Finally, after considering host location, bandwith available and space provided, my blog has its new home now.  Wow, blog transfer process is not as difficult as I thought before. In this case, I use the same domain name and only move the web hosting to another provider.

Steps I used to move my blog from old host to the new one:

1. From the old host:

• Make a full backup for your blog (including mysql database) in compressed format (*.zip,*.gzip,*.gz) and download to your local harddrive.
• It’s better to extract the data for easy access.

2. From the new host:

• After registration on the new host, you will get a temporary address for the new blog.
• Login to your Control Panel and setup a fresh Wordpress engine.
• Open your phpmyAdmin, select your new wp database and go to Import menu.
• Upload your old mysql dump file (*.sql) of the old host from step 1 and click Go.
• When finished, you already have your blog database moved.
• Now upload your old blog files (themes, plugins, image upload, etc) under directory wp-content to the new host using FTP or File Manager to the corresponding folder on your new blog directory (eg. all file under wp-content/themes should go to wp-content/themes too).

3. From the old host:

• If you used email hosting also, don’t forget to download your mail right now.
• Go to your domain manager and change the DNS to point to your new DNS as your provider gave you.
• Maybe your blog will not accessible for a while since it will take sometime to propagate your new DNS to the world wide web.

4. From the new host:

• When your blog has been accessible from your domain name, go to your blog Admin area and configure the blog to your old setting (theme used, plugins installed, etc).
• If you used email, go to your CPanel and set up some usernames used for email activity, so you won’t lost contact from the world.
• Your blog has moved to the new host!

5. Done.

ReviveYourLife is holding a contest to win an ASUS Netbook.

Prize:

Asus Eee PC Netbook.

• -Intel Celeron Processor 353
• -160GB Serial ATA hard drive
• -1GB DDR2 SoDIMM Memory
• -8.9? WSVGA widescreen display
• -Built in webcam and 3 high-speed USB 2.0 ports
• -Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Operating System

How to Enter:

Required Contest Entry – At a minimum, all contest participants must complete this entry.

One (1) Contest Entry – Subscribe to ReviveYourLife.com to receive free email updates when new content is posted.

Additional Optional Contest Entries – Participants can earn additional contest entries by completing the steps listed below:

Five (5) Contest Entries – Write a short post on your blog or personal website promoting this contest. The post that you write must contain a valid hyperlink to the original contest announcement post at Revive Your Life.

Three (3) Contest Entries – Become a Fan of Revive Your Life on Facebook!

Three (3) Contest Entries – Add ReviveYourLife.com to the blogroll or links page of your blog or website.

Two (2) Contest Entries – Leave a useful, value-added comment on another post at ReviveYourLife.com.

Deadline:

Start (entries can be submitted) – Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Finish (contest closed, no more entries accepted) – Friday, July 31, 2009
Winner Announced – Monday, August 3, 2009 by random.

The editors of the Official Football is proud to inaugurate its own blog with a great contest to win this smartphone.

Prize:

LG KP 500 Cookie Smartphone.

How to Enter:

To join just to have a blog, active since at least April 1 2009 and still in use. Just write on your blog a post that describes this competition of the Official Football, where the promotional image above plus a link to this article and one to the homepage of the Official Football (www.gazzettacalcio.com).

Make a comment at the contest post before 23:59, 16 July 2009 to get a ticket.

Additional Tickets:

PAGERANK BONUS – You get a ticket more for each point of pagerank of your blog (homepage or where the post is reached).

BONUS BLOGROLL – You get a ticket in adding more to your blogroll, in the links of the sidebar, one of these two links of your choice (for convenience alongside the code):

1. Copa <a title="Calciomercato" href="http://www.gazzettacalcio.com/">Calciomercato</a>
2. Champions League <a title="Champions League" href="http://www.gazzettacalcio.com/">Champions League</a>

REGISTRATION BONUS – You get a ticket simply by registering before July 1.

Deadline:

July 16th, 2009.

