Create A Partition In Windows 7

Similarly to Windows Vista, Windows 7 has a built in utility to partition a hard drive.

Many people like to partition their hard drive for multiple reasons. To boot from a different OS ( This isn’t necessary any more if you have Windows 7 Ultimate, which supports booting from a VHD, see here ) or to help you manage where you store files and programs etc…. particularly if you have a large hard drive.

1. Go to Start -> Right Click My Computer -> Manage
2. You will then be brought to the Computer Management Program
3. Click on the Storage bar and under it click on Disk Management
4. Then select the Drive you want to partition, In this example I will select the Drive D: “Vista”
5. Now right click on the drive and select Shrink Volume
6. You will then be presented with a Window showing you the Size of the Hard drive and the total amount available to Shrink. Since my hard drive is quite full I have a smaller amount available to Shrink.Enter in the amount you would like to shrink ( This will be the size of the new partition ) It can’t be more than the amount available to you and remember that Approx 1000 Mb = 1 GB
7. After you have entered your values, click shrink and let it do it’s thing. Depending on the size of the drive and amount to shrink this could take a while. Just be patient and once it’s done you will see an unallocated space which is the size you just shrunk the volume by. Select it and right click and then select New Simple Volume
8. Follow the Wizard that appears and fill in the Size of the Partition, Generally the size you just shrunk the drive by.
9. Assign a drive letter, Pick one of your choice it doesn’t make a difference
10. Then on the Format page, Ensure NTFS is selected and then Enter a name for your Drive – ie. “Music” and click next followed by finish

Install Windows XP using USB Flash Disk

This works if your CD/DVD ROM is not working properly for booting the disk.


At first download the software name Win to Flash . It does not need the installation. After running the setup file the following screen will appear.

Now the exact bootable copy will be made in the USB Flash drive.

You can now install Windows XP from Flash drive. You can also manually build your USB flash drive enabled for installing XP in it.

I shall describe the process how to make the USB drive ready to install XP in your computer step by step.

Requirements:

1. At first you have to get a USB flash drive/disk(at least 1 GB).

2. XP_FROM_USB.rar from the given link below:

Download link

Update: You should have XP installed computer for this process.

The procedure

1. Extract the XP_FROM_USB.rar archive in a folder named Softslas(Say) in C: drive. Now navigate to C:SoftslasPeToUSB and double-click on the peToUSB.exe.

The appearing window will be like this:

Set the following values:

• select “USB Removable as Destination Drive”.
• select “Enable Disk Format”.
• select “Quick Format”.
• select “Enable LBA (FAT 16x)”.

Finally, put  XP-Softslas (or whatever you want) as Drive Label and click Start.

A message appears and click Yes.

Another message box will again appear and click Yes.

Immediate after that the USB disk will be formatted. Wait for few seconds and then click on “Ok” and “Close”.

3. Open the windows Command prompt by typing cmd at the Run box. The cmd.exe console appears.

Now type the following syntax and hit the Enter button from your keyboard.

cd c:softslasbootsect

Again, type the following command and press “Enter”.

bootsect /nt52 I: 

Type “cd..” and press “Enter” and also type cd usb_prep8 and press Enter.

Now type usb_prep8 and press “Enter”.

4. Press any key to continue.

Now the command prompt window will look like this.

Prepares Windows XP LocalSource for Copy to USB-Drive:
0) Change Type of USB-Drive, currently [USB-stick]
1) Change XP Setup Source Path, currently []
2) Change Virtual TempDrive, currently [T:]
3) Change Target USB-Drive Letter, currently []
4) Make New Tempimage with XP LocalSource and Copy to USB-Drive
5) Use Existing Tempimage with XP LocalSource and Copy to USB-Drive
F) Change Log File – Simple OR Extended, currently [Simple]
Q) Quit
Enter your choice:_

Insert the XP installation CD in you CD/DVD ROM and in command prompt window, type 1 and press “Enter”. A “Browse For Folder” window will appear and here select the CD/DVD drive and then click OK.

