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Sunday, October 25, 2009

DBAF Comic by Toyble


DBAF, where the "AF" stands for "After Future" or "Another Future", is the new Dragonball Series after the DBGT. It is not an official series of Dragonball,as admitted by Akira Toriyama, the creator of DB_Z_GT. But is a Fanfic Art, created by the fans of DB_Z_GT who were not willing to accept the end of Dragonball Series.

There are many versions of DBAF floating around the web, but one of the manga fan named TOYBLE has done a job that is truly appreciable. He publishes the Comic pages on his blog http://blog.livedoor.jp/toyble/ (Less frequently though). The characters drawn by him are just the same as found in DB_Z_GT. The comic is simply awesome.
Have a look. Vegeta at Super Saiyan level 4 being attacked by XICOR (a Super Saiyan 5).



I, being a "big" fan too, thereby post here the latest pages from the comic.
Download the zipped volumes from the links below :-

  » Toyble_DBAF_Volume_01 (30.2 MB)
  » Toyble_DBAF_Volume_02 (30.7 MB)
  » Toyble_DBAF_Volume_03 (19.3 MB)
  » Toyble_DBAF_Volume_04 (14.9 MB)

Some how, Toyble has not been able to continue the work and has paused publishing new images. The story is yet to end :(  But for the time being, to have an ending to the story in some sense, he has released an extra volume.

  » Toyble_DBAF_Volume_04_Extra (5.68 MB)


Here are some extra pix, to be added later on. The story would finally converge to the point where all the saiyans alive, including Broli !!, don't stand a chance and GOKU finally reveals his next level, HALF SAIYAN HALF GOD !!!





LEVEL 5!!!!



Friday, October 16, 2009

HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS VISTA/7 USING PEN DRIVE

I had earlier posted on how to Install Windows XP using a Pen Drive.
This post would help you Installing Windows Vista/7 using Pen Drive.

The need is same as earlier. A crashed system requires fresh windows installation and unfortunately CD-DVD Drive is also sailing in the same boat, thus use a Pen Drive.

Although XP installation takes longer time than CD/DVD,Windows Vista/7 installaion on the other hand is faster than DVD disc.This is because XP installtion environment does not have latest USB 2.0 drivers, but Vista/7 does.


REQUIREMENTS :
  • USB-Boot enabled BIOS.
  • A Pen Drive (Atleast 4GB).
  • Windows Vista/7 Installation Files (As DVD Image File or RAR/ZIP Compressed File)
  • MBRwiz2.0 (Download).
  • UltraISO,a CD-ROM drive emulator (Download). 
NOTE : The Vista/7 installation files can be obtained by downloading a DVD-image file from internet. Alternatively there are rar or zip files available on internet which have the installation files in compressed form. In latter case the "UltraISO" software is not required.


1) SETTING UP BIOS

Before anything is done,check if your BIOS allows USB-BOOTING.

Refer to my post "Setting Up BIOS for Booting from Pen Drive or External HDD" to enable booting from Pen Drive.


2) FORMATTING PEN DRIVE

The Pen Drive should be formatted in NTFS to install Windows Vista/7.
If you are working on Vista/7 then simply format the Pen Drive in NTFS file system.

But if you are working on XP then you don't find the NTFS option while formatting a Pen Drive.
Follow these steps :
  • Right click My Computer icon on desktop (it is also found in start menu).
  • In the Tools tab,click Device Manager.
  • A number of system components are listed here.Click on Disk Drives.
  • Right click your Pen Drive in the Sub Menu of Disk Drives and choose properties.
  • In the window that pops up,go to the Policies Tab.
  • Under this check the option "Optimize for performance".

Now if you go for formatting the Pen Drive then NTFS option will be present.

3)) PREPARING BOOTABLE PEN DRIVE

The whole thing is just making Pen Drive bootable.Rest all installation is exactly same as with DVD disc.
Before making Pen Drive Bootable,it must be made an Active Partition.After that it can be made bootable.

