Bootable USB

Install Windows Vista from Bootable USB Flash Memory Drive

You can even install Windows Vista with USB 2.0 flash memory drive now. All you need is a high speed 4GB flash memory only to create a bootable Windows Vista on flash memory drive.

It sounds a bit rare to hear people install Windows Vista on Flash Memory. Actually, the concept is simple by using flash memory drive to act as the Windows Vista installation DVD disk only. But installing Windows Vista from a high speed USB flash drive perhaps is the easiest & fastest way to complete a Windows Vista install which nowadays every computer or laptop have a USB drive. Meanwhile, these is much faster than using a DVD, gigabit Ethernet, or possibly even some external USB 2.0 hard drives, due to differences in access speed & transfer rate. So below the step to create a bootable windows vista on flash memory drive

Create a bootable Windows Vista on Flash Memory

Guide 1

1. Format the USB flash memory drive to FAT32 files system

Run CMD.EXE and type the following command. Note: This set of commands assumes that the USB flash drive is addressed as “disk 1″. Double check that by doing a list of the disks (type “list disk”) before cleaning it).

diskpart

select disk 1

clean

create partition primary

select partition 1

active

format fs=fat32

assign

exit

2. Copy Windows Vista’s DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

Type in command to start copying all the content from the Windows Vista DVD to your newly formatted high speed flash drive.

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\

3. Setup your computer BIOS to boot from USB Drive

4. Install Windows Vista from flash memory drive

After finish the above step. you can  try to view how fast the installation of windows vista can be completed. Let us know how you feel if whether installing windows vista on flash memory drive compare the installation window vista on DVD media.

Guide 2

Bootable USB guide2, here we assume that you are using either Vista or Windows 7 (NOT XP) to create a bootable USB.

1. Insert your USB (4GB+ preferable) stick to the system and backup all the data from the USB as we are going to format the USB to make it as bootable.

2. Open elevated Command Prompt. To do this, type in CMD in Start menu search field and hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter. Alternatively, navigate to Start > All programs >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator.

3. When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command:
DISKPART and hit enter.
LIST DISK and hit enter.
Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive. In the below image my USB drive disk no is Disk 1.

4. In this step you need to enter all the below commands one by one and hit enter. As these commands are self explanatory, you can easily guess what these commands do.

SELECT DISK 1 (Replace DISK 1 with your disk number)
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY
SELECT PARTITION 1
ACTIVE
FORMAT FS=NTFS
(Format process may take a while)
ASSIGN
EXIT

Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it.

5. Insert your Windows DVD in the optical drive and note down the drive letter of the optical drive and USB media. Here I use “D” as my optical (DVD) drive letter and “H” as my USB drive letter.

6. Go back to command prompt and execute the following commands:

D:CD BOOT and hit enter. Where “D” is your DVD drive letter.

BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: and hit enter
(Where “H” is your USB drive letter)

7. And just copy Windows DVD contents to USB.

You are done with your bootable USB. You can now use this bootable USB as bootable DVD on any computer that comes with USB boot feature (most of the current motherboards support this feature). you have to  be sure that in BIOS, where you can select boot priority, the first on the list is USB.

Note that this bootable USB guide will not work if you are trying to make a bootable USB on XP computer.

WHAT GOD OWES US

Walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him.

Colossians 1:10

Read: Colosssians 1:9-14

• Exodus 4-6
• Matthew 14:22-36

A story is told about a vendor  who sold bagels for 50 cents each at a  street corner food stand. A jogger ran past and threw a couple of quarters into the bucket but didn't take a bagel. He did the same thing everyday for months. One day, as the jogger was passing by, the vendor stopped him. The jogger asked, "You probably want to know why I always put money in but never take a bagel, don't you?" "No," said the vendor. "I just wanted to tell you that the bagels have gone up to 60 cents."

     Too often, as believers, we treat God with that same kind of attitude. Not only are we ungrateful for what He's given us--but we want more. somehow we feel that God owes us good health, a comfortable life, material blessings. Of course, God doesn't owe us anything, yet He gives us everything.

     G.K. Chesterton wrote, "Her dies another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands, and the great world round me. And  with tomorrow begins another. Why am I allowed two?" The psalmist said, "This is the day the LORD has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" (Ps. 118:24).

     Each day, whether good or bad, is one more gift from our God. Our grateful response should be to live to please Him. --Cindy Hess Kasper

Living for Jesus a life that is true, Striving to please Him in all that I do;

Yielding allegiance, glad-hearted and free, This is the pathway of blessing 

for me.--Chisholm

Life is a gift from God to be lived for God.

Spiritual Famine

I will send a famine on the land, not a famine of bread,

nor a thirst for water, but of

hearing the words of the LORD.

-- Amos 8:11

Read: 1 Peter 2:1-10

• Exodus 1-3
• Matthew 14:1-21

In the novel No Blade of Grass,  a destructive virus attacks the grasses of the world. Not just the grass in lawns but all grasses, including wheat, barley, rye oats, and rice. In a matter of months, the world is plunged into famine and its brutal companion, violence. People begin by fighting, then killing, for food.
     The novel depicts a scene that has been lived out in the real world in recent famines and is terrifying when seen on TV news networks. Yet I can only imagine what it's like.
     The prophet Amos spoke of a different kind of famine. He called it a famine of "hearing the words of the LORD" (8:11). While a lack of food can lead to disease and death, a famine of the Word  can produce eternal consequences. Without access to God's Word, we lack wisdom for life and the message of eternal life in Christ. As Christians, we need "the pure milk of the Word, that [we] may grow thereby" (1 Peter 2:2). We can identify with the prophet when he said, "Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart" (Jer. 15:16).
     The world is starving for the knowledge of God who can  satisfy the needs of the human heart. Let's help fill their hearts by sharing His Word. -- Bill Crowder

Give us, O Lord, a strong desire to look in your Word each day;

Help us to hide its truths in our heart, Lest from His path our feet would

stray. --Bosch

Without a heart for God, we cannot hear His Word.

