How to Install DAEMON Tools in Windows 7

From time to time I find myself with an ISO image file of a disc. I don’t want to waste a blank CD if I am only gonna use it one time. This is where DAEMON tools comes in to help.

DAEMON tools creates a virtual CD drive in your computer and it enables you to mount these ISO images as if they were CDs. However, I have been using Windows 7 since the Beta came out and i had not been successful at installing DAEMON tools correctly. Every time I tried, the system keep rebooting and at startup it would just start the installation over again until now.

This is what I did to make it work

First you need to download and install the latest SPTD Driver here:

32-bit

64-bit

After the installation is complete, you will need to reboot your machine.

When Windows starts up, download daemon tools if you have not already done it and install it.

That is all you have to do.

I have used it for about a week and it has yet to fail on me. If you have any problems, questions or comments go ahead and contact me.

Compaq Presario Code Purple Fix

About four years ago I received a Compaq Presario SR1403WM for Christmas. This computer had an AMD Sepron which is a single core processor. Yesterday I got my upgrade parts from Newegg, which were a new AsRock motherboard, 4GB of Ram and a new Dual-core processor and of course I used the hard drive that came originally came with the computer since I own the copy of windows and don’t have the money to buy a new one.

Well since it was basically a new computer, I decided to do a clean restore using Compaq’s recovery partition. Bad Idea.

Everything went well up until windows booted and i got this message

I could not do anything besides turn the computer off. A couple of google searches led me to what the problem was. Apparently HP / Compaq, puts a “tattoo” on the computer’s hardware which is some code that has to match up with the code in the recovery partition, and if anything is ever change and a restore is done , like in my case, then windows would not start up.

Thankfully, there is a workaround.

Get yourself a Windows Recovery Disc and when it loads up it will give you two options as shown in the screenshot below.

Press “R” and you will get this:

Log in to the windows installation.

After you log in type

“cd C:\hp\bin\configcheck” without quotation marks.

Once you are in that directory type

“RENAME run.py run.p_” again without quotation marks.

That’s it!!!

I booted up my system after renaming the file and it went right into windows without any problems.

If you have any questions leave a comment or send me an e-mail.