Tuesday, December 20, 2011

ISO to Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive

!±8± ISO to Backup and Restore Your Hard Drive

Do you ever calculate the times you have performed operating systems installations? Well, personally, I cannot remember the actual times I have installed Windows for both work and personal. Let me give some rough figures.

Windows 3.11 - 5 times

Windows 95 - 5 times

Windows 98 - 50 times

Windows Me - 5 times

Windows 2000 - 5 times

Linux Red Hat - 3 times

Windows XP Pro - 100 times

Windows Server 2003 - 3 times

Windows Vista - 8 times

Honestly, I never enjoy going through the process of installing any of the operating systems. For those who know me, I will most probably be looking at the progress bar during the installation as if I am very interested. However, I am actually very frustrated and hoping that the progress bar could go as fast as it could be.

Attended Installation

Well, some of you may know that the normal installation through the OS CD or DVD (such as looking at the progress bar and clicking several next buttons) is called attended installation and it is possible that you create your own unattended installation using deployment tools. However, I will not be covering the Windows unattended installation.

Unattended Installation

Most companies use Imaging (ISO) to create a duplicate copy of installed operating system so that they can easily install the exact copy of operating system with their corporate settings to every new machine by extracting the ISO.

ISO Images

- ISO is an archive or a duplicate or backup copy of whatever files that you wish to store

In other words, I create ISO images to backup my entire operating system hard drive data.

Hiren BooCD and Norton Ghost to create ISOs

I use Hiren BootCD, the all in one Dos Bootable CD. One of the software included is Norton Ghost, which can be used to create hard disk images known as ISOs.

ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a Windows program and it's free. You can install it and create ISO images or burn the images into CDs and DVDs.

ImgBurn VS Hiren BootCD

The difference between the two is that ImgBurn needs to be installed as a Windows program and undeniably, a good and easy tool to create ISO images. However, if your hard disk is corrupted, you won't be able to use ImgBurn unless you have dual booting. Thus, you need to use HirenBootCD and Norton Ghost to extract your ISO images to the corrupted hard disk.

The Idea

Simple:

1. Complete an attended installation or manual installation from CD or DVD on one machine

2. Install all the necessary programs that you need such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat Reader and the likes

3. Perform operating system updates

After performing the steps above, boot your computer from Hiren BootCD and you will come to a screen for you to select the types of software that are bundled. Choose Norton Ghost from the list and from there, you can create an image out of your partition drive.

The ISO file can be stored in your hard disk for easy access but not in the same drive where you install your operating system. If your computer fails to load or startup properly, you can then pop in Hiren BootCD, boot from the CD and restore the ISO file.

The Practice

My own practice is to have at least two partitions, namely C and D.

- C drive will be the drive where I install my operating system and programs

- D drive will be my document drive

- A copy of ISO created from the C drive will be kept in D drive

Benefit

When operating system is corrupted, none of my document files will be affected when I extract ISO into the C drive. Extracting ISO to C drive will overwrite every data in C drive without any warning. However, after extracting the ISO, you will get the same settings and operating system as of the time when you create the ISO.

What's more? You do not have to go through the process of keying the product key, selecting the time zone, installing the drivers and commonly used programs.


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Friday, December 2, 2011

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Video Editing For Newbies

!±8± Video Editing For Newbies

Who would not dream of creating a blockbuster movie? Well, thanks to contemporary technology, even home-buddies can create interesting film recordings and movies. Perhaps you're already used camcorders, right? There are an abundance of gadgets out in the marketplace that permits you to capture special occurrences or scenes on video. If you try to look at the raw video, you will simply see some flaws. This is where video editing arrives. With the application of quality editing software, you can remove the flaws and enjoy quality film footage or movies jointly with your family.

Here are some of the matters that you will need aside from the software and video recording gadget mentioned above C capture card, a computer with large warehouse space, a video camera or video recorder or just your computer monitor to observe the final video.

