Symantec Restore Disk for Netbooks

Now in my last post I showed you how to get around installing Windows 7 on your netbook. So now I will write about how to restore it in case something goes wrong.

Suppose you wanna install Windows 7 just for the heck of it but you dont wanna mess / lose the current OS of it and maybe like me ur a Symantec fanboi and you get your disk imaged. How to go about booting the SRD without a optical drive ????

Well here is the guide.. read on….

To create a USB startup disk with SRD follow this steps in a Windows Vista computer:

1. Open a Command Line window (run CMD.EXE) and then execute:

* diskpart
* list disk (to find your USB disk number)
* select disk [number of your USB disk]
* clean
* create partition primary
* select partition 1
* active
* format fs=ntfs
* assign
* exit

2. xcopy [your CD letter with SRD disk]:\*.* /s/e/f [your USB disk letter]:\

After this your USB disk will be bootable and you can use it to restore the image of the OS you had taken before.

Installing Windows 7 on Netbooks

Well my friends told me off when I said that I had a netbook and did not install Windows 7 on it yet… So I set out to install Windows 7 on my Acer Aspire One.

Its an Intel Atom N270 based netbook with 1GB of RAM and 120 GB’s of HDD space. Now the most asked Q; how to install Windows 7 on a netbook when it doesn’t have a DVD-ROM ???

Well I fished a tutorial on how to achieve it using a 4GB pen drive. Follow the instruction to the letter.

diskpart [launches diskpart]
list disk [lists the currently mounted disks, and assigns them a number]
select disk # [selects the USB drive, replace # with your disk's number]
clean [removes any MBR and partition information]
create partition primary [creates primary partition]
select partition 1 [selects the just-created partition]
active [marks the partition as active]
format fs=NTFS [formats the partition as NTFS]
assign [mounts the partition and assigns a drive letter]
exit [terminates diskpart]

After this pop in the Windows 7 DVD and then navigate to the boot folder in the DVD from a command prompt and type the following

bootsect /nt60 # [prepares the boot sector, replace # with your USB drive's drive letter]

*Note: If you are trying this out on Vista you should do it using an Administrator cmd prompt.

So after doing this I started to install Windwos 7. I noted down the time taken by Windows 7 to install on the netbook.

Installing Windows (Copying Windows Files; Expanding Windows Files; Installing Features; Installing Updates)- 8.27
Installing Windows (Completing Installation) – 6.07
Setup is preparing your computer for first use – 1.33
Desktop – 1.55

Total Time = 18.04

So its pretty decent.. So have fun and cherrio..

Samsung P2350

I have done quite some updates on my machine. Will be posting it one by one as I get time. Am starting with the monitor.

Finally I got a beauty…

The monitor dammit not the chick… but hey the chick is pretty cool too

Some updates..

So I havent been around my blog again.
But in between I got quite some stuff…
One of my 500 GB disks conked off twice… and then I got WD Caviar 1TB to replace them.
So now I’m a little balanced on the space front

Rest is all pure normal… just whiling away time at work.

Well updated the theme again….

So till next time… cherrio

G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra

This is another kick ass movies in the making I suppose… Well thats what the trailers shows. Check it out here …..

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Now this is a very much anticipated movie. I didn’t check it out because I was pissed off by the  last installment of X-MEN. But when I saw its trailer I was flabbergasted. Now I’m waiting for it to release now The action is so awesome (atleast from what is in the trailer) that I cant wait till May 1st.

For watching the trailer go here

How alone can you be…

January passed by; and February is sneaking by. Haven’t done much last month. It’s more like I’m standing still while the world is busy running or climbing new heights. Life has become so boring that I skipped office this Saturday…. Let’s see if I can survive the boredom.

Windows 7; The answer to H/W upgrades ??

So Microsoft release the Beta 1 of Windows 7 their upcoming OS after Vista. Its smooth looks like Vista and runs on H/W which gives sluggish performance on XP !!! I have decided if MS keeps up the speed of this OS just as it is now then I’m gonna buy it for each and every machine I own. Till then I’ll test it on my laptop having a 1.66 GHz Duo Procesor and 512 MB RAM on a 945 Chipset eek  !!!

Long time no post!!!

Its been a long time since I posted on my blog. Since then I got a new mobile; an iPod Touch 8GB, a 1TB HDD for backing up my stuff; a Acer Aspire One just for the heck of it; played lots of games; been sick have loads and loads of stuff to do at work. So this is my summary post for all the missed time.

Bentley beauty

Ok so I live in a place where this is not a regular occurance. Actually there is a Audi showroom that has comeup in the city. Since the IT industry booming, Pune has lost the “Pensioner’s Paradise” tag, and has become a regular metro-style city. So the average salary of a Punite has increased. So the number of cars have gone up in the recent times. Now why am I telling you all of this, its because I saw a beauty hidded near the Audi showroom. And me and my friend were travelling in between 2 or our offices the HQ and the branch at which I am located. So it was a to and fro fare. While going to the HQ I (me has a keen eye for cars than chicks) spotted a Bentley, now this is a ultra rare occurance for me because I never am outside much and I also am freaked out by the thought of a travel in the heat of this summer. So when I saw this Bentley perched in the shade of the Audi showroom, I told my couleage to keep my mobile at reach. So off we went, the Audi showroom is hardly 300 mts aways from our HQ. So armed with my mobile, me and my coulleague set off, I drove nimbly and wanted to stop in front of the Bently click and then go, but the watchman from the Audi showroom was approaching us, there is a history in Pune that the high off shops dun allow anyone to click pics of their premises. So we quickly changed plans I yelled “click”, and my friend clicked a pic of the beauty. And to top it there was a grey Land Rover standing next to the Bentley which was a bonus. Now enough of my talk talk and here goed the pic. God I dun regret buying a 5610. Now the well spent money comes to my rescue.

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