Times when MS command prompt comes to rescue
Open source free software supporter is who I am.On behalf of that thought every chance I get I try to persuade someone to use the free software alternative if present.Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't.Even then I totally love the way windows7 or xp works in my old computers when the unity fan ubuntu or anyone from the gnome family try to make my computer look oldish..(Oldish--Is that even a word!!) and compels me to look for XFCE or LXDE or E17 ..etc alternatives.
So as I was trying out the the distro named Linpus lite desktop 1.7 version on my USB and after trying many time it still did not boot from the usb(Yes,This have a very bad reputation on booting from usb).So I thought I may try the other chineese OS linux deepin from USB.But this time there was a different problem USB wouldn't mount because of not being able to read the superblock it says.So I tried doing almost every thing that the different forums told me to but it still couldn't do the needy and it showed this "Giving up".
So I thought I might format it using windows on my other computer but even in windows it was taking lot of time to read it though it was being listed in the MyComputer(I was partly happy as a small hope appeared out of nowwhere--And its still not DEAD).But windows was taking unusual amount of time to read the usb drive attached.Seeing this I closed the GUI showing the MyComputer and run the command prompt.
From my past experience from linux terminal I naturally didn't expect much from the MS command prompt.Even then I gave it a try .So I sat there for an hour doing things in the ways exactly as mentioned in the forums of windows
and Guess What ...!!!
I was wrong and I am now writing this on blogger while the next os is made as live usb using unetbootin in the pendrive that was made alive by MS command prompt.
Its clear that I do not know the technicalities behind it.But I sure know this
"MS Command promt made me happy today!!"
PS:The said USB was not mine but it was a borrowed from someone who had borrowed it from another.And I do not want to imagine the look of the face when I break this news to the *person*(notice the stars around it--it speaks).
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