Create and Format bootable USB flash drives with Rufus

Create and Format bootable USB flash drives with Rufus

Rufus stands for the Reliable USB Formatting Utility with Source. It is a tiny and lightweight utility for Windows PC, that helps to easily format, as well as create USB drives, such as USB keys, memory-sticks, and USB pen-drives etc., which are bootable and user-friendly. It has advanced and standard options to suit all the skill levels.

Create bootable media easily

This tool has a user friendly interface which looks like the built-in format panel of Windows. We can choose a partition scheme, device, cluster size, target system type, new volume label and file system types � like NTFS, FAT32, exFATand UDF..

There are a few basic formatting options available, which help us check the device to see if there are any bad blocks. It also helps in the selection of algorithms (from type 1 to type 4), we can create an extendable label, quick format mode and icon files. A bootable disk is created using the ISO image. Rufus tool records all the activities to a different panel, and it is saved into a log file.

This multifaceted tool is useful when:

• USB installation media need to be created from bootable ISOs (Linux, Windows, and UEFI)
• A person wants to work on a computer in which an OS is not installed
• For the purpose of flashing a BIOS or any other DOS, firmware is required
• A person wishes to run a low-level utility.

New features in Rufus 2.1.649:

• 32 bit support range for UEFI: NTFS boot
• Addition of Advanced mode stand-alone UEFI: NTFS with boot installation
• Disable support for hidden GRUB version ISOs
• Repair and correct Windows UEFI installation related issues while using GPT/NTFS.
• generating a repair of 32 bit installation flash drives in UEFI Windows 10.

Rufus for Windows free download

Rufus is arguably the best solution for creating and formatting a bootable USB drive. Download your copy of Rufus from the official website here.

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Creates A Virtual Encrypted Disk with Password Protect in your USB flash Drive or Hard drive

Creates A Virtual Encrypted Disk with Password Protect in your USB flash Drive or Hard drive

Creates A Virtual Encrypted Disk with Password Protect in your USB flash Drive or Local Hard drive using TrueCrypt Free Software. First download And Install TrueCrypt in your System Computer. For more updates you can visit the main source here .

Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Create,
Mount, and Use a TrueCrypt Volume Encryption.

The main TrueCrypt window should appear. .

Step 1:


Click Create Volume (marked with a red rectangle for clarity).

Step 2:


Choose Creates an Encrypted File Container and Click Next.

Step 3:


Choose Standard TrueCrypt Volume, Select this option if you want to create a normal TrueCrypt volume

Step 4:



Select A File, or Create a file then Save and Click Next

Step 5:


Click Next

Step 6:



Choose Default Encryption Option Click Next.

Step 7:


Select Your Volume Size, TrueCrypt Will Detect All Free Space available in your local Drive. Click Next.

Step 8:


Insert Password for your TrueCrypt, TrueCrypt Recommend choosing a password more than 20 character (the longer, ther better). click Next

Step 9:


If password below 20 character TrueCrypt alert you, You can choose yes if you dont want longer password.

Step 10:


Select Yes if you want TrueCrypt Store more Than 4GB in your Drive. Click Next.

Step 11:


Click Format, Wait until TrueCrypt Finish Formating Your Encrypted Drive


To Mount Created Volume

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Copy Text from Images and Flash OCR

Copy Text from Images and Flash OCR

When you surf through web you may have seen some websites which doesn�t allow their content to be copied. In order to protect their data (text) they use images, flash or any other method. Here I am giving you some methods to extract/copy text from images. This can also be used copy text from games and printed notes. Also known as OCR (Optical Character Recognition). I don�t know whether it can copy text from Hand written. Check it out yourself. Here are the steps�

1) Open file or website which you want to copy the text.
2) Press the Print Screen button (Prt Scr � just above the delete button).
3) Using Photoshop or any other image editing tools crop the area only you want.
4) Drag the picture to Microsoft office Onenote. Right click and �Copy Text from picture�.
5) Paste the text any where you want.

If you don�t have MS office Onenote logon to www.free-ocr.com

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Corel Draw X3 Portable Bisa Masuk Flash

Corel Draw X3 Portable Bisa Masuk Flash

bagi yang pengen desain tanpa harus bawa sekantong CD/DVD aplikasi yang bisa memberatkan, kini udah ada portable Corel yang mudah dibawa kemana saja tanpa harus istalasi dahulu ke komputer korban yang ingin dubuatkan desain atau hanya sekedar ingin mengetahui gambar desain yang akan dibuat.
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Create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive

Create a bootable Windows 7 USB flash drive

The USB flash drive has replaced the floppy disk drive as the best storage medium for transferring files, but it also has its uses as a replacement for CDs and DVDs. USB drives tend to be higher in capacity than disc media, but since they are more expensive, they cannot (yet) really be used as a replacement. There are reasons why you would, however, choose a USB device over a DVD disc, and bootable software is definitely one of them. Not only is it faster to copy data such as setup files from a USB drive, but during usage the access times are also significantly faster. Therefore, installing something like Windows 7 will work that much faster from a USB drive than from a DVD (and of course, is particularly useful for the PCs without an optical drive; this isnt something we should just leave for the pirates to enjoy).

