Acer aspire one- How to convert Linpus Linux OS to Windows XP OS step by step.

I have a new brand acer aspire one 110 on linpus linux as its os. I want to change it to windows xp....(coz with new linpus linux i cannot go more further in action... :-))

Im know installing Windows XP or any other operating system is easy if you have a USB optical disc drive. But if all you’ve got is a USB flash drive and another computer with a DVD burner, you can still install Windows XP or others windows or many Linux distributions for that matter. (acer aspire one 110 dont have a dvd or cd drive).

After spending most of three days to find a solutions to installing Windows XP on my acer aspire one 110, mini-Note with trial and error... I thought I’d share my results with you. Remember, your results may very, so while these are the steps that worked for me, they may not work for you. For example, depending on the version of Windows XP you are using, you may need a different hotfix to install the webcam drivers.

Here’s what you’ll need:

1. 1 USB flash drive, 1GB or larger
2. 1 Windows XP installation disc (or others)
3. Assorted files that I’ll describe as we go along.
4. Others laptop or pc with usb drive and cd or dvd drive.

Preparing the flash drive

First, we need to prepare the flash drive.

1. Download and unzip (updated 31/12/2013) this file, which should contain 2 folders:
a) Bootsect
b) USB_prep8.
2. Navigate to the USB_prep8 folder and click on usb_prep8.cmd. This will bring up a Windows console window.
3. Press any key to continue and a PeToUSB window will open.
4. Make sure your flash drive is selected, and click start to format your flash drive.
5. When the format is complete, click OK, but do not close the PeToUSB window or the Windows Console.
6. Open a new console window by typing “cmd” into the run box in the Windows Start Menu.
7. Find your Bootsect folder (if you’re not used to DOS commands, you can type “dir” to list directories and files, type “cd foldername” to navigate to a folder name - called foldername in this example, and if there’s a long folder name you can save time by typing the “cd” and just the first few letters and then hitting the Tab key to fill in the rest of the name).
8. Once you’re in the Bootsect folder, type “bootsect.exe /nt52 g:” if “g” is the letter assigned to your flash drive. If it’s E, then change the letter to e. If it’s Z, make it z. Get it?
9. When this is done, you should see a message letting you know that the bootcode was updated, and you can close this console window (but not the other console window).
10. Close the PeToUSb Window, but make sure not to close the remaining console window yet
11. You should now see a list of 8 options in the console.
12. Select 1 and find the drive with your Windows installation disc.
13. Select 2 and pick a random drive letter (but not one that’s already on your PC, since this will be a virtual drive used for copying your files).
14. Select 3 and enter the drive letter for your USB flash drive.
15. Select 4 and follow the rest of the on-screen directions and you should be all set.

The process should take about 15-20 minutes. When it’s done, you should have a bootable USB stick that you can use to install Windows XP the same way you would if you had a CD/DVD drive.

Notes :First of all, there’s a chance you may get down to step 15 and the program will tell you that it can’t create the virtual drive. This may happen if you’ve already gone through the whole process and are trying to do it again to fix problems. The solution seems to be rebooting your computer and trying again. Or at least that’s what worked for me.

Installing XP on the acer aspire one 110 mini-note

Now it’s time to load Windows XP onto your cer aspire one 110 mini-note. If you have a USB CD/DVD drive, you probably skipped all the stuff above, and that’s fine. Most of the following steps should work as well. These instructions should work whether you’re installing Windows XP on a system that came preloaded with SUSE or Windows Vista.

1. Insert your USB flash drive in one of the USB ports on your Mini-Note.
2. Power on your computer and hit F9 to bring up a boot device selection window.
3. Choose your flash drive, or if you’re using a USB optical disc drive, select that instead.
4. Select 2 for a text-based installation.
5. Create one large NTFS partition (using the quick option will save you a lot of time)
6. Follow the on-screen directions.

Notes : At least once during the install process, you will be prompted to reboot your computer. If you try to let it boot from the hard drive, you’ll get an error message. What you need to do is hit F9 again when it reboots and this time select option 1 for a GUI setup.

Configuring Windows XP for booting.

Once you’re done installing XP, you may notice that you are unable to boot into Windows from the hard drive. If you have the USB disk installed, again hit F9, and select the GUI option again. Windows should start. You’ll need to edit the boot.ini file:

1. Type “msconfig” into the run box in the start menu
2. Select the BOOT.INI tab
3. First, try the “Check All Boot Paths,” option. This may solve your problem by finding and removing the incorrect boot settings.
4. You may also need to edit the boot.ini file manually. Boot.ini must something look like this :

‘multi(o)disk(0)rdisk(o)partition(1)\Windows=”Windows XP Pro” /fastdetect’

The steps below will show you how to backup and edit its.