# SETTING PEN DRIVE AS ACTIVE PARTITION

   If You Are Working On XP


Download the file MBRwiz2.0 and extract to a folder (i extract to the directory d:/temp).

1. Open command prompt(cmd).

2. Use command 'cd' to go to the directory where you extracted MBRwiz2.0 (as shown below,Click the image for zoomed view).Then type the following command "mbrwiz /list" (all commands must be typed without the quotes) as shown in red box and press ENTER.


3. Once you do so,it will dislpay all the storage devices connected to the system and their respective partitions,here "disk 1" is the Pen Drive (if no other pen drive/usb Hdds are connected).By default the active parameter is set to "no" for Disk 1(shown in red box below).Now type the command "mbrwiz /disk=1 /active=1" and press ENTER.

Note : the command should be typed as it is,be careful with spaces too.




4. Now it will ask for confirmation.Type 'y'.Then the screen should look as below


5. Now the Pen Drive is an active partition and can be made bootable.

Also in step 3 if you type command "mbrwiz /disk=1 /active=0" then the pen drive will become inactive partition as it was earlier.



   If You Are Working On Vista/7 
  • Plug in the Pen Drive.
  • Go to Start Menu and type "cmd".The cmd icon appears in list.
  • Right Click the cmd icon and choose "Run as administrator",click "yes" on the next UAC window (User Account Control).
  • Type "diskpart" and press ENTER.
  • Type "list disk" and press ENTER.This will  list down all storage disks connected to the system,even your HDD.Note the Disk No. for your Pen Drive (usually it is Disk 1 if no other pen drives and external hdd's are connected).
  • Type "select disk x" and press ENTER,where "x" is your disk no. of your pen drive.This will select your Pen Drive.The screen should look as below till this step.

  • Type "list partition" and press ENTER.This will list down the partitions on your pen drive (usually there is only one partition with no. "1").
  • Type "select partition 1" and press ENTER.This will select the only partition on your Pen Drive.
  • Now type "active" and press ENTER.This makes the pen drive active partition.To make it inactive simply type "inactive" instead of "active".The screen now should be as below.



  • Exit cmd

Note : The Pen Drive is not bootable now,it is an Active Partition.Only an Active Partition can be made bootable.

Now simply extract the Windows Vista/7 installation files to a folder named "win" on desktop if you have the rar/zip file of Windows Vista/7 DVD.

But if you have a DVD Image file of the Windows Vista/7 DVD,then you need a Virtual CD-DVD drive Emulator.Download and Install UltraISO and mount  the image file on virtual drive and then copy the files to folder "win" on desktop.

A small tutorial to work with UltraISO :

  • After installing,go to My Computer.
  • There you will find an extra virtual CD-ROM drive.Right click this drive.
  • In the subsequent selection menu there will be an option "UltraISO".Choose it.
  • Another sub menu will pop out.Choose the option "Mount" here.
  • A window will appear where you can browse your cd-image file.
  • Browse it and click OK.Your CD-IMAGE FILE is now mounted on to the drive.
  • Open the drive and copy all files to "win" folder on desktop.

# MAKING PEN DRIVE BOOTABLE

FOR VISTA/7 -
  • Open cmd by "run as administrator" option.By default the current directory is "c:/windows/system32".We have to change this directory to desktop.
  • First type "cd\" and press ENTER.This will take you to root directory,i.e,C:
  • Now type "cd users/xxxx/desktop" and press ENTER.Here "xxxx" is your User Name with which you logged into Windows.
  • Type "cd win/boot" and press ENTER.
  • Then type "bootsect /nt60 x:" and press ENTER.Here "x" is the drive letter for your Pen Drive.Once you hit ENTER the screen should look as below
  • Exit cmd.
 FOR XP -
  • Open cmd.
  • Type "cd desktop/win/boot" and press ENTER.
  • Then type "bootsect /nt60 x:" and press ENTER.Here "x" is the drive letter for your Pen Drive.The results should be same as above.
  • Exit cmd.

