Installing XP with MassStorage(SATA/RAID) Drivers

My friend bought a brand new HP Compaq Presario V3000 laptop(came with FreeDOS) last weekend during PC Fair (III) Kuala Lumpur trip.

FreeDOS? How to use? My friend ask me a stupid question, he didn't know it came without Microsoft Windows OS. So I was suggest Ubuntu to him and he told me don't be crazy. Too bad! Another fellow not willing to try Linux

He hand over the laptop to me yesterday and I used to installed Ubuntu 7.10 and it work perfectly. Hey! Please do not said Linux don't have drivers anymore. Let's me tell you why?

After the fun, I have to continue with my task - install Windows XP. WTH? The Windows XP installation failed because lack of SATA /RAID drivers that couldn't found any hard disk. What to do? Solution - "Installing XP with MassStorage(SATA/RAID) Drivers", But i can't find HDD in XP Setup ? How?

Please follow the step by step as below:

1. download Intel Mass Storage(Intel 3600) from HP Compaq Presario driver page.

2. extract the 'SP32492.exe' in any other machine(it will go to c:\spsetup\SP32492 by default).

3. copy c:\spsetup\SP32492\*.* into your USB thumb drive.

4. attach your USB floppy drive into HP Compaq Presario V3000 laptop.

5. boot up from Windows XP installation disk.

6. look at bottom of the installation screen and hit F6 when it said F6 blah blah….

7. insert a floppy disk into external USB floppy drive, press "S" for supplier hardware device support disk. Select Intel 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller(iaStor.sys).

8. basically the Intel Mass Storage SATA/RAID drivers loaded.

9. Windows XP installation continue for now.

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi Review

Movie Review: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi;

Star Cast: SRK, Anushka sharma, Vinay Pathak, Kajol, Rani, Preity Zinta, Priyanka and Others;

Director: Aditya Chopra;

Rating: ****

Destiny plays a cruel joke on an extremely enthusiastic young girl Taani (Anushka) as she loses her fiancé and his family in a road accident on the eve of her marriage. Her father, a retired professor, on his death bed requests her to marry his old favorite student, Surinder Shahani (SRK). Taani obeys his last wish and thus begins the start of this extraordinary love story between an otherwise ordinary jodi.

The shy, somewhat geeky Surinder has already fallen for Taani since the first time he has seen her but alls his hopes crash when Taani tells him the day they arrive at his house that she won’t be able to give him any love as that’s one feeling she has lost forever with the sudden turn of events in her life. The rest of the film is about how Suri transforms himself into a very hep flirtatious dude Raj to win her love using a dancing school as a platform for his antics. He is well aided with his childhood buddy Bobby (Pathak) who brings on the physical transformation in him. But what happens is Taani who is unaware of Raj being Suri himself ends up falling in love with Raj. Suri is now again in a fix but then he finally decides to take a bold step

Rab Ne has been definitely amongst the most awaited films of 2008 and there have been great expectations riding on it especially because it is Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge maker Aditya Chopra’s comeback film after a long gap of 8 years. The script has its moments and master craftsman Adi keeps you engaged initially with some really beautifully handled moments between SRK and Anushka. But as SRK’s character’s transformation comes in the grip slowly loosens and you start feeling restless with the pace slumping down considerably. What follows is a criss-cross between some really well penned and executed scenes and some really drab moments with badly placed songs acting as speed breakers. But Adi’s terrific dialogues deserve a special applause for touching the right chords.

Shah Rukh Khan is simply superb as first the shy Suri and then the flamboyant, full of energy, Raj. Newcomer Anushka gets a really well etched character to perform and it despite being her first film, she comes across an absolute natural. Vinay Pathak is fun and provides good comic relief.

Music of the film is good but the problem is apart from a very well tuned and picturised Haule Haule number, the rest songs appear wrongly placed. The picturisation of the number featuring Kajol, Preity Zinta, Bipasha Basu, Lara Dutta and Rani is mind blowing but again it coming at a wrong juncture doesn’t really make it work.

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Installing MySQL on Windows XP

This tutorial will show you how to install MySQL 5.0.41 on machine running Windows XP.

To start with we will download all of the necessary applications which can be found at the following locations:

MySQL: MySQL download page

File to download: Windows (x86) ZIP/Setup.EXE

Create a folder on your desktop and place all downloaded files inside of it.

Now go the the C:\ drive and create a folder with a name webserver.
This will be the folder where all of our apache, php and mysql files will be kept. Inside of this create another folder: mysql.

Installing MySQL
Go to your desktop and inside the folder you have initially created find file mysql-5.0.41.win32.zip. Extract the content of this file to the same folder on the desktop. Now go inside mysql-5.0.41-win32 folder and double click Setup.exe. Follow the steps:

Fig. 18 - Click next.


Fig. 19 - Select Custom and click next.


Fig. 20 - Click Change button to change the path of the installation.


Fig. 21 - Navigate to C:\webserver\mysql and click OK, then click next.


Fig. 22 - Click Install to start installation.


Fig. 23 - During installation a new window will pop up introducing MySQL Enterprise. Simply click next twice to continue with your installation.


Fig. 24 - Your installation is finished. You are now ready to configure your MySQL Server. Click Finish to start configuration.

MySQL Configuration

Fig. 25 - On the first screen click next.


Fig. 26 - Select Detailed Configuration and click next.


Fig. 27 - Select Developer Machine and click next.


Fig. 28 - Select Multifunctional Database and click next.


Fig. 29 - Leave everything as default and click next.


Fig. 30 - Select Decision Support (DSS)/OLAP and click next.


Fig. 31 - Leave two options checked and port number as 3306 and click next.


Fig. 32 - Select Standard character Set and click next.


Fig. 33 - Select Include Bin Directory in Windows PATH and leave other options as default. Click next.


Fig. 34 - Tick Modify Security Settings and type in a password you want to use to access MySQL server, then click next.


Fig. 35 - Click Execute to apply configuration settings.


Fig. 36 - Click Finish to exit configuration wizard.

The last thing you need to do is to open php.ini file located in C:\webserver\php and uncomment the line extension=php_mysql.dll by removing semicolon ; at the beginning. Save the file and close it. Restart the computer.

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