How To Convert FAT/FAT32 to NTFS without losing Data

How To Convert FAT/FAT32 to NTFS without losing Data

So, Why Use NTFS over FAT32?

Let’s say you have FAT32. You want to unrar a large file (> 4 GB) and Windows tells you that you cannot unpack it because you don’t have enough hard drive space. Even if you do, you’ll still generate this error. This is because FAT32 drives do not support large files on it (anything over 4 GB).

Solution / How to Do It:

You don’t need to install a program to change the filetype from FAT32 to NTFS.

1. Press the Start button.

2. Go to Run…

3. Type in "cmd" without the quotes, press OK.

You will then see this:

4. Go to your C:/ folder, by typing in cd\, (or "cd.."just as long till you have reached C:/ ). See above image. Likewise, type in "cd c:\" works, as well.

5. Go to your "My Computer" icon, and see the name of the letter that stands in from of the drive you want to convert!

6. Back in cmd, Press in "CONVERT X: /FS:NTFS" (without the quotes). The X is for the letter your system drive, or external drive name. (see Step 5)

7. On the question ‘convert lost chains top files Y/N?‘ press ‘y‘ and continue.

8. cmd will now check the file system and the rest. If your cmd finishes, your file system is converted to NTFS. You can close down cmd. (If you want to check if it really did finished, go to ‘My Computer’ and right click on the drive, select ‘Properties’ to see what kind of file system it has).

9. If cmd says: ‘X: was not converted to NFTS, the conversion failed etc, you must follow the next steps!

10. As you can see above, my cmd failed the first time. Next solution.

11. Type in "chkdsk X: /f", where X is the letter of your drive. Wait a while to finish.

12. You’ll be asked to ‘convert lost chains top files Y/N?‘ press ‘y‘ and continue. Wait for it to finish.

13. After this, cmd will say that converting was successful. Check it by going to your computer, and single click on the drive to see what kind of file system your drive has. You may need to repeat step 6.

How To Install Windows Vista via Flash Drive

How To Install Windows Vista via Flash Drive

• Open Command Prompt, type “diskpart” and press[Enter].

• Type “list disk” and press[Enter]. Carefully note down the USB flash drive’s disk number listed here. For example, Disk 1 is USB drive, disk 0 is C:

• Type “select disk 1” and press[Enter]. Here the diskpart utility is instructed to choose the disk 1 as the drive to be worked on.

• Type “clean” and press[Enter]. This command is to clear information on the volumes, partitions on the USB flash drive.

• Type “create partition primary” and press[Enter]. This command is executed to create primary partitoin on USB flash drive.

• Type “select partition 1” and press[Enter]. This command instructs the Diskpart utility to select the newly created partition.

• Type “active” and press[Enter]. This command will make current partition active to enable the USB flash drive to boot from.

• Type “format fs=fat32” and press[Enter]. This command formats the drive to Fat32 file system.

• Type “assign”and press[Enter]. This command assign a drive letter to newly formatted partition.

• Exit from Diskpart utility by typing “exit” and press[Enter].

• Now insert the Windows Vista if you are not yet insert the CD/DVD.
  

Assume that your DVD-drive is E:\ and your USB flash drive is F:\
Then type “xcopy e:\*.* /s /e /f F:\” and press[Enter].

Wait until all the process done. Now your USB flash drive is ready to install Vista.

#This command will dump all the contents of Windows Vista from DVD onto the USB flash drive.
#Nest step is to set your BIOS to boot from USB. Done !

How To Disable Windows Security Alerts

How To Disable Windows Security Alerts

Windows Security Alerts usually appeared when you disable either Virus Protection, Firewall or Automatic Updates.

In this example, I've turn off the Automatic Updates. And then you will get something like this :-


So how to disable or turn off this windows security alerts ?

Its simple. First of all, go to Control Panel > Security Center.

On the left bar, click on "Change the way Security Center alerts me"


Alert Settings windows will pop out.So just "uncheck" Automatic Updates and the balloon will disappear..



