How To Boot From USB Thumbdrive In Vmware Workstation -

Normally, You cannot boot from USB Thumbdrive in Vmware Workstation because when you restart your VMware machine all the external hd, thumbdrive, automatically disconnect from your machine...

So thats it means you cannot boot from USB thumbdrive in Vmware workstation, answer is nope. You can boot your USB thumbdrive but you need special tool that is "Plop Boot Manager", you can download it from their Official website  http://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html:

1. Download Plop Boot Manager.
2. Extract Plop Boot Manager iso image file from archive compressed file.
3. Go to the VMware Machine setting, then go for Cd/DVD(IDE) then tick options "Connected" & "Connect at power ON" and browse the Plop Boot Manager iso image under "Use iso image file" option.                                                                                                                                                         
   

   

   
   

4. Then Click OK to save setting and Start your VMware machine.
5. During Startup boot VMware from CD.
   

   

   
   

6. Plop Boot Manager starts and then go for usb by using of arrow of keyboard.
7. Now You can boot USB thumbdrive in VMware workstation.

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Kon-boot to Usb Pendrive -

When I discovered Kon-Boot and posted it in my blog, I got request on how to put Kon-Boot ISO image file to USB. We know that kon-boot available with floppy and CD image But Now days Floppy doesn't come with machines and CDs are hard to put in pocket. So in this post We put kon-boot in USB pendrive with the help of tool Unetbootin 3.5.7 (Older Version) and it allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of Linux distributions or Windows, without requiring you to use of CD. In this trick use the floppy image instead of the CD ISO Image :

1. Download older version of Unetbootin and install.
2. Download kon-boot floppy image and extract the zip file to get .img file.
3. Plugin your USB Pen Dive.
4. Run Unetbotin 3.5.7, Select Diskimage, click .img file from where you extract image file in above step.
5. Make sure USB Drive is selected for Type and the drive letter is the USB flash drive that you want to install Kon-Boot. Click OK. It should take a few seconds to finish installing Kon-Boot floppy image into your USB.
6. Replace syslinux.cfg and chain.c32 of your usb pendrive by edited syslinux.cfg and chain.c32 from here.(credit goes to Irongreek). 
7. Now bootup your machine with USB Pendrive by changing the settings from BIOS.
8. If you get it right then you should see the kon-boot Screen as shown below...
   

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Forget Windows OR Linux Password ? No Problem -

When user forget the password of his windows & Linux machine, then the question comes in the mind - What next ?

One of the Solution of that problem may be Bypass the windows or Linux machine password by great tool- "Kon-boot", which you can download from their Official website "http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/" or kon-boot cd image file from here. Kon-boot is cool tool that boots from CD or floppy and modifies memory to let you login without knowing a local accont password in both Windows (even up to Windows 7 but not free) and Linux (not all destro).Konbot is sort of bootloader that lets you bypass when the OS finishes booting.

Unfortunately CDs are to put in your pocket and floppy doesn't come with machine. So what I need to put this tool Kon-boot into USB Pendrive.Which I will explain in my next post .

1. Download kon boot cd image file.
2. Burn this iso cd image file into CD by using any CD burner Software , You can use UltraIso to write .iso file in CD.
3. Set Bios to boot from CD.
4. Then follow the instruction.

If you have problem related this post, you can see the Video given below ......

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