Install Windows XP using Pen Drive / USB Drive.

Install Windows XP using Pen Drive / USB Drive.

Yes, you can install windows / linux or any other operating system using your pen drive. In this tutorial we are using pen drive to install windows XP.

Requirements :

-> A pen drive [1gb / 2 gb is sufficient]
-> A software application i.e. WinSetupFromUSB
-> A working system
-> Windows CD or image file

Steps to follow : -

1. Download & Run WinSetupFromUSB application link to which is given above in requirements

2. Now just keep on selecting next during the setup and the program will run automatically once the setup is finished :)

3. Insert / Plug in your pen drive into the computer and backup anything important from it as we are going to format your pen drive. We are going to make it useful for installing OS.

4. In the WinSetupFromUSB-0.1.1 window: click Refresh next the USB selection box. The USB pen you have just plugged in should now be visible in the drop down menu. Select the usb drive from the drop down list.

5. Now either insert your windows CD and give the path in the Windows2000/XP/2003 source or just mount your windows image n give the path of the same.

Just click browse and give the path to your CD/IMAGE.

6. Now at first click the HP format tool button to format your pen drive. Just click next as it is and accept all windows. Don't change any selection.

7. Then click PE to USB button



8. Now Tick the Enable Disk Format box under Format Options and Tick Quick Format and Enable LBA (FAT16X).
Also make sure that Enable File Copy is not ticked.


9. Click Start. Click Yes when the pop up asks if you wish to continue. Click Yes again when the pop up asks you if you are sure you wish to continue. When you get the Completed successfully message click OK and close PEtoUSB.

10. In the WinSetupFromUSB-0.1.1 window: Click GO. The Program will now create a bootable windows XP install on your USB pen drive. Here you have to wait a while untill it finishes.

11. Then, Click agree to the “SYSINTERNALS SOFTWARE LICENSE TERMS” pop up.

12. Click OK to the “This is Important” pop up.

13. The creation process is now complete: Take the newly formatted USB Pen and place it in the USB port of the target computer and turn it on.

NOTE: You must now read carefully what pops up on the screen as it will provide you with the hot-key (keyboard shortcut key) that, when pressed, triggers access to the BIOS. It is usually something like F1, F2, Delete, Tab or Escape.

14. Navigate the BIOS with the keyboard and find the section that contains your boot devices. With your USB drive plugged in, the USB drive should be listed. If it isn’t, your system might not support booting from USB.

15. Assuming that it is supported (as is the case with virtually all modern hardware), promote your USB drive to the primary boot device.

16. Exit from the BIOS configuration, saving all changes.

17. The computer will now reboot. Assuming that you have successfully compiled the bootable USB XP install and that you have successfully selected the USB device to be booted first in the bios a screen should appear which reads Windows 2000/XP/2003 Setup - First and Second Parts . Press Enter. You will now be presented with 2 options.

Select Option 1 (first part) for the first stage of the installation process.

18. When the first stage setup completes and system reboots select Windows 2000/XP/2003 Setup - First and Second Parts, then Option 2 (second part) for the second stage of the setup.

DO NOT REMOVE THE USB PEN FROM USB PORT UNTIL YOU SEE THE WINDOWS START MENU

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Enjoy!!!!

References : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444

Cognizant : Accelerating even in Economic Headwinds

Fourth Quarter Revenue Up 26% Year-over-year and 2.5% Sequentially
Full-year Revenue Increases 32%

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation (NASDAQ: CTSH), a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services shows that it can accelerate even in tough times :-)......

Below are some official wordings picked up from companies site :

"We are pleased with our fourth quarter and full year 2008 financial performance. We exceeded our most recent revenue guidance and continued to generate industry-leading growth," said Francisco D’Souza, President and CEO of Cognizant. “The Cognizant value proposition stems from our deep understanding of the industry-specific and cyclical issues our clients confront. Our 2008 results demonstrate that even in the face of significant economic headwinds, clients turn to Cognizant as a trusted advisor to help them improve business performance and tap into new growth opportunities in an evolving economy.”

Mr. D’Souza continued: "As we look forward to 2009, we will continue to reinvest in our business in order to capitalize on opportunities for continued growth and increased market share. We are committed to maintaining our culture of openness and transparency and our tradition of the highest standards of ethics and corporate governance in our dealings with customers, employees, shareholders and other stakeholders."

