Friday, 12 July 2013

Boot Through USB Even If BIOS DOESNT SUPPORT : WITHOUT NEED OF ISO/FLOPPY :PLOP BOOT MANAGER



Gone are the days when we required CD's/DVD's to setup an OS on our laptops/desktops.
Nowadays mostly everyone is aware of USB booting and it is a regular thing to format and load up a new OS..


However on some old computers the option of USB booting is not supported.
The BIOS does not show a USB/Removable Device in its Boot Devices List.


The same happened to me...i bought an old Compaq laptop...the deal was good so i had to go with it :D..The laptop worked fine and it was good and efficient to carry out normal day today tasks like working on MS-Office,surfing the web,listening music etc.
However the older soft wares which the previous owner had installed crapped up the hard drive and registry so i decided to give the device a full hard drive format and install Windows XP Professional 32-bit so it works a little more smoother..i had a flash drive with Win XP so i just needed to go to the BIOS and prioritize the USB device and start a smooth installation but NO LUCK their was no option of USB devices..i fiddled around with the options and restarted many times but some error message like "NTLDR is missing" came up or the device started to boot the old OS.
So the GOOGLE research started and i came across an utility called "Plop Boot Manager",the software is EPIC and the installation is breeze and tiny.I read many articles (howtogeek),saw many random videos but none of them offered a easy way out,the links and articles i found out had one thing in common that was "BURN THE ISO TO A CD"....GODDAMMIT !!! ..who the hell has time for that :D ,moreover that required a CD ...that required purchasing...that required money..that required works...that lead to a NO !! ...
i visited the PLOP tool website again and read through the guidelines...and saw more videos and decided to give the tool a shot without the need of burning an iso and stuff..

i downloaded latest PLOP .zip file (plpbt-5.0.14.zip)

extracted it :

 
CONTENTS OF .ZIP FILE




The contents were kinda confusing...so i read the README file and after going through the contents, opened the Windows folder and found a .exe file named plpbt4win ,which was supposed to add a boot manager to the Windows.
opening the file opened a cmd window..thank god i am good at cmd so it was a easy go for me..

 however the file provides a guide about its functions so its gonna be easy for everyone :)



EXIT EVERYTHING AND COPY THE FOLDER CONTAINING THE EXTRACTED FILES TO C: DRIVE AND RENAME IT TO 'plop'

Now open the plpbt4win.exe from the Windows folder inside the plop folder.

TYPE ?
TYPE "bin c:\plop\ plpbt.bin" HIT ENTER
a success message should follow like this :




After this
TYPE "c c:\plop\plpbt4win.ldr" HIT ENTER
a success message should follow
NOW
TYPE a "Plop Boot Manager" HIT ENTER (this is the name of the boot entry that would be created)

THATS IT TYPE "q" HIT ENTER

NOW RESTART THE MACHINE..WAIT TILL THE OS CHOOSE MENU SHOWS UP
THE BOOT ENTRY CREATED BY YOU SHOULD BE IN THE LIST..

IN THIS TUTORIAL IT WAS "Plop Boot Manager"
SELECT  "Plop Boot Manager"

LOADING...

NOW THEIR IT IS THE PLOP SCREEN WITH THE SPACE BACKGROUND AND A SMALL MENU AT THE TOP



INSERT THE BOOTABLE USB NOW AND SELECT USB AND HIT ENTER !

WORKED DIDNT IT :) NO NEED OF USING CD'S AND STUFF

IT WORKED PERFECTLY FOR ME ON A WIN XP RUNNING OLD LAPTOP

HOPE IT HELPS YOU ALL TOO  :)
         
VIDEO TUTORIAL :




THANK YOU AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US






3 comments:

  1. Hey, great tutorial, but i keep getting an error.
    Could you please email me at Muzzak13@gmail.com to help
    Thanks, Murray

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  3. when I open plpbt4win.exe (CMD) I got An error [error : unsupported operating system]Please help what can I do now?

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