That's all.

DOTA crash - Blue Screen Solution

DOTA crash - Blue Screen Solution

This blue screen of death happened to my friend's computer when trying to play D.O.T.A.
He's using Nvidia Geforce 8500GT on XP machine. So everytime he try to play Frozen Throne (aka D.O.T.A) in the middle of the game the blue screen appears saying something like :-

stop: 0x0000008E ( 0xC0000005 0xA8581A5E 0xBA2A771C 0x00000000)
RTKHDAud.sys A8581A5E A8522000

Then he asked me to fix this problem. Based on the error, RTKHDAud.sys is the culprit.Which means the problem is related to Realtek High Definition audio driver.

So, I just uninstalled the Realtek HD driver and download this driver after read from forums,suggesting that this driver could work.

>> Download Realtek HD Driver <<

Re-install the driver that I've just downloaded and restart the computer. I try running the Frozen Throne and got no problem...

Maybe this problem happened to other person and I hope this guide will help you to solve the problem and you can play D.O.T.A very well.

How To Create Your Own Windows XP Live CD

How To Create Your Own Windows XP Live CD

By following this guide you can now create a CD that runs Win XP without being installed, and use it to troubleshoot and recover crashed machines.

A live CD contains an OS configured to run directly off the CD, ie, it need not be installed on the system. Just pop the CD into the system's drive, boot from it and the OS will be up and running, without tampering with the OS loaded on your system's hard drive. This can be a very handy tool for network administrators for tasks such as, recovering data from crashed desktops or doing other troubleshooting tasks. Most live CDs till now had been based on Linux, with the most popular one being Knoppix. But, now there's a live CD that runs Win XP.


What You Need :-

• A Windows XP SP2 install CD

• Bart's PE Builder (Download Here)

Next, it will give you a plug-in list from where you need to select programs that you want to put on the live
CD. There are some very useful programs for system recovery, such as Nero for burning CDs, Ghost,
Snapshot, DOS 16-bit support and Easy Recovery Pro.

Besides the default plug-ins that come with PE-Builder, you can also download your own from here:

http://oss.netfarm.it/winpe/plugins.php

Finally, after you’ve chosen all the plug-ins, you’re ready to create an ISO image of your live Win XP CD.
Click on Next, and you’ll be asked to provide a path where the program will dump all files temporarily.
Tick the ‘Create ISO Image’ option and give the path and ISO file name to be created. It will start creating
the content for the live CD in the output folder. If the content is created successfully, it will also
automatically create an ISO image. Now you just have to use any burning software such as Nero and burn
the image on a CD.

>> DOWNLOAD GUIDE HERE(pdf) <<

How To Improve Your Internet Speed ?

How To Improve Your Internet Speed ?

Its quite a long time since I last update this blog since I'm a bit busy right now.Today I got free time and I thought I would like to update this blog with new info or tips. While stumbling and googling around, I found a great info on how you can increase or improve your internet speed. I've tried and it seems working just fine...

Here's the step that you could do to improve your internet performance without using any additional software....

1) go Start > Run and type “gpedit.msc” - without the quotes . A "Group Policy" window will appear.


2) On the Left Navigation, go to Computer Configuration > Adminstative Templates > Network > QoS Packet Sceduler. On the Right site, you will see this. (refer the image below)


4) Double click on the Limit Reservation Bandwidth and set the settings as you seen below.

Note : Usually, your Bandwidth limit(%) will be set 20%.

Then, click OK and you're done !!!

Making Command Prompt

Making Command Prompt

This tutorial will teach you how to make a new command prompt, just in case your computer has been infected by worm like Hakaglan.A. This worm actually will disable your command prompt. So, by following this tutorial you will be able to open command prompt for temporary usage.

Here's the steps you have to follow.
Open your Notepad program and type in :-


Then you need to save this file as .bat file.

Double click the .bat file and viola, you got back your command prompt.