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Saturday 21 November 2015

Installing Windows To MBR or GPT Drive Style - Easy Way!

Well, lately I have been pulling out hair trying to install Windows 7 and 10 to my new Lenovo G40 laptop. The issues was... 
"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk is of GPT style"

I alter the 'UEFI' settings, tweaking around the 'Legacy' in BIOS settings, but, did not help.

Then, I tried the easy way - Rufus. It is a USB Bootable maker.

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

It can be especially useful for cases where:
you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
you want to run a low-level utility

Now, creating USB Bootable for 'GPT style drives' using Rufus.

1. Download Rufus here
2. Run the tool
3. Once the tool is running, click on the 'Partition scheme and target system type' and choose 'GPT partition scheme for UEFI'

4. Choose other options

5. Click start and let it do the rest.

Let me know if it works for you.

Monday 24 March 2014

Use WhatsApp on PC or Mac


Please note, WhatsApp has no supported versions for PC or Mac, as it is a mobile platform messaging service. Although, we could still use WhatsApp on computers. The following steps shall guide you through.

Please follow the steps without fail, otherwise you may encounter some problems.

What You Need?

1. Bluestacks: It is an Android simulator, which could be installed on any PC or Mac. You can run and use almost any Android application using this software.

   

2. WhatsApp: You shall need to download the latest version of WhatsApp from the official website in .apk format, which is an Android application format. Or, you can just download WhatsApp later directly from Play Store, once you have Bluestacks running.


3. Contacts: Depending on you; you can either add contacts manually or by using some exported formats like .csv, which of course you cannot have, because you could have had that, why would you have to read this post. Isn't it?

How To Do?

1. Download Bluestacks for your computer, PC or Mac

2. Install it when the download completes

3. Then just follow the directions or instructions on the screen

4. Once installation is done, run Bluestacks and set it up

5. Now, navigate to the downloaded Whatsapp.apk and double click to install WhatsApp on  Bluestacks, or you can download WhatsApp from Play Store in Bluestacks

Et Voila!

Friday 7 February 2014