The process of video editing is simple. With your capture card, transfer the video from the camera or any other video gadget to the computer. Edit the raw recording using quality software. Remove unnecessary areas which make the video boring and too lengthy and add some effects. Following on from the final touches, you can download the video or movie and burn (VCD, CD, and DVD) or tape it.

Computers play an imperative role in video editing. Previous its invention, editing film footage takes a long while and it can only be achieved by the pros. Now, you will require at minimum a Pentium 2 300 or a much more speedily version and a 256-512 Megs (RAM). Video editing consumes a great deal of space so it would be advisable to get a drive of 30GB and divide it into two separate partitions. Drive C should have in any case 10GB and this is where you will store the editing software. Video, audio, and other editing projects can be stored in drive D. Don't forget to get a 32 Meg AGP graphics card; if you get the 16 and lower Meg, you will not produce quality video materials.

The storage case of video files is often confusing and it depends on the personal doing the editing jobs. For people who wish to create DVDs, large storage case space is required. A 4.7 GB single sided DVD can only store two hours of movie or video. DV footage needs even more space since a video that lasts for an hour may take up about 13GB; so for just two hours, you should have 26GB and of course, extra footage needs additional memory space so you might as well use 39GB space. That's not all. If you're planning to add other alternatives like MPEG2 and graphics, you ought to make it about 50GB.

Before you begin with any video editing task, make sure that you have adequate storage case space in your computer.

The capture cards are, in addition widely available and some of it is these that are the Matrox, Pinnacle, ADS, Dazzle, Digital Origin, and Canopus. The cards use software or hardware compression. The video is then digitized to your computer's hard drive. This will permit you to edit the video and play it back many times. MP3 converters can add music to your videos so try to get an MP3 Encoder as well.

Find the best video editing software so that you will now be able to start creating memories for your friends and family. There are lots of software programs out there; make certain that you decide the correct one.


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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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Friday, October 21, 2011

Tascam BD-R2000 HDD/Blu-Ray/DVD Recorder

!±8±Tascam BD-R2000 HDD/Blu-Ray/DVD Recorder

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The BD-R2000 captures standard or high-definition video to hard drive, SD card, DVD or Blu-ray™ media – with authoring and editing features to make the perfect disc. The multi-format recorder can store video on the hard drive, perform simple edits then author a disc menu before burning to standard DVD-Video or Blu-ray format. It supports video input from DV/HDV cameras (4-pin FireWire) and S-Video, or video files stored to USB 2.0 or SD/SDHC card. With support for several video, audio and still image formats, the BD-R2000 is an ideal fit for schools, house of worship, boardroom and other high-end installations. The disc authoring system of the BD-R2000 improves on the shortcomings of competing disc-recording systems. Disc playback is seamless, avoiding the pause between scenes often encountered on other solutions. Scenes can be trimmed, separated and arranged on a menu before committing to a blank disc. One-touch dubbing allows an entire DVD or Blu-ray disc, USB drive or SD/SDHC card to be stored on the hard drive, then burned to Blu-ray disc at up to 32x speed. With so many storage formats to choose from, TASCAM's BD-R2000 is the ultimate video recorder.

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Reliable BDZ-S77 Blu-Ray Recorder by Sony

!±8± Reliable BDZ-S77 Blu-Ray Recorder by Sony

Blu-ray disk format is the extended next version of the optical disk format. The main idea behind the blu-ray format was to develop a format that could rewrite, playback and record HD video with large capacity to hold the data. Blu-ray disk can hold data greater than 5 times than that of the DVD (Digital Versatile Disk). 25GB of data can be held by the single layer and 50GB data by dual layer blu-ray disk.

Blu-ray format also provides support to the multi layered disks therefore this disk format can be extended easily. And the recording capacity can be enhanced by the addition of layer to the blu-ray disks. High definition video of more than nine hours and standard definition video of about twenty three hours can be recorded on disk of 50GB.

If we take a look at the specification of the blu-ray disk, 36MB/sec is defined as speed of 1x. Blu-ray has the adopted larger NA (numerical aperture) that is why it has potential to increase and hence achieve higher speeds. The meaning of large value of NA is that the blu-ray requires less power for recording and lower speed of the disk rotation than the HD-DVD & DVD to achieve similar data speed.

