How To Create Windows 8 USB Installer

Below are the easy steps to create a Windows 8 bootable USB Installer. You need at least 4 GB USB Flash Drive and Windows 8 Installer. If your Windows 8 installer is an .iso file downloaded from MSDN or somewhere, you may mount it using a virtual CD/DVD manager. I use Portable WinCDEmu to mount mine. 

1. Plugin the USB Drive and make sure you have backup its contents coz it will be wiped out.
2. Run Command Prompt with admin rights. From the Start menu search box, type cmd and press Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter.
3. Type DISKPART in the command prompt.
4. Type LIST DISK to list your disk number and take note of that number. In my case its Disk 2.

 

Issue the ff. commands at the DISKPART prompt one by one.
     SELECT DISK 2 (replace DISK 2 with your disk #)
     CLEAN
     CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
     SELECT PARTITION 1
     ACTIVE
     FORMAT FS=NTFS (this part may take some time)
     ASSIGN
     EXIT

5. Minimize the command prompt and load/mount your Windows 8 Installer
6. Restore/Maximize the command prompt.
7. Type D: and press enter (change D: with the drive letter of your Windows 8 Installer.)
8. Type CD Boot and press enter.
9. Type BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 F: and press enter. (change the F with your usb flash drive letter.)
10. Copy all the content of your Windows 8 Installer to the usb flash drive.

That's it! Now you can boot and install Windows 8 from your newly created usb flash installer.

Basic Linux Command Line Reference Guide

Basic Linux Command Line Reference Guide
A list of basic commands in linux command line to survive in day to day.

File/Directory Basics

• ls - List files
• cp - Copy files
• mv - Rename files
• rm - Delete files
• ln - Link files
• cd - Change directory
• pwd - Print current directory name
• mkdir - Create directory
• rmdir - Delete directory

File Viewing

• cat - View files
• less - Page through files
• head - View file beginning
• tail - View file ending
• nl - Number lines
• od - View binary data
• xxd - View binary data
• gv - View Postscript/PDF files
• xdvi - View TeX DVI files

File Creation and Editing

• emacs-  Text editor
• vim - Text editor
• umask - Set default file protections
• soffice - Edit Word/Excel/PowerPoint docs
• abiword - Edit Word documents
• gnumeric - Edit Excel documents

File Properties

• stat - Display file attributes
• wc - Count bytes/words/lines
• du - Measure disk usage
• file - Identify file types
• touch - Change file timestamps
• chown - Change file owner
• chgrp - Change file group
• chmod - Change file protections
• chattr - Change advanced file attributes
• lsattr - List advanced file attributes

File Location

• find - Locate files
• slocate - Locate files via index
• which - Locate commands
• whereis - Locate standard files

File Compression

• gzip - Compress files (GNU Zip)
• compress - Compress files (Unix)
• bzip2 - Compress files (BZip2)
• zip - Compress files (Windows Zip)

File Comparison

• diff - Compare files line by line
• comm - Compare sorted files
• cmp - Compare files byteby byte
• md5sum - Compute checksums

Disks and Filesystems

• df - Show free disk space
• mount - Make a disk accessible
• fsck - Check a disk for errors
• sync - Flush disk caches 

 Backups and Remote Storage

• mt - Control a tape drive
• dump - Back up a disk
• restore - Restore a dump
• tar - Read/write tape archives
• cdrecord - Burn a CD
• rsync - Mirror a set of files