Similarly, for the choice field enter 2 and if there assigned the letter “T” for your computer then change it otherwise do not alter it. After typing 2 in the choice option it will prompt “Enter Available Virtual Drive Letter”.

Here, type a letter that is not any drive letter of your computer.

Let us say S is not a drive letter in your computer. So put S then press “Enter”.
Now it will get back to the Command prompt and then type 3 where it prompts for the choice. Then it will prompt “Please give Target USB-Drive Letter e.g type U”.

Now, put your USB drive letter and press “Enter”. Here, my USB drive label is “I” so I put “I”.

Again,  input 4 and press Enter. It creates the new temporary image  and makes a copy of it to the USB Flash Drive .
Please wait for a few seconds..

A warning message will appear like this:

“WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE T: WILL BE LOST! Proceed with Format (Y/N)?”

Type Y and press “Enter”.

Please wait………..

After completing Format it will prompt “Press any key to continue” and to continue  hit any key .

Please wait………..

It will again prompt “Press any key to continue” and obviously press any key to continue.

5. Now a message box will appear showing

“Copy TempDrive Files to USB-Drive in about 15 minutes = Yes OR STOP = End Program = No”

Click “Yes”.

Now after this a message box will appear showing “Would you like USB-stick to be preferred Boot Drive U……………….”

Click “Yes”.

The next one asking “Would you like to unmount the Virtual Drive ?”

Click “Yes”.

Now wait some time and press any key…………….

Press any key again to close usb_prep8.

Now your USB you can Install Windows XP from the USB drive.

6. Insert your USB drive in the USB port and Reboot your computer. When starts the computer enter in the BIOS Setup and set the first boot preference as USB Hard Disk.Now Save and Exit from the BIOS Setup. Your computer will again restart and the following screen will appear.

Now Chose The TXT Mode Setup.After completing the partition, formatting and copying file the computer will restart again.

Now chose the GUI Mode Setup Option.

Wait for completing your installation.

I think this will help you to install XP from USB flash disk/drive especially in those computer without CD/DVD-ROM.

Thanks Cahya.

Unable to format my pendrive

method 1:

1. right click on my computer select manage.
2. select disk management from left tree structure under storage.
3. right click on the drive and select format .(check quick format )
4. click on ok

connect to a shared drive error ."The network folder specified is currently mapped using a different user name and password",

the simple solution for this problem

1. open comment prompt.
2. type net use /delete \\MyServer\MyShare 

example: 


net use /delete \\10.95.26.26\d




restart the system and try to connect the shared drive.

.exe opens in vlc or .exe file asked openwith

 file associate fix

Unable to open the file  .audiocd , avi  ,bat , bmp ,chm ,cmd ,com ,dvr-ms ,exe ,gif ,htm ,html ,ico ,inf ,jpe jpeg ,jpg ,js ,lnk ,mp3, mpe, mpg ,msc, mpeg, reg ,scr, tif ,tiff, txt ,vbs, wma, wmv ,wsf, xml ,xps, zip, Folder, Directory, Drive



The file associate problem can be fixed using the following registery files

open the zip file and double click on the registery file and restart the system.
( file associate  fixes for vista)

audiocd	avi	bat	bmp	chm	cmd	com
dvr-ms	exe	gif	htm	html	ico	inf
jpe	jpeg	jpg	js	lnk	mp3	mpe
mpg	msc	mpeg	reg	scr	tif	tiff
txt	vbs	wma	wmv	wsf	xml	xps
zip	Folder	Directory	Drive

( file associate  fixes for windows 7)

AVI	ICO	REG
BAT	IMG	SCR
BMP	INF	TIF/TIFF
CHM	JPE/JPEG/JPG	TXT
CMD	JS	VBS
COM	LNK	WMA
EXE	MP3	WMV
GIF	MPE/MPEG/MPG	XML
HTM/HTML	MSC	ZIP
Directory	Drive	Folder

source:  http://www.winhelponline.com