This guide will show you two different ways to create a USB flash drive that works just like a Windows 7 DVD. In order to follow this guide, youll need a USB flash drive with at least 4GB of free space and a copy of the Windows 7 installation disc.

Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool

You are normally given this tool when you purchase from the online Microsoft Store

The easiest way to turn a USB flash drive into a bootable Windows 7 installer is by using the tool Microsoft offers, cunningly named the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool. To get started, download the installer [exe] from Microsoft.com and follow the basic steps to put it onto your computer; you can put it on the computer you plan to install Windows 7 on or another one, it doesnt matter.

Once it is installed, it should create an icon on your desktop, so double-click that to open. If you cant find it, use the search function in the Start Menu with a keyword like "USB." Launching it should give you the above screen, and step one is to find the Windows 7 .ISO file. The tool only accepts .ISO images, so we recommend that you convert yours if its in a different DVD image format.

Step two is straightforward: simply choose USB device.

In step three, all you have to do is make sure that you are choosing the correct USB device. If you have other data on the device, move it to your hard drive, another USB device, or somewhere else before proceeding.

The tool will prompt you if it detects data on the device. Once your data is backed up elsewhere, click Erase USB Device.

You will get another prompt warning you that all the data will be wiped. Click Yes to continue.

The format will be very quick, while the copying of the files will take a little bit more time (about 10 to 15 minutes).

 Once the process is complete, you should get the above confirmation message. At this point you can close the tool and use the USB drive to install Windows 7. Remember that youll have to choose to boot off the USB drive. Before doing so, you may want to open up the USB drive and double click on setup.exe to see if everything looks okay. If you want to be able to do this manually, see the next section, and if you want to be able to install any edition of Windows 7, skip to the section after that.

Manual Creation

 

Maybe you dont like that Microsoft violated the GPL with the first version of the above tool (the company has since GPLed the code), or youre old-school and just love using the command prompt. Regardless of what your reasons are for creating a bootable Windows 7 USB drive manually, we have the scoop on how to do it. First, open the command prompt (if you use UAC make sure to right click it and choose "Run as administrator"), type "diskpart" without the quotes, and hit enter. You can also get here by simply typing "diskpart" without the quotes into the Start Menu and hitting enter.

Now type "list disk" without the quotes and hit enter. Take a look at the Size column and figure out which disk number your USB drive is. Ours is number 1, so were going to type "select disk 1" without the quotes and hit enter. Now were going to wipe it by typing "clean" without the quotes and hitting enter (make sure to do a backup of the contents if you havent already). 

At this point we want to prepare the USB drive for the files and make sure it is bootable. Type "create partition primary" without the quotes and hit enter. Then type "select partition 1" without the quotes and hit enter. Next type "active" without the quotes and hit enter. Finally, type "format fs=fat32" without quotes and hit enter (if you choose to use ntfs, youll later have to run the "Bootsect.exe /nt60 G:" command to put boot manager compatible files onto your USB flash drive to make it a bootable device). This one will take a while, so go grab a snack, well wait. When thats done, type "assign" without the quotes and hit enter (this will assign a new drive letter to the USB flash drive). 

An AutoPlay window like the one above will appear. Remember the drive letter (in our case it is H:), close the window, type "exit" without the quotes and hit enter. If you are working with an .ISO image, the best way to do this last part is to mount the file with a program like Virtual Clone Drive. Alternatively, you can extract the files from the .ISO image and simply copy them to the USB drive, but since weve been using the command prompt up to this point, well show you how to do the last step with it as well.

If you dont have the command prompt open, open it with administrative privileges, type "xcopy f:*.* /s/e/f hg:" without the quotes and hit enter. Note that you will likely have to replace "f:" with the drive letter for your Windows 7 DVD and "g:" with the drive letter for your USB flash drive. Dont worry if install.wim takes a while to copy: its easily the biggest file on the disc.

Bonus: install any edition of Windows 7

This is a completely optional step and you only want to do this if you want to be able to choose which edition of Windows 7 to install. In the command prompt, type "del g:sourcesei.cfg" without the quotes and hit enter (where g: is your USB flash drive).

This will make sure that your Windows 7 installer no longer has a specific version of Windows 7 set as the default, and you will be prompted to choose the version you want to install. Remember that while this gives you a more universal Windows 7 installer, you still need to make sure you are choosing the edition that you own, or you will not be able to activate Windows 7 with the key you have obtained.

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