NOW JUST COPY ALL THE CONTENTS OF "WIN" FOLDER TO YOUR PEN DRIVE.
IT IS FINALLY READY TO INSTALL WINDOWS VISTA OR WINDOWS 7.

JUST RESTART SYSTEM WITH PEN DRIVE PLUGGED IN AND INSTALL WINDOWS AS YOU WOULD DO USING A DVD.
CHECK OUT THE SPEED!!!!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

SETTING UP BIOS FOR BOOTING FROM PEN DRIVE OR EXTERNAL HDD

What we have to do here is to enable our system to boot from USB Pen Drive.
Before going to details you must check if you really need to change settings in BIOS.
Just press the key (when you start the system with Pen Drive inserted) that opens the boot sequence.This key is generally F10,F12,ESC,etc.


Here if your Pen Drive is listed in the sequence then simply select it to boot.
But if not then read on....

Note : The BIOS(Basic Input Output Setup) varies from PC to PC.Yours may be different (still you could get some "how about" of setting up BIOS from this post).Also some BIOS do not support USB booting (then this tutorial will not help you).


Note of Caution : First read the full post and then try.

The steps are :
1.   Power on your PC and press the key required to enter BIOS setup.This Key is usually F2,DEL or F11 on different systems and is displayed at the first screen when system starts.
At first the screen should look as below


2.   Go to the BOOT option using the right-left arrow keys shown in green box below.
Note: Some system's BIOS do not show the BOOT option.In that case you will find the BOOT ORDER (what we are actually looking for) in some other option.



Once you have found the Boot Order,then it might be that your USB Pen Drive/HDD is disabled from boot order as shown in yellow box.
Using the options shown on the right pane of the screen (in red boxes) you can enable the device (here 'x' is used to enable/disable the device from boot order).

Note : Every system on startup scans for booting devices according to the boot order setup in BIOS.Your system's hard disk is also one of them (usually starting with IDE HDD.....).
Here just make sure that your pen drive is above your system's hdd in boot priority order.This can be done again by using options in the right pane (here F5 and F6 are used to decrease and increase the priority respectively).
If everything has been done right then screen should look as below,with USB device at the top (in red box).


Note : On some BIOS the procedure to change boot priority and enable/disable is not as simple as here.Those who are new to this must not try this as it may damage your system.

3.   After doing so go to the Exit option and exit saving the changes.
 


Now your system is ready to boot from Pen Drive.

FORGOT LOGIN PASSWORD!!!

If you've forgotten login password to your system and are unable to login then you are at right place.....read on....

Windows provides a login facility to user accounts on a system.A user who has an account on the system can authenticate himself by a Username and Password.

There is a solution in Windows XP,we can boot into Safe Mode and simply login using an Administrator account (which is not visible in the normal startup of the system) and change password of any user on that system.
The solution wouldn't work if one has password protected that administrator account and has forgotten its password also.

This Safe Mode method doesn't work in Vista or 7.

The Hard Way is to format your system,which may result in loss of important data.

There are softwares on internet like the Ophcrack which can recover the lost password.But the problem is that it is quite bulky in size (500MB).So why not remove the password instead using a method involving approx 3MB download only.

This method could be used from a Bootable CD or a Pen Drive too.
Note : The system must support USB booting for this method to work from a Pen Drive.