WPLuxe is running a contest to win some premium themes from Felix of RichWP.

Prizes:

RichWP currently offers eight diverse themes; magazine themes, CMS and gallery themes, each priced at $59.90.

- BlogBeast Magazine Theme: Demo | Theme Info

- DailyNews Magazine Theme: Demo | Theme Info

- Fastblogger Magazine Theme: Demo | Theme Info

- Magazine Theme: Demo | Theme Info

- Personal Agency Theme: Demo | Theme Info

- Photo Theme: Demo | Theme Info

- RichBIZ CMS Theme: Demo | Theme Info

- Superblogger Magazine Theme: Demo | Theme Info

How to Enter:

Write a post on your blog about this contest:

• Your post must link to http://richwp.com and http://wpluxe.com.
• Confirm your entry by commenting on the contest post and also indicate in your comment which of the two themes you would prefer to win.

Deadline:

The contest will run until 23.59 GMT on Sunday 14 June 2009, when the winners will be selected via random.org.

Lee from MyBlog2Day is running a WantedBlog Contest with a total prize of $345.

Prizes:

Grand Prizes – 1 Winner Only
1) $50 Cash prize via paypal. Liew from Make Money Online.
2) 3 free hours of blog consulting, they will analyze your current blog and advise and help you improve your blog to reach your goals worth $100. Adam from The 42nd Estate.

2nd Prizes – 1 Winner Only
1) Ultimate Blogging Theme worth $67. Carl Ocab from Make Money Online.
2) E-book “Quit Being A Wage Slave Using 10 Easy Steps” worth $47. Peter from Work At Home.

3rd Prizes – 1 Winner Only
1) $17 Cash prize via paypal. Lee from Make Money Online.
2) 1 Domain, 1GB space, 10GB monthly transfer, 25 email. Stretsh from BloggingNotes.

3 Consolation Prizes – 1 Winner Each
1) SEO Analysis For MainPage $50. Nicolas Prudhon from SEO Help.
2) Solo ads, it’s an email ad. She will send out your email (ad) to all 30,000+ of my newsletter subscribers worth $50. Kelly from Money Making Mommy.
3) 468×60 banner for 1 month. Simon from Home Based Business.
4) Entrecard 1000 point. Lee from Make Money Online.

How to Enter:

1) Write a blog post about this contest including this post URL and all the sponsors’ prizes and links. (50 points)
2) Follow Twitter at @myblog2day and Tweet the message. (20 points)

Join @MyBlog2Day Wanted Blog Contest! Retweet and stand the chance to win $345 Cash Prizes! http://xr.com/myblog2day

3) Subscribe my Newsletter. (30 points)
4) Leave your comment in the contest post. (10 points each, no spam please!)

Notes:

1) Own a blog.
2) Blog must be indexed by Google.
3) Blog with not less than 10 articles.

Deadline:

July 10th, 2009 and winner will be drawn on July 11th, 2009.

A few days ago, one of my friend PC got trouble. When she pressed the power button to turn on the PC, Windows XP loading and a few seconds later, it restarted again and again. At first I thought it caused by some kind of virus which show similar symptoms like that. But at second thought, I wasn’t sure about it since the PC has updated antivirus which automatically download the new virus database online from its manufacturer.

The next suspect was hardware failure. I tried to check the BIOS for some abnormalities and I could not find it. I opened the case and tried to remove some devices (RAMs,harddrive) to check whether one of them cause this. But nothing change!

So, what to do next? I tried to restart the PC again and watched the Windows loading process. And bingo! At the end of loading, for a second I saw the bluescreen of death (bsod) showed up quickly and the PC restarted again. I repeated that step until I could see the exact error message displayed on the bsod. Finally, the error said, STOP 0×000000ED UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. I googled the web and found a solution.

Requirement:

Windows XP CD-ROM

Step by step:

1.Insert the Windows XP CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, and then restart the computer. (make sure your