yordan

You are inderctly asking how to copy a protected DVD.This kind of piracy how-to's are against our forum rules.If you need a Windows7 iso, you purchase it from Microsoft.If you want a new copy of the Windows7 DVD, you purchase it from Microsoft.Any other option is firbidden by international copyright conventions.

You should expect faster speeds in processes read-most/write-once.If you create a big file, rename it, create a second one, remove the first one, it will go faster as long as the disk is 5% fragmented, and will slow down as soon as your disk start being over 40% fragmented.

However, my question of how to create bootable iso images of windows disk still remains unanswered.

Recently, I failed creating iso images several times.
Creating a bootable image is a good test for yor iso creating software. And also a test for your DVD reader. And also a test of the protections. Unfortunately, some manufacturers don't want you to dmuplate the DVD's you purchased, that's why sometimes they introduce in their DVD some features (like laser holes or precisely located bad tracs) which make the copy very difficult.
Only try/reject seems to be the best way. Now we have the starpoint info : seems that your version of Power ISO does not work on your hardware for creating bootable iso's off your Dodows7 DVD.

By the way, there is another option : creating your bootable USB directly from the Microsoft DVD you purchased.

Wintoflash seems to do the job correctly, see http://wintoflash.com/home/en/

People here (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ ) say that it works fine from a real DVD to a USB flashdisk.

 

And also here http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

is explained a very simple way how to do everything with standard Windows 7 commands : how to format your USB drive, make it bootable with the D:/BOOT/BOOTSECT.EXE utility on the DVD, and copy everything all files from your original DVD to the flashdrive

Of course, this uses very standard but also very dangerous commands. You know the "format" commands which is able to remove all your data, "diskpart" is another command you should be careful, "list disk" first and don't give the wrong disk when typing "select disk 1", "clean", "create partition" : if your USB is not "disk1", you lost a lot of useful things.

So do you have any suggestion for me?When I use the "Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool" to create a usb from a downloaded (pirated) .iso image of windows 7, it works. However when I create an iso of my original windows 7 disk, it doesn't work... The question I have in mind is how are these .iso images created. There must be something I am doing wrong while creating the iso image...
I don't want to install a pirated OS on my computer and I badly need to get this to work..

That's probably the main problem.
The "Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool" is given to work with the iso file downloaded from the Microsoft Store.
If you didn't obtain the iso file from Microsoft, that's another problem.
A third problem is : how to create a working iso file from a DVD.
Some softwares on the market work correctly, and some other ones don't work. And of course, a working software can fail if used on a faulty DVD reader.
You can do a very simple test.
The iso file you obtained from your original CD, try burning it on rewritable DVD, and look if your PC can boot on it.
If the iso file you made is not able to create a bootable DVD, it will not be able to create a bootable USB!

Depends on what you name performance.Having to do a single I/O unstead several ones, means that each I/0 action will last several times less. In some cases, you can reduce your writing time by 90%

You will have to do quite a big job on the file descriptors of the NTFS disk. Windows is the best choice for doing that.

If your hard drive is really full, you cannot defrag <_<Have a look at the defrag progs you have, but most of them need at least 10 to 20% free space in order to be able to perform the defrag.And, of course, the answer is obvious : you need a Windows defrag for the Windows disks, and a Linux defrag for the Linux part.I use defraggler for my Windows disks. Unfortunately, it's not supported for Linux.

My bad !
I must have been sleepy or something.....

No problem. Most of IT people have to sleep from time to time.

Are these steps for windows XP. I don't think they are for windows 7. And if I am correct then please tell me the procedure for windows 7 in a similar simple way.

Huh? These steps seem to be there on my Windows7 system.
Of course, they have been automatically configured at first poweron, the OS detected the Ethernet cable and asked me if I want to be connected to the Internet (why not?)
However, I see that all these steps (start, control panel, create a new network) are still available with Windows7, so everything should work fine if you do like Robart was telling you.

From here also, it isn't loading. open a ticket to Xisto - Support, they will fix it.

The hardware has backwards compatibility, but probably firmwares have to be loaded for both USB2 and USB3. And of course, if your front pannel is a USB1 one...

