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Boot-up your computer from your T-Mobile G1!

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 2:28 PM

Sure, you could just use your T-Mobile G1 as an Android smartphone and call it a fulfilling day. But then you’d be missing out on the geekery that is booting your PC from your T-Mobile G1! The fine folks over at Logical Tech have figured out a way to use the T-Mobile G1 as a bootable USB drive, and they’ve posted a nice little guide on how to do it for yourself.

You see, the T-Mobile G1 sports a microSDHC card slot, allowing you to expand the G1′s storage up to 16GB of space. And, with the T-Mobile G1′s mass storage mode allowing you to use that microSD card like a USB flash drive, the next logical step was to use the T-Mobile G1 as a bootable drive.

Specifically, the Ultimate Boot CD utility that allows you to view and interact with the contents of any hard drive has made the jump from USB drive-based booting to G1-based booting. With a couple patches, you too can use your T-Mobile G1 to boot your PC using the Ultimate Boot CD.

Getting your T-Mobile G1 to act as a bootable drive for your PC is a simple matter of:

  1. Inserting microSD card into G1
  2. Connecting G1 to computer
  3. Mounting the G1 as a USB device
  4. Installing UBCDfix2.exe (extract to folder “UBCD” on your desktop)
  5. Downloading the Ultimate Boot CD to the UBCD folder on your desktop.
  6. Running the fixubcd2.bat file within the UBCD folder

It really is that simple. A few simple steps and a couple downloads is all it takes to turn your G1 into a bootable flash drive running UBCD. Head on over to Logical Tech for the complete tutorial!

[Via: LogicalTech]

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Will Park

Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...