The Sony's BDZ-S77 blu-ray recorder has BS digital T.V tuner. This tuner is built-in and helps the recorder to record programs of 2 hours in both 720p & 1080i. The potential abilities of projectors and plasma panels remain unused due to the DVD video format's limitations of frame size. The DVD disk's frame size is limited by capacity and bit rate of the Digital Versatile Video Disk. Blu-ray media is the base of the Sony BDZ-S77 recorder that is developed to bring HD experience to the consumer houses and to increase the numbers of consumers. For digital satellite T.V, the Sony blu-ray recorder has built-in broadcasting satellite tuner (BS). Besides the two hours video of high quality, the user can also record from satellite broadcasting the AAC 5.1 MPEG-2 sound. Single layered blu-ray DVD disk can contain data of 25GB.

If we compare the blu-ray format with the DVD video media, the difference among them is the laser type. Blue laser (405nm wavelength) is used by blu-ray format and red laser by the media of DVD video. The aperture of lens is 0.85 and 36 MB/s is the bit rate (service data included). The diameter of the blu-ray disk is 120mm which is equal to that of DVD & CD. The thickness of disk is 1.2mm and 0.1mm protective layer. Phase transition is the recording mechanism. The high processing, reading speed and capacity enables the data speed to reach up to 36MB/sec on disk (single layer) at reading speed of 1x. In signal recording of satellite T.V in High Definition T.V standard, it can hold video (1024i) of approx. two hours. In the absence of multi-channel sound and lower bit rates, a single blu-ray disk can house six or twelve hours in modes of LR and SR.

The Sony blu-ray player supports the reading of DVD-RW DVD-Video DVD-R CD-RW CD-R and CD. The reduction technology of block and frame noise helps to obtain image of high quality. This technology analyzes the image and adjusts to it dynamically. Good enough image makes the system to do little work. Dual Motion Adaptive Interlaced Picture Converter DMAIPC mechanism detects the interlacing automatically both from BS input (analog) and in recording. If necessary, it helps to convert it to progressive scanning. The front panel of the Sony BDZ-S77 blu-ray recorder goes down smoothly and reveals the controls and tray.

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

DVD Recorder

!±8± DVD Recorder

Before the advent of the DVD recorder all manner of recording was done only by professional audio engineers. Today recording can be done very simply at home by any lay person. While DVD players can only play the disc, the DVD recorders as the name indicates can, not only play audio and video discs, it can also record movies and songs. One can therefore put it to greater use.

DVD Recorders have been specially designed to make the procedure of recording easy and also of exceptional quality. DVD recorders can record both DVDs and VHS tapes. The reason for the outstanding quality in the images is due to the progressive scan feature. The different audio formats found in these recorders are MP3, WMA and JPEG.

Most of these devices measure about 43 x 28 x 8cm in width, depth and height and weigh only about 3 kilograms. The early DVD reorders were designed to be rather big but nowadays they are getting to be smaller and sleeker. Some recorders can also be upgraded. This is good news because there is no fear that the features will become outdated. It is called the upgradeable firmware. For the careful customer who is anxious to protect his gadget there is even a password to lock it against prying fingers.

The stereo audio technology enhances the sound system. It is the pictbridge compatibility which makes it rather special. Most of these devices offer a 500GB HDD storage capacity. The essential connectors embedded into the system include coaxial digital output, digital DVB-T tuner and tray. The PAL and SECAM are the two reception systems found in most recorders. What makes DVD recorders especially handy for home use is that it has some features including the digital clock, thirty two events timer, progressive line, playback cum recording and high speed USB interface.

The hard disk drive can store memory up to 160GB with an ability to store both audio and video files. There is a facility to reduce the noise while recording and to have up scaling. About 1420 hours of recording is possible. The synchro start and high speed dubbing are other useful features for effective recording. A 50/60 Hz frequency and AC 230V is found in most devices. Some of these gadgets offer both the Dolby digital output as well as the DTS digital output.


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