Showing posts with label Boot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boot. Show all posts

Friday, December 21, 2012

Plop Boot Manager - Boot from USB even if your BIOS does not support it

By  at  12:16 PM   ,   14 comments


Plop is a free boot manager program, allowing users to boot to a number of different operating systems. Users have the option of loading the boot manager from a floppy disk, CD, or a network, or it can be installed and run from a hard drive. Once in the boot manager, users can boot to an operating system using a hard drive, floppy disk, CD, DVD, or even from a USB thumb drive.


Plop allows users to set up a portable operating system for various purposes, including troubleshooting and repair capabilities, various programming environments and other uses. Plop is a free program to download and use and works for booting nearly any Windows operating systems from Windows 95 to Windows 7.

You can download it from Here!


Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows XP

By  at  1:20 AM   ,   No comments



DUAL BOOT WINDOWS USING EASYBCD
(assume single disk with Windows 7 installed in first partition)

1. Boot from CD or USB and Install Official Windows XP.
2. Reboot with Windows 7 / Vista Repair (or install) disk.
3. Go to command prompt and do:
·         Bootrec /fixmbr
·         Re-Boot
4. Then windows 7 / Vista can be loaded.
5. Install and Run EasyBCD (free for non-commercial use).
6. Go to "add new entry", select Type: WindowsNT/XP/2000.
               Name: Microsoft Windows XP
               Drive: - - -
7. Then go to "Bootloader setup" and select "Install the windows 7     
    bootloader to MBR" and hit "Write to MBR".
8. Restart!!!


Now everything should be ok!!!

Dual Boot Android and Windows

By  at  1:02 AM   , ,   No comments



DUAL BOOT ANDROID USING EASYBCD

(assume single disk with Windows 7 installed in first partition)

  1. Download EasyBCD (free for non-commercial use).
  2. Download Android 4.
  3. Install Android to your partition, install grub and add the windows to it when it see it.
  4. Run Android after your done to make sure it works.
  5. Reboot and select Windows from the Grub Menu.
  6. Run EasyBCD and select add entry, select NeoGrub, select install, save changes and exit.
  7. Open My computer, double click on Android disk, double click grub, copy menu.lst....exit..(assumes FAT32 format)
  8. Open My computer, double click on Windows disk, double click NST folder, paste menu.lst.....exit
  9. Reboot with Windows 7 Repair(or install) disk.
  10. Go to command prompt and do:
  • Bootrec /fixmbr
  • Re-Boot

Now everything should be ok!!!