REQUIREMENTS
  • A blank CD-ROM or Pen Drive.
  • UltraISO,a CD/DVD Drive Emulator (Download).
          Note:Download UltraISO only if you are using Pen Drive.
  • Offline NT Password and Registry Editor program ISO Image File (Download).
1)) PREPARING BOOT DEVICE

# If you are using Pen Drive then :
  1. Firstly refer to my post "Setting Up BIOS for Booting from Pen Drive" to enable booting from pen Drive.
  2. After that Download and Install UltraISO.Then Mount the NT passwd and Registry Editor Image File to the Virtual Drive.A small tutorial to work with UltraISO :
    • After installing,go to My Computer.
    • There you will find an extra virtual CD-ROM drive.Right click this drive.
    • In the subsequent selection menu there will be an option "UltraISO".Choose it.
    • Another sub menu will pop out.Choose the option "Mount" here.
    • A window will appear where you can browse your cd-image file.
    • Browse it and click OK.Your CD-IMAGE FILE is now mounted on to the drive.
  3. Now copy all the contents of the Image File to the Pen Drive.
    • If you are working on Vista or Windows 7 then you will have to skip a file from being copied.
    • In XP don't select the first file (probably it has no name) while copying the contents of the Image File.It should then work.
  4. Run CMD (In Vista/7 "run as administrator").
  5. Type the Drive Letter of your Pen Drive,say "x:" (excluding quotes) and press ENTER.
  6. Now type the command "syslinux -ma x:" (excluding quotes) and press ENTER.
  7. Exit CMD.


# If you are using CD then:
Download the Image File from above and simply burn/write it to a blank CD-ROM.Your Bootable CD is ready.


2)) WORKING WITH BOOTABLE DEVICE

1.  Insert the Bootable CD/Pen Drive and restart your system.The system will automatically boot from your bootable and follwing screen will appear.Just press ENTER here and wait for some time until the screen freezes completely(you need to be patient here).

                          

2. After a while the screen looks like below.In the red box are the partitions of your hard disk.It has automatically selected the system partition in which windows is installed.Now press ENTER.


 3.   NOW,

# If the computer was shut down properly,then it's fine and the screen looks as below,asking you the Path and Registry Files,just press ENTER here (to choose the default Path) and proceed to next step.


# But if the computer was not shut down properly then the it will show a warning as below


Here just type in "y" and press ENTER.Now the system must ask you the PATH and Registry Files same way as in first case.Now you can press ENTER and goto next step.

4.   It will show various options as below

The option "1"  for password reset is by default selected and just press ENTER.

5.  Upon doing so the system will show further options as below


Again the option "1" for Editing User Data and Password is selected by default,just press ENTER.

6.  All the user accounts on system with their usernames will be displayed as below


Now Enter the UserName of the account whose password is to be removed (Careful,as it is case sensitive) and press ENTER.

7.   It will then show you some options as below


 Here the option "1" for clearing the password is not selected by default,so type "1"(without quotes,of course) and press ENTER.

 8.   The Password has been cleared now (1st red box).

Enter "!" and press ENTER (2nd red box).

The system will now give you back the same options as in Step 6 (where 1 was by default selected and you pressed ENTER).Now enter the option "q" (to quit) and press ENTER (3rd and 4th boxes).

Now you will be prompted to write back the changes made till now (5th and 6th boxes).Type "y" and press ENTER.
The EDIT is now complete.Type "n" and press ENTER to reject the next prompt (for NEW RUN).
The screen for above should look as below


9.   Now the final screen should look as below,with a "#" at the bottom of the screen.

Now Restart the system and remove the CD/Pen Drive.
THE LOGIN PASSWORD's RESET........




NOTE:
1. This method will remove your password not recover.
2. The method works successfully for windows XP,Vista and Windows 7
3. This is for information purposes only.I am not responsible for any damages or illegal acts resulting from this information.
4. The information provided here should be used for legal purposes only.
5. USB Disk method will not work if your motherboard or BIOS does not suport USB booting.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

WEB DOWNLOADERS

HERE ARE THE SILVER BULLETS....
These are no Rapidhare crack or any,so called,Rapidshare hacks.They simplify downloading files from One-Click-File Hosters like Rapidshare,Megaupload,etc.They can be used by anyone(both premium and non-premium users).Just copy the links and sit back to watch your download complete.
You can also download full movies from rapidshare,storage.to,etc sites.


1)) Jdownloader 

JDownloader is open source, platform independent and written completely in Java.Download and Extract the file.Run the program inside the extracted folder.After installation you are now ready to rock n download.

