Coding Box

I ran across a situation where after doing a repair on Windows XP, the system thought the OS had not been activated and that my 30-day grace period was up. In addition, whenever I would click 'yes' I do want to go ahead and activate, the system would reboot itself. It is also not possible to activate from safe mode. I have read that this is something of a common problem with SP3. It turns out that Microsoft has created an application for system administrators and PC makers that allows you to put the system into a 'factory mode'. The result is that you have an unactivated OS with a 30-day grace period to activate again. The tool is called SysPrep which you can download with a set of tools provided in a cab file from Microsoft. Here are the steps to follow: 1.) Boot into safe mode with the command prompt option. 2.) Run 'explorer'. 3.) Export the files from the cab file into some location via 'My Computer'. 4.) Run the sysprep executable. 5.) Choo

Here I will describe a process that will allow you to recover deleted files from an jailbroken iPhone hard drive. If you do not know what jailbroken means, your device most likely does not fall into this category. This method should also work with virtually any *nix based distribution as well. I will split this up into two parts: create disk image and analyze disk image. You will also find a list of my resources at the end. I suggest reading completely through each section before attempting it. Do not be intimidated by the length of this post. I have tried to provide a lot of information, but this operation boils down to using only 2 commands. CREATE DISK IMAGE The instant you realize that you need to recover a deleted file, stop using the device immediately. The more you continue to use the device, the higher the chance that the files you need will be overwritten. The first thing we need to do is to make a copy of the data on the device's hard drive. The technique we