1. Open your System Properties by right-clicking on My Computer and choosing Properties. Alternately, you could type “sysdm.cpl” into the run box in the start menu
2. Select the Advanced Tab
3. Click the Settings option under Star
tup and Recovery
4. Click the button that says Edit to open up your boot.ini file in Notepad. It’s a good idea to save a backup now by selecting Save As, and saving the file to a place where you won’t forget it.
5. Now you can safely edit the boot.ini file, changing the partition number or other settings to more closely resemble the one I listed above. Save your file, and hopefully you’ll be able to reboot without your USB stick.

Configuring Windows XP

Now you should have a working Windows XP desktop, but you’ll find that you can’t connect to the internet via Ethernet or WLAN, you have no sound, and no support for the Fn keys. In order to fix these issues you’re going to need a few driver files. Acer has added Windows XP drivers to its support page for the acer aspire one 110. You should try these official drivers and install its.

acer aspire one 110 - download
acer aspire one 150 - download

Look like everything is fine but got a case the webcam are not functional so what you can do is :

1) Go into the Device manager - Uninstall the Chrystal eye Webcam shows up under "Imaging Devices" (right click, choose Uninstall).
2) Download the WLAN Atheros v7.6.0.224 Driver from the Acer Website.
3) Install the driver... Restart - Windows will then recognize your webcam (look in the device driver - see above). You will then have to log into Windows Messanger or Yahoo messenger or skype to "see" your webcam.

Good Luck..... ;-)

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The Firewall Hackers

TAN DAILIN LETS OUT AN AUDIBLE gasp when he is told that he was identified in the U.S. as someone who may have been responsible for recent security breaches at the Pentagon. "Will the FBI send special agents out to arrest me?" he asks. Much as they might want to talk with him, though, FBI agents don't have jurisdiction in Chengdu, the capital of China's Sichuan province, where Tan lives. And given that he has been lauded in China's official press for his triumphs in military-sponsored hacking competitions, Tan is unlikely to have problems with local law enforcement. But Tan and his seven companions, who make up the self-proclaimed Network Crack Program Hacker (NCP1I) group, are taking no chances. A couple of weeks after they spoke to TIME, they shuttered the group's website, on which they used to proudly post specially designed hacking programs that could be downloaded for free. Visitors now find only a notice that the page is being redesigned or cannot access the site at all.

Tan and his fellow hackers may be lying low for now. But the controversy over the activities of hundreds of Chinese like them will only continue to grow. Though the evidence remains mostly circumstantial, a picture is emerging of a coordinated effort by Chinese-military authorities to recruit hackers such as Tan and his group to winkle out information from computer systems outside China and launch cyber attacks in future conflicts.

China has long regarded cyber warfare as a critical component of asymmetrical warfare in any future conflict with the U.S. From China's perspective, it makes sense to use any means possible to counter America's huge technological advantage. A current wave of hacking attacks seems to be aimed mainly at collecting information and probing defenses, but in a real cyberwar, a successful attack would target computer-dependent infrastructure, such as banking and power generation. "Can one nation deliver a crippling blow to another through cyberspace?" asks American Sam i Saydjari, head of the private computer-security group Cyber Defense Agency and former president of Professionals for Cyber Defense. "The answer is a definite yes. The Chinese know we are much more dependent on technology, and the more you depend on it, the more vulnerable you are."

Hacking attacks from the Middle Kingdom aren't new. In 1999, after U.S. planes bombed Beijing's embassy in Belgrade, and again in 2001, when a Chinese fighter crashed after a collision with a U.S. surveillance plane, Chinese hackers conducted cyberbattles with their U.S. counterparts. For several years beginning in 2003, U.S. government servers were subjected to a coordinated series of hacker attacks, code-named Titan Rain, which officials said had originated in China.

The scale and sophistication of the activities apparently conducted by Tan and his group—and their alleged ties to the People's Liberation Army (PLA)—are an insight into China's effort to establish a corps of civilian cyber warriors. A recent series of intrusions into the systems of Western governments and major corporations was blamed on China (though none of the intrusions have been specifically tied to Tan and his group). In December British media reported that the country's top ant espionage official had sent a letter to 300 major corporations warning that they faced attacks from "Chinese state organizations." In May computers in the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel were compromised by programs that had originated in China. In June U.S. military officials said an attack from China had penetrated a computer system at the Pentagon—though nonclassified, it included a server used by the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Beijing denies that it is behind hacker attacks. Jiang Yu, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, described such reports as "wild accusations" and said they reflected a "cold war mentality."

