December 6, 2013
The meeting was called to order at 7:50 pm by President Chuck Horner. See Lola Hunter at the ticket table, for raffle tickets, door prize tickets, and 3" x 5" cards to write questions for discussion/answers at the end of the Meeting. Get at least one $5 raffle ticket for this month's raffle prize, one of two PC Clubhouse refurbished computers.
Chuck will miss the January Main Meeting, since he is scheduled for surgery the day before.
Nominations were closed for the Board of Directors election after it was determined that there were no further nominations. Chuck explained the function of the BoD, who will appoint the officers—the Executive Committee—who take care of the day-today-business of the Club. A ballot was distributed to each member present.
SIG announcements:
The Linux SIG has been postponed.
Presentation: Geek Wish List:
Chuck would like a mini male USB to female adapter so that he can run a USB drive on his phone.
Sally Holt would like an iPhone.
Chuck is really frustrated because no member has taken responsibility for developing program presentations.
The results of the election were announced. Congratulations to the 2014 PCC Board of Directors:
Chuck Horner
Jan Fagerholm
Michael Wong
George Kornbluth
Bayle Emlein
The group watched the first part of the APCUG Virtual Conference program discussing Windows Boot Disk/Windows 8 Recovery Disk was shown. Ultrabooks and tablets do not have a CD / DVD drive and generally do not come with system disks. They are, however, designed to boot from an external device. A boot disk is one that can boot a non-responsive device and that has tools for repair.
Steps:
1. acquire an external DVD drive or flash drive 4 G or greater (which will become a dedicated boot drive, you cannot store other files on it)
2. create a drive
3. the drive can be used on another computer
4. all data on the drive will be lost in this process
Creating a bootable USB drive:
1. Open the command prompt with administrator privileges
2. Open the Disk Management Utilities with the command : diskpart
3. Display the connected disks by typing the command: list disk
4. Enter the disk # from the list
5. Clean the flash drive by entering the command: clean
6. Create a bootable partition with the command: create partition
primary
7. Select partition 1 and press Enter
8. Format the USB drive with the command: format fs=fat32
9. Press Enter, wait while the process works
10. Assign the USB a drive letter with the command: assign to the thumb drive a letter designation
11. Type Exit to end the disk management program.
12. Once you have made the USB drive bootable, you can copy system files using Drag and Drop or Copy
13. Copy over any drivers you might need during operating system installation
Andrew Tews suggests a simpler way, downloading the Microsoft program:
USB DVD Creator
and following the directions, noting the source and destination drives. You can find drivers by running the USB and repairing the installation on your newly created drive. The USB stick must be at least 4 Gigabytes since the boot file is over 3 Gig. Andrew will do a live presentation at the January 3 meeting.
Door Prizes
Forte Systems tool kit -Joy Somerville
PalmSource tee shirt - Lola Hunter
Elab water bottle - Bob Kiessling
Zire windbreaker - Bayle Emlien
3D-Album - Ron Seipel
PalmSource tee shirt - Michael Wong
InterVideo Ulead bag - John Cordeniz
Fanny pack - George Kornbluth
PalmSource tee shirt - Sally Holt
GreatCall bag - Andrew Tews
Golf balls and tees - Yorkman Lowe
Raffle Prize:
Clubhouse computer system
Sally Holt
Clubhouse computer system
Bayle Emlein
Thank you to Michael Wong for taking care of the chairs, tables, signs, and refreshments. Thanks once again to George Kornbluth for taking care of the refreshments.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:15 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Bayle Emlein,
Secretary
