, replace x with b. Type umount /dev/sdx1 Type fdisk /dev/sdx type p to show the existing partition and d to delete it type p again to show any remaining partitions (if partitions exist, repeat the previous step) type n to make a new partition type p for primary partition type 1 to make this the first partition hit enter to use the default 1st cylinder type +750M to set the partition size type a to make this partition active type 1 to select partition 1 type t to change the partition filesystem type 6 to select the fat16 file system type n to make another new partition type p for primary partition type 2 to make this the second partition hit enter to use the default cylinder hit enter again to use the default last cylinder type w to write the new partition table Type umount /dev/sdx1 to unmount the partition Type mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n usb /dev/sdx1 to format the first partition
"Alternately you can try mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n usb /dev/sdx1 (doesn't always work)" Type umount /dev/sdx2 to ensure the partition is unmounted Type mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sdx2 to format the second partition Remove and Re-insert your flash drive Back at the terminal, type sudo apt-get install syslinux mtools Type syslinux -sf /dev/sdx1 Restart your computer, remove the CD and boot back into Windows
Using Windows to prepare and move the files to the USB Stick: Create a folder named USB on your computer Download UBconvert.zip using this link - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/downloads/UBconvert.zip Now, extract the files to the USB folder Move the Ubuntu ISO downloaded earlier to the USB folder Click fixu.bat from the USB folder (follow on screen instructions) Move all files from the ubuntu directory to your memory stick Reboot your computer and set your system BIOS to boot from USB-HDD or USB-ZIP. Also set the "Hard Disk Boot Priority" if necessary.
You should now be booting into Ubuntu Linux from your USB drive!
i)Try to put Pen Drive or USB in usb port and insert an Windows XP CD and try restarting start and i think u the know procedure of formating Window XP or reload OS(let me say that i'm not formating or reloading OS on ur system, there is small procedure over there after that u can use system normally....)
ii) when u reach a blue screen that show all the partitions of ur system (like C: D: E: ....), observe it will also show ur usb partition(mention memory....) separately,,, try to use this option :
Delete Partition by pressing D(usb partition being highlighted...) and then follow instruction .....and now u will see that there is no partition letter(such as D, E , F) assinged to ur usb
Now Create an partition on that by pressing C ... this will create an partition and it will retain or give name or lettering to it(such as D, E, F)
after this donot continue format the system, just exit from by pressing ESC button .... and ur system will start normally, ...observer usb now u will be able format.... from now..
i) Try to put Pen Drive or USB in usb port and insert an Windows XP CD and try restarting start and i think u the know procedure of formating Window XP or reload OS(let me say that i'm not formating or reloading OS on ur system, there is small procedure over there after that u can use system normally....)
ii) when u reach a blue screen that show all the partitions of ur system (like C: D: E: ....), observe it will also show ur usb partition(mention memory....) separately,,, try to use this option :
Delete Partition by pressing D(usb partition being highlighted...) and then follow instruction .....and now u will see that there is no partition letter(such as D, E , F) assinged to ur usb
Now Create an partition on that by pressing C ... this will create an partition and it will retain or give name or lettering to it(such as D, E, F)
after this donot continue format the system, just exit from by pressing ESC button .... and ur system will start normally, ...observer usb now u will be able format.... from now..
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