Outside China, however, the worries continue. "Recent events have made Western governments very nervous that this is just the tip of the iceberg," says Saydjari. "[The Chinese] have launched the equivalent of a Sputnik in cyberspace, and the U.S. and other countries are scrambling to catch up."

Tan, a.k.a. Withered Rose, and seven other members of the NCPH workshop don't look as though they could bring the U.S. economy to a halt. All in their early 2os, rail thin and with the prison pallor acquired from long nights spent hunched over monitors, they look like what they are: a bunch of nerds. They refuse to give their real names, referring to one another by nicknames—Blacksmith, Firestarter, Fisherman, Floor sweeper, Chef, Plumber, Pharmacist. All vehemently deny having anything to do with attacks on U.S. government systems. "Messing with the U.S. Department of Defense is no small thing," says Floor sweeper. "We read about arrested terrorists, about Guantanamo. Who gets away with messing with the U.S. government?"

O.K., so what does the NCPH, which Tan founded in 2004 when he was a student at Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, actually do? The answer starts out vague, but eventually pride gets the better of the young men. They acknowledge that the group first got its reputation by hacking 400o of the hacker associations' websites in China. That was during their "young and hotheaded college days," as Fisherman puts it. The NCPH is also famous for the remote-network-control programs they wrote and offered for download. These programs, which allow hackers to take over other computers, are exactly the kind that were used to obtain documents, spreadsheets and other materials from U.S. government offices in the most recent attacks.

But according to two detailed studies by iDefense, a branch of VeriSign, an Internet-security company based in Mountain View, Calif., the NCPH created 35 programs that took advantage of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office to implant so-called Trojans—programs that take partial control of an infected computer and can be used to send documents, spreadsheets and other files over the Internet. The two iDefense reports say that beginning in May 2006, the Chengdu group "launched a barrage of attacks against multiple U.S. government agencies ... The result of all of this activity is that the NCPII group siphoned thousands—if not millions—of unclassified U.S. government documents back to China." Citing evidence of Tan's close ties to the military and other Chinese hackers' organizations that have been suspected of acting on behalf of the military, the reports conclude that Tan and the NCPH were almost certainly acting on behalf of and funded by the Chinese armed forces. "Most likely," the reports suggest, "hundreds of these groups exist in China." Tan declined to comment on the studies.

In response to questions from TIME, a faxed letter from China's State Council Information Office said accusations that the PLA was involved in hacker attacks against overseas targets were "groundless, irresponsible and also have ulterior motives." The Chinese police, the letter said, had received no requests from overseas governments asking for investigations of Chinese attacks on their websites. But reports in Chinese newspapers suggest that the establishment of a cybermilitia is well under way. In recent years, for example, the military has engaged in nationwide recruiting campaigns to try to discover the nation's most talented hackers. The campaigns are conducted through competitions that feature large cash prizes, with the PLA advertising the challenges in local newspapers.

Tan is a successful graduate of this system. He earned $4,000 in prize money from hacker competitions, enough to make him worthy of a glowing profile in Sichuan University's campus newspaper. Tan told the paper that he was at his happiest "when he succeeds in gaining control of a server" and described a highly organized selection and training process that aspiring cyber militiamen (no cyber women, apparently) undertake. The story details the links between the hackers and the military. "On July 25, 2005," it said, "Sichuan Military Command Communication Department located [Tan] through personal information published online and instructed him to participate in the network attack/defense training organized by the provincial military command, in preparation for the coming Chengdu Military Command Network Attack/Defense Competition in September." (The State Council Information Office didn't respond to questions about Tan, and China's Foreign Ministry denies knowing about him.)

With the help of experts from Sichuan University, the story continued, Tan's team won the competition and then had a month of intense training organized by the provincial military command, simulating attacks, designing hacking tools and drafting network-infiltration strategies. Tan was then chosen to represent the Sichuan Military Command in competition with other provinces. His team won again, after which, the iDefense reports say, he founded the Nc PH and acquired an unidentified benefactor ("most likely the PLA") to subsidize the group's activities to the tune of $271 a month.

It's not what you would expect from a bunch of guys drinking beer (lots of it) in the back room of a hotpot restaurant in Chengdu. Suggest that they might hack for cash, and the NCPH crew is outraged. "The real hackers are not doing it for a name or money," says Fisherman, who sports a small diamond-stud earring. "The real hackers keep their heads down, finding network loopholes, write killer programs and live off social security."
Spoken like some grungy geek from Seattle. Except that in China, apparently, the definition of social security might include a stipend from the army

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