Of course, the best way is asking the ups provider the question "how long can it rescue a laptop?"The other way is calculating an approximated value.The UPS has a battery, which content is expressed in terms of AH (for instance 50 AH means 50 ampers/hour).Then you look at the power supply entry of your laptop or your PC, how much ampers it's stated using.For instance, mine is 220Volts 1 Amper.This means 220 VA (220 volts time 1 amper).The 50 AH battery will be able to sustain it during (50/220=0.27 hour) which means 13 minutes.Of course, there is some loss, so probably a 50AH UPS will be able to sustain your 220 watts PC during about 6 minutes.Hope this helpedRegardsYordan

Nice topic, thanks. However, it does not meet the requirements for being considered as a tutorial.That's why I moved your topic here, where it's place most probably is.RegardsYordan

Update:Just needed to drop the script onto text file naming it name.sh and made executable with chmod -x then run it on terminal... and done..

Ha-Ha, that's one of the standard things you must know in Unix/linux world : people are so familiar with chmod-ing a script or "sh -x" the script, that they often forget to tell you that you have to do this when they write down the install instructions.

Have a look at the guest's machine username and permissions.Also, see if you can share a folder on the XP machine and see it from the Linux samba. Use the fully command line syntax, where you type the XP machine name, the share name, the username and the password.

Could it be alright that will put thing about this in my small personal weblog if I post a reference to http://forums.xisto.com/ ?

Of course, if you quote the text and refence to the original Xisto article, we agree.

It would be really handy, if there can be some sort of script put into the autorun.inf file of the portable media that will automatically make the associations once the device is inserted. In this way I would still get the associations rather painlessly without making proper installation of the software. And the best part would be that I would be able to use the same apps on different computers without wasting any time.

That is true for your own computer. And, of course, on your own computer, the binaries don't need to be on the removable media.
The real interest of a portable software on a removable media, is the ability to put it on another computer.
In that case, the interest of the portable thing is to change nothing on the computer. If the friend's computer uses Crosoft player for the flv files, trying my portable app on my USB disk should not change that point.
But it's still interesting to test how my portable software shows his movie, or his picture.
It's interesting to have a portable media if you receive a ".odt" text file. But reading this ".odt" file should not change your PC settings, saying that every document has to be opened with Microsoft Office Word. Use the portable version only to make a temporary test.

and as i mentioned earlier.... this association will have to be done everytime you plug in the portable media

Even if you plug the media in the same USB socket, which will make the disk available under the same letter (let's say h:\) ?

I wont be able to open file.docx by double clicking on it. I will have to open the standalone software first

This is the false situation: "docx" is the extension for microsoft office or or microsoft reader. There is no portable version for that, you have to install microsoft office or microsoft word viewer, and this will associate the "docx" file extension with office binaries.
By the way, if you have a portable application, you can at any time associate ".flv" to the VLC binary, whether it's the portable version or not. You click on a "flv" file, it does not work because natively it's associated to nothing, you install the portable version of your viewer, you associate the ".flv" extension to the portable viewer software and you can open your file by simply clicking on it's name in the Microsoft file explorer.

i can only browse the photos

That's right, usually when you connect your iphone, it's seen as a disk, but you can only browse your photos. This also allows you to save the photos.

More precise info here :http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-ways-to-turn-your-iphone-into-an-external-hard-disk/

seems that you have to enable tethering, a lot of info here google.com/?q=tether+iphone+to+linux+usb

 

I have no iphone, and my main is not not linux currently, so I cannot test these solutions, telle me if it works for you. Of course, take care doing nothing dangerous on your iphone, you know that some settings are not easily reversible.

its funny that some of the patented features are actually allowed considering the number of people who analyses them... i guess with enough money you can patent some of the silliest features and sue others for using them (even if they came up with the idea themselves)

The problem is that you cannot patent something which already exists. I cannot patent a black vert vertical box for a computer, because this already exists, and has probably been patented tens of years ago!

The problem is that Apple designers spend a lot of time working on the look and feel of their devices. Then, a lot of people love this design.And, of course, when something becomes popular, all manufacturers want to do the same thing.