Source : Cognizant

"Cloud Computing & Virtualization" - The Next

SOURCE :- Taken from www.CXOTODAY.com




The initiative will be backed by a total investment of $2 billion over three years.

With the proliferation of the mobile Web, the average individual's "information footprint" - the digitization of entertainment, healthcare, security, social networking, retail preferences - will grow from 1 terabyte (about 50,000 trees cut and printed) per year to more than 16 terabytes by 2020, according to IBM.

"As India goes through a radical shift away from the decades-old client/server model to a radically more efficient Internet-style architecture, we have taken a giant leap to address foreseen customer challenges with the new information infrastructure launch. With our future investments and key acquisitions throughout the last 24 months we have cemented our strategy to provide information on demand," said Shashi B Mal, director, Systems and Technology Group, IBM India/ South Asia.

"There is no bigger opportunity for our clients than to unlock the value they have in their data centers and help them create smart, innovative offerings for their end users - the consumer. IBM is the only company in the world - not HP, not EMC, not Sun -- with decades of research, industry knowledge, market leadership and the end-to-end capabilities to make this a reality for our clients."

Shailesh Agarwal, vice-president (Business Systems) Systems & Technology Group - IBM India/South Asia said, "Infrastructures need to adapt to meet this demand, and in response, IBM today is delivering critical elements for an information infrastructure as part of its New Enterprise Data Center strategy. These elements focus on the availability, compliance and retention, and security pain points for clients as they re-design their data centers."

"More than 30 new and upgraded products and services are being introduced across the IBM portfolio to meet these critical needs. These tools and technology resources which IBM has been developing and amassing, open doors to new industry collaborations, and on demand storage technologies - a key pillar in the emergence of cloud computing."

Today's infrastructure is not designed to efficiently manage the estimated two billion people who will be on the Web by 2011 nor the expected one trillion connected objects - cars, appliances, cameras, roadways, pipelines - comprising "the Internet of things", IBM stated in its press release.

Businesses require cost-effective, scale-out technologies and must be prepared for this new phase of "cloud computing," giving consumers access to data and systems remotely, from any device, anywhere. IBM announced a series of products and offerings that it claims will enabling Internet scale availability;

IBM XIV system - A new and scalable disk storage system designed to handle diverse mix of information - from Web 2.0 to traditional applications such as financial services. According to IBM, this new enterprise disk offering features a grid-based architecture that offers easier management, greater performance scalability, self-tuning/healing and thin provisioning to help reduce the cost and complexity of information storage while enabling consistently quick access of data for today's dynamic range of workloads.

DS5000 - DS500 is a new disk storage system which can add interfaces, increase performance, grow capacity as Internet scale demands, and be reconfigured on-the-fly, according to the company.

IBM SVC - A new storage virtualization software that helps clients more efficiently manage and consolidate volumes of business data, providing clients with a storage solution designed to help improve utilization rates, energy efficiency, availability, and scalability of critical applications.

Scale Out File Services (SOFS) - As a means to support storage optimization, SOFS offers flexible storage virtualization services that will help alleviate data storage challenges by enabling quick implementation of clustered network attached storage systems.

IBM has also launched a series of products aimed at tackling data duplication and high energy costs that result out of it due to growing storage requirements.

These products are:

IBM ProtecTier - A new data de-duplication software and hardware from the Diligent Technologies acquisition in April, which may help clients reduce redundant data by a factor of up to 25:1

Onsite and Remote Data Protection - Through IBM's acquisition of Arsenal, Onsite and Remote Data Protection offerings will help clients retain and back-up copies of their critical data off-site, and ensure the continuous availability of e-mail and mission critical applications and data on site in the event of a disaster

TS3500 - A new high density tape storage library frame that can hold up to three-times more cartridges in a 10 square foot footprint, providing nearly twice the storage density of Sun, according to IBM.

DS8000 - An upgraded high end disk offering that adds more IBM mainframe storage functionality for customers dealing with large database growth in their mainframes. IBM claims the updated disk offering will also have RAID 6 protection - while delivering 50 percent more storage capacity in the same footprint with new, higher capacity, performance-optimized drives - allowing clients to keep data center costs and energy usage down.

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