FOREVER PERFECT

By one offering He has perfected  forever

Those who are being sanctified.

--Hebrews 10:14

Read: Hebrews 10:8-18

• Genesis 49-50
• Matthew 13:31-58

          When I first heard of Sara Lee cakes, the name-brand caught my attention because on of the most common Asian family names is "Lee." Being a Chinese Lee myself, I wonder if Sara was Chinese or Korean.

         Then I learned that Charlie Lubin, an American bakery entrepreneur, had named his cheesecakes after his Daughter Sara Lee. Sara said her father wanted this product to be "perfect sanctified" (10:14).

          Perfection is a standard that none of us could ever hope to attain. Yet we learn from Hebrews that Jesus, through His one supreme sacrifice for our sins, "has perfected us forever those who are being sanctified" (10"14).

         The continual sacrifices made by the priests since the time of Moses could never change anyone's sinful standing before God (Heb.10:1-4). But the one-time sacrifice of Christ on the cross--the  sinless One dying for the sinful-perfected us forever in the eyes of God. Jesus' once-for-all payment for our sins was sufficient. The writer to the Hebrews paraphrased Jeremiah 31:34, "their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more" Heb. 10:17).

         We are perfected to stand before God because of the perfect work accomplished by Jesus on the cross. This is the assurance of salvation. --Albert Lee

We're far from perfection, yet  perfect forever, For Christ is our righteousness, 

Lord, and our Savior; No justification for sin can we offer, Yet sanctified fully,

we're now His forever. --Lee

God is the perfect Judge, and He can declare the guilty perfect.

          

Verizon to sell $200 Droid RAZR, 16GB microSD card not included this time

By Chris Barylick 

The question of the day: is a 16GB microSD card worth $100? Verizon Wireless said it will sell the Droid RAZR for $200 with a two-year contract -- a $100 discount off the original price, but one that forces you to give up that complimentary 16GB microSD card. Otherwise, you'll find the same 'ol spes, including a 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 CPU, 16GB of internal storage, a 4.3-inch AMOLED display and LTE connectivity. The microSD slot itself will be perfectly operational and accept up to 32GB in storage, provided you bring your own card. Expect this price to go into effect next week on January 23rd. Or, you know, spend $300 after all, but on that other RAZR with 32GB of storage and 21 hours of talk time.

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Forgetting God

He who received seed on the good ground

is he who hears the Word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit. 

-- Matthew 13:23

Read: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

• Genesis 46-48
• Matthew 13:1-30

         An insightful scholar by the name of A.J. Heschel recounts a story from his days as a student in Berlin. Although he was a devout man, he became so preoccupied by the arts in that glittering culture that one day he failed to pray at sunset, as his custom had been without fail. He admits, "The sun had gone down, evening had arrived.....I had forgotten God."

   

        Heschel's life omission may seem minor to us, but his zeal shows that he understand the importance of cultivating the spiritual life.

         Jesus told a story of a sower, a seed,and four kinds of soil (Matt. 13:1-9). The soil among the thorns represented those who permit the Word of God in their hearts to be choked by the cares and pleasures of the alluring world (vv. 7, 22).

         That's a dangerous possibility for anyone who thoughtlessly responds to God's Word. The world may induce a forgetfulness of spiritual reality and responsibility.

         Do we allow the attractions of this world to keep us from reading and meditating on God's Word? Prayerfully, let us strive to be like the one who "hears the Word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces" (v.23).

         when the sun sets tonight, let it not be said that we have forgotten God. -- Vernon Grounds

Take time to be holy, Speak oft with thy Lord;

Abide in Him always and feed on His Word.

--Longstaff

Prayer and obedience to God will cultivate the soil of a hard heart.

     

You and Your Possessions

It is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

-- Matthew 19:23

Read: Matthew 19:16-26

• Genesis 43-45
• Matthew 12:24-50

     Six armed gunmen broke into the deposit boxes in a London bank and stole valuables worth more than $7 million. one woman, whose jewelry was appraised at $ 500,00, wailed, "Everything I had was in there. My whole life was in that box."

     Some people have taken foolish risks to cling to their riches. they have died rushing into burning houses or were killed because they stubbornly resisted armed robbers. Apparently they felt that without their material possessions life would not be worthwhile. Others, when they lose their wealth, slit into despair, even to the point of suicide.

     The greatest danger in becoming too closely identified with our possessions lies in the spiritual area of life. an unhealthy attachment to material things can keep an unsaved person from turning to Christ and prevent a believer from living for Him. The story of the rich young ruler forcefully illustrates this truth. Jesus' words "You cannot serve God and [money]" (Matt. 6:24) certainly apply to us all.

     Keep a wide gulf between yourself and your possessions. It will spare you many heartaches. If you are not believer in Christ,  don't make the mistakes of the rich young ruler. It will cost you your soul. -- Herb Vander Lugt

The riches of this world are vain, They vanish in a day;

But sweet the treasures of God's love -- They never pass away!

--Bosch

To be rich in  God is better than to be rich in goods!