Whenever you copy any download link while browsing internet,Jdownloader automatically grabs the link.
Once the links are grabbed you can add them to download.It recognises several file sharing sites.Before starting download it will prompt you to accept the TOS (Terms Of Service) of all the different kinds of links,i.e.,If you have added 4 links of rapidshare and 3 links of Mediafire.com then it will prompt you twice,once for rapidshare and once for mediafire.

Jdownloader requires the system to have JAVA runtime enviornment installed.You can download JAVA here,
JAVA Setup


The official website for Jdownloader is http://jdownloader.org/.


2)) E-Corp Elephant Downloader

It is another such application with integrated Web Browser.It does not require JAVA enviornment.It also does not require installation,simply Download and Extract and Run the program (named (E)lephant).It is available in Portable version.But still Jdownloader is more Stable and recommendable.

It works in the same manner as jdownloader by grabbing links copied by you while surfing the net.
Although it does not prompts you to accept any TOS.


The Official website for Elephant downloader is http://www.e-ddl.com/E-Download.php.

Saturday, October 10, 2009

USING GHOST BACKUP/RECOVERY FROM PEN DRIVE

GHOST is a software that can be used to backup or recover any partition on a storage disk connected to your system.
It is much easier to recover system using ghost (if it has been backed up using ghost earlier) than to make fresh installations everytime the system crashes.
Ghost can also be used from a Pen Drive.This is quite handy and helpful if in case CD-DVD ROM is not functioning.


REQUIREMENTS
  • USB-BOOT enabled BIOS.
  • A Pen Drive (any size will work).
  • HP USB Storage Format Tool (Download).
  • Ghost ".exe" file (Download).
  • Windows 98 Boot Files (Download).
1)) SETTING UP BIOS

Before anything is done,check if your BIOS allows USB-BOOTING.
Refer to my post "Setting Up BIOS for Booting from Pen Drive or External HDD" to enable booting from Pen Drive.

2)) PREPARING GHOST BOOTABLE PEN DRIVE


Download and extract the ghost files to any directory of your choice.The file ghost.exe (2.2 MB) is of concern,others are not required.
Download and extract the "Windows 98 Boot Files" to any directory of your choice.
Download and install the HP USB Storage Format Tool.
1.  Run HP Format Tool.
  • In XP simply run the program
  • In Vista/Windows 7 right click the program and choose "run as administrator".
2.  Your Pen Drive will be automatically selected in the device box (if no other usb hdd/pendrive is connected).
3.  File system should be "FAT32" (box 1).
4.  Check the option "quick format" (box 2).
5.  Check the option "create a DOS startup disk" (box 3).
6.  Now browse for "DOS system files" (box 4).

7.  After browsing the folder containing DOS system files Click "Start".
8.  It will show a warning message.Choose "Yes".
9.  Choose "OK" in the subsequent summary window.
10. Now simply copy the Ghost.exe (2.2 MB) file to the Pen Drive.

3)) BACKING UP

1. Restart your system with Pen Drive plugged in.The computer should boot through it and following screen should appear as below


2. Type "ghost" and press ENTER.

3. Press ENTER on the "OK" button on the subsequent screen (showing "About Symantec Ghost").
NOTE : use the up-down-right-left arrow keys to select options

4. Now go to "Local" option.In the Sub Menu go to "Partition" and under its sub menu choose "To Image" as below

                           

5. Now you will be prompted to select the "source disk" (which has the partition to be backed up,one of these will be your pen drive,usually the first one).Use up-down keys to select the source disk.Use "TAB" key to toggle to "OK" or "CANCEL" options.Once "OK" button is selected,press ENTER.

6. Now all the partitions of the selected disk will be listed.Select the partition to be backed up (usually first partition is the System Partition) and press ENTER.

