How to Create Windows boot disk using USB Stick

There are some situations when you need to create a boot disk using your removable disk like pen drive because we would not have CD/DVD player in our system/Laptop or we don’t want to buy a CD/DVD disk for single instead we can use our USB drive.

Here we will see how to create a Boot disk using an ISO image file

1. Download isotousb_setup.exe utility from here

2. Install the software and open it

3. Now you need to select the ISO file from your computer and select USB drive which you want to convert to boot disk

4. As highlighted above you need to select source ISO file, drive of USB disk, file system and check “Bootable, only supports Windows bootable ISO image” check box

5. Now click “Burn” button to make your boot disk wait till it completes 100% and remove the disk from your computer

6. Your boot disk is ready for use and insert it into your destination computer and power on it

7. It will automatically ask you to boot from USB drive and start installing operating system

There are so many boot disk creator software available online and you can use anyone which is convenient for you and i used this ISO to USB utility which is simple and robust.

File sharing between windows host and VMware windows system.

When we are working as a SAP Basis administrator or system administrator we need to install some software components in to VMware virtual machine.

So that time we need to copy those files to VMware machine and start installing where we have the file in our original host machine and it’s a time consuming process to do so.

instead we can share the folder/file which we required in our virtual work station and here I am using windows 7 machines as host system and windows 2003 server as VMware virtual machine.

Make sure you have installed VMware tools in your virtual machine before you share any files with your virtual system

Follow the below steps to do it.

1. Go to VMware and click VM then settings option

2. Now go to options tab in the settings screen

3. Select shared folders and click “always enabled” option right side of the window and check “Map as a network drive in Windows guests” right below

4. Now you need to add sharing file link which you need to access from VMware virtual machine

In the same screen click “Add” button àclick “Next” and select the folder/file which you wish to access it and click “Next” button

5. Click the “Enable this share” and “Read only” check boxes in the next screen and then click finsh button

6. Now you can see the folder link is added from your host machine to virtual machine

7. Now click “OK” button in the screen and check your virtual machine My computer where your shared folder is added as a shared network drive

8. Here you no need to restart your virtual machine to take effect and now enjoy directly accessing your required host files from your virtual machine instead copying it

Disable Windows Server Shutdown event tracker

One of the major frustrations faced by windows server admins/users is windows server shutdown event tracker while they shutdown/restart the server.

Every time you need enter comments why the system required restart/shutdown etc.

Option will be like below shown in the image.

Here how you have to disable this option

This option is enabled mostly in windows server edition and other windows 7, windows 8 or windows XP in “not configured” or “disabled” state.

1. Goto RUN and enter command “gpedit.msc” and hit enter and You will get a popup window i.e group policy editor

2. Select Administrative Templates and click System option and you will get below screen

3. In the right side you can see an option called “Display Shutdown Event Tracker” and right click and goto properties option

4. Here you need to set the option as “Disabled” and click OK button or Apply

5. That’s it you have done it and now after it will not ask you to enter comments when you are trying to shutdown/restart your machine.

6. Same way you can enable this option if you required in your windows systems.