CCNA NetRiders 2014

No próximo dia 15 de Julho, das 14:00 às 16:30 irá decorrer a competição CCNA NetRides 2014 Portugal.

Contamos assim na competição, com os formandos que tiverem interesse em participar.

As salas disponíveis na ATEC – Porto são as 1.13 e 1.03.

As inscrições deverão ser feitas até ao dia 14 de Julho. Devem seguir as indicações dadas pela CISCO (recebidas por e-mail).

Boa sorte a todos os que vão participar. Espero, mais uma vez, levar ao campeonato Mundial um formando da ATEC este ano.

Clone a Computer Hard Drive

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Redo Backup & Recovery

There is many methods to clone a Hard Disk Drive (HDD). Some are expensive and other are free.

I’ve try this solution and love it.

The program is “Redo Backup & Recovery”, based on Ubunto kernel, and it is a free opensource solution that help me to migrate a optical HDD to an SSD Hard Disk Drive.

I make this tutorial to invite you to try this program…

 

To backup the HDD:

Step 1 – Donwload Redo Backup & Recovery from SourceForge.net.

Step 2 – Create a boot CD from the ISO file downloaded or create a bootable PEN Drive to do it. To make a bootable pen drive, please read this article: https://pedrovasconcelos.4u.pt/create-an-os-instalation-from-an-usb-pen-drive/ 

Step 3 – Reboot your machine and boot from the CD-Drive or USB (to make this change you have to enter on BIOS and set this device to be your first drive to run on the section “Boot priority”

Step 4 – This system is very fast to start. To backup you hard drive you have to choose the “Backup” option.

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Step 5 – You have to choose the HDD you want to backup and click “Next”. In my example I’ll choose the Drive 1.

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Step 6 – You have to choose witch partition you would like to backup and click “Next”. On my example, I’d like to backup the entire drive (select all the partition).

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Step 7 – Select where are located the destination drive (locally, on my PC or remotely, on my network or on a FTP server).

On my example, the drive is connected directly on my PC and it is my “Drive 2”. Click “Next” after you choose your destination drive.

Step 8 – Choose where you want to copy the backup files. If you choose “/” you choose directly to root of your destination drive. Click “Next”.

Step 9 – Choose the name of the files. It will show a suggestion of the current date. Click “Next”

Step 10 – Wait until backup is finished (100%).  The time you have to wait until this task is done depend essentially of the velocity of you HDD and the size occupied of your data and if the disk is fragmented or not.

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Step 11 – Click “Ok” then “Exit”.

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Step 12 – Restart your PC. Your Backup is created successfully.

 

To restore the backup:

Step 1 – Restart you PC like you did on Step 3 of the last topic.

Step 2 – Choose the “Restore” option.

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Step 3 – Select the source drive and click “Next”.

Step 4 – Select the file “.backup” you want to restore and click “Next”.

Step 5 – Select the destination drive and click “Next”. It will show you a dialog massage to make shore if you want to proceed, because it will overwrite the data of destination. Make shore if you want to proceed with this task.

To proceed click “Ok”.

Step 6 – Depending of the velocity of your destination drive and the size of your backup, this process will be fast or slow… When this process finish, restart your PC.

 

I hope this tutorial is useful for you… Please do not do this if you are not sure what it does!

Enjoy this free application 😉

Galaxy Gear 2 / Neo (my review)

Samsung Gear 2 / Neo
Samsung Gear 2 / Neo

Here is my review as a satisfied customer of Samsung. I bought a Samsung Gear 2 (about 5 days) and I think is one of the best gadgets I’ve acquired recently.

The interaction between my Note 3 and Gear 2 is fabulous … What I like more ? It is difficult to answer …

What I use most is the step count , setting new goals every day , the handsfree, read emails and messages without having to take the phone and use the timer…

About the autonomy of battery, I’m quite impressed! Lasts about 2 and a half days with a regular / heavy use. When reach 15 % of battery, disables the ability to take photographs. On 5 % only gets to see the hours…

Regarding the camera, obviously was not expecting superb quality (compared with the 13MP Note 3). However, despite having 2MP, the Gear has a very good quality… However it is a feature I’ll pass …

My choice of Gear 2 instead of Gear Neo is due to the fact that the Gear2 have Metal chassis and the Gear Neo plastic chassis… I’ve been with this 2 smartwatch on my arm and chose to spend + € 100 for Gear2.

As for Samsung Apps for now is still much to be desired, as there are only about 40 available, with half of them pay up (every 1 € / each). Just bought one (a calculator) that became a disappointment , because I’ve a quicker head (it has a small screen too much for this functionality).

I got it for 5 days and each day, I see a new App in Samsung Apps. Waiting to see if I can find some really useful… If so, I will publish here (if I remember to do it). However it’s already have a number of applications (bu default), that have proved very useful and interesting. Hope to see more Apps soon!

Create an OS instalation from an USB pen drive

This tutorial was tested with Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium.

I’ve created a bootable installation of Windows 7 from an USB pen drive.

The steps you should follow to do that:

 

Step 1:

Windows Key + “R” key;

Type DISKPART “ENTER”

 

Step 2:

diskpart

  • On the prompt of Disk Part type “list disk” to see the disks of your computer.
    • My USB pen drive is the disk 2.
  • Type: select disk “number of your usb disk” (CAUTION: Make sure that you know which is your USB disk drive).
  • “clean”
  • “create partition primary”
  • “format fs=fat32 quick”
  • “active”
  • “exit”

Step 3:

After configure this you can copy all the files of your Windows DVD (or other Operating System supported by this file system – fat32) to this USB drive. It is able to boot from this drive 😉

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Fomando da ATEC – Academia CISCO em 1º lugar no NetRiders 2013

8 formandos da ATEC nos TOP 10 Nacionais

No passado dia 13 de setembro de 2013 ocorreu no país a competição nacional do NetRiders da CISCO.

A ATEC conseguiu as classificações de 1º, 4º, 5º, 6º, 7º, 8º, 9º e 10º:

Os formandos premiados da ATEC eram todos do curso de Especialização Tecnológica em Gestão de Redes e Sistemas Informáticos que incluí parte do currículo da CISCO e a certificação internacional Cisco CCENT.

Parabéns ao Luís Ferreira, da turma GRSIP.0113 que irá às competições Internacionais no próximo dia 24 de Setembro de 2013, representar Portugal.

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