7. Now the screen will appear as below

A. Press "Shift+TAB",this will select the "Look in" box (red box above).Now use up-down arrow keys to select among other partitions to save the backup file.After selecting the desired partition press ENTER to choose it.This will show the contents of the partition.Go to the folder where backup file is to be saved.
B. Now use "TAB" key one or more times to come to the "File name" box.Type in the name of the backup file.
C. Again use "TAB" key one or more times to come to "Save" button and press ENTER.

8.   Once you press ENTER in STEP 7(C) the screen should look as below asking you the level of compression.Choose "High".

                       

9.   It will then ask whether to "Proceed with partition image creation",choose yes and sit back.

10. After image creation is complete press "Continue" and then choose "Quit".Now remove pen drive and restart the computer.Your system has been backed up.
NOTE : An image file may contain more than one partitions if the same file name is used again to backup another partition.


4)) RECOVERING

Everything proceeds same as till STEP 4 of BACKING UP.
In STEP 4 instead of choosing "To Partition" go for "From Partition".
1. On doing so the screen will appear as in STEP 7 of BACKING UP (here you have to browse the backup file from which recovery is to be made).Press "Shift+TAB",this will select the "Look in" box.Now use up-down arrow keys to select the partition in which the backup file is present.Go to the folder containing backup file as shown below

                           

Press "TAB" key one or more times to come to "Open" button and press ENTER.

2. Now select the source partition in the backup file to be restored

                         

3. Now select the Destination Disk (which contains the destination partition to be recovered),using up-down arrow keys and then pressing ENTER.

                           
4. Now select the Destination Partition to be recovered,using up-down arrow keys and pressing enter.

                          

5. Now it will ask you "Proceed with partition restore",Choose "Yes".

6. After Restore Completion,Choose "Reset Computer".Remove Pen Drive and let the System start.Your System is now Recovered.

INSTALLING XP USING PEN DRIVE

WHAT IF YOUR CD-DRIVE FAILS AND UNFORTUNATELY MALICIOUS SOFTWARES AND BAD VIRUSES CEASE YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM ??

You would like to install a fresh copy of windows XP in your system and then clean up your system using a good antivirus.You can use a pen drive to do so.


If your system has crashed and does not start then approach some friend of yours to prepare the Pen Drive.

REQUIREMENTS :
  1. USB-Boot enabled BIOS.
  2. A Pen Drive (Atleast 1GB).
  3. XP Installation Files.
  4. Some Softwares
    1. WinSetupFromUSB (Download).
    2. MBRwiz,To set Pen drive as an Active Partition (Download).
    3. UltraISO,CD-ROM drive emulator (Download).
NOTE : The XP installation files can be obtained by downloading a cd-image file of XP from internet. Alternatively there are rar or zip files available on internet which have the installation files in compressed form. In latter case the "UltraISO" software is not required.

1) SETTING UP BIOS

Before anything is done,check if your BIOS allows USB-BOOTING.

Refer to my post "Setting Up BIOS for Booting from Pen Drive or External HDD" to enable booting from Pen Drive.


2) PREPARING PEN DRIVE AND XP SOURCE

The software WinSetupUSB does the main job.But two things should be fulfilled before using WinSetupUSB :
                1. XP Installation files Source.
                2. A bootable Pen Drive.

# XP Source : You must install UltraISO.It provides a virtual CD-ROM drive on to which we can mount our XP cd-image file.After installing it :
1. Go to My Computer.
2. There you will find an extra virtual CD-ROM drive.Right click this drive.
3. In the subsequent selection menu there will be an option "UltraISO".Choose it.
4. Another sub menu will pop out.Choose the option "Mount" here.
5. A window will appear where you can browse your XP cd-image file.
6. Browse it and click OK.Your CD-IMAGE FILE is now mounted on to the drive.

Instead,if you have the rar or zip files of XP then there's no need to install UltraISO,you can simply extract the files to a folder and provide it's path as the source path in WinSetupUSB when required.

# Bootable Pen Drive : If you are working on XP to prepare the pen drive then you will need the software MBRwiz2.0.But if you are working on Vista or Windows 7 then MBRwiz is not required.

If You Are Working On XP :
download the file MBRwiz2.0 and extract to a folder (i extract to the directory d:/temp).

1. Open command prompt(cmd).

2. Use command 'cd' to go to the directory where you extracted MBRwiz2.0 (as shown below,Click the image for zoomed view).Then type the following command "mbrwiz /list" (all commands must be typed without the quotes) as shown in red box and press ENTER.


3. Once you do so,it will dislpay all the storage devices connected to the system and their respective partitions,here "disk 1" is the Pen Drive.By default the active parameter is set to "no" for Disk 1(shown in red box).Now type the command "mbrwiz /disk=1 /active=1" and press ENTER.
Note : the command should be typed as it is,be careful with spaces too.

                           
                  

4. Now it will ask for confirmation.Type 'y' and press enter.Then the screen should look as below

              
5. Now the Pen Drive is an active partition and can be made bootable.

Note : The Pen Drive is not bootable now,it is an Active Partition.Only an Active Partition can be made bootable.The software WinSetupUSB will itself make it bootable as required.
Also in step 3 if you type command "mbrwiz /disk=1 /active=0" then the pen drive will become inactive partition as it was earlier.

For Vista/Windows 7 :

1. Go to start menu type "cmd",right click it and select "run as administrator".
2. Type "diskpart" and press enter.
3. Type "list disk" and press enter.It will show all the storage devices connected to system.Here "Disk 1" is the pen drive(if no other pen drive/cd/dvd is jacked in).
4. Type "select disk 1" and press enter.
5. Type "list partition" and press enter.It will list the partitions on pen drive,usually there is only one partition as "partition 1".
6. Type "select partition 1" and press enter.
7. Now type "active".This makes the pen drive active partition.To make it inactive simply type 
"inactive" instead of "active".

3) WORKING WITH WINSETUPUSB

Download and Install the software.After installing plug in the pen drive and run the software from shortcut icon on desktop.
1. The pen drive will be automatically selected if properly set as active partition.If not then try
refreshing.If it still does not detect pen drive then repeat above steps properly.If the problem
still persists then your pen drive is not supported by this software version (although it supports a
wide range of pen drives like kingston,san disk,transcend,etc).
 Now browse for the XP installation files as shown below


2. Once you have browsed the source path and the status is ready (shown in red box) go for
"HP format tool"

  

3. Choose "FAT32" as file system,check the "quick format" option and click "start".

 
4. Choose "Yes" when warning message pops up.

5. Click "OK" when format is complete.

6. Now when the status is ready (shown in red box),click "GO".

   

7. It will take some time to complete preparing the pen drive.After it completes it will show a
message that computer will boot 3 times.


4) INSTALLING WINDOWS XP

The pendrive is ready now.You can now install XP on your system.
This installation is bit different but not difficult as you will have to press several ENTERs only.
There are three phases in XP installation :
1. Text Mode, where we create and format partition to copy XP installation files.
2. GUI Mode, where actual installation takes place.
3. Desktop Logon.

STEPS :
1. Plug in the pen drive and restart your computer.
2. In the FIRST BOOT,the screen will look as below

3. Just press ENTER.Now the screen will look as below


4. Again press ENTER,the "First part of windows professional XP setup" will start.At this
you will enter the "Text Mode".Here you can proceed normally as you do while installing
XP from CD-ROM.


5. After formatting and copying files the System will now boot SECOND time.The same
screen appears as in step 1.
6. Press ENTER.
7. Now the same screen as in step 2 will appear except that the second option
"Second part of XP professional setup + Start windows for first time" is
pre-highlighted.Here press ENTER again.
8. The GUI Mode will start in normal way as if installing from CD-ROM.

9. After GUI mode the system will boot for THIRD time.In this boot proceed exactly as from
step 5-7.In shortcut you have to press ENTER two more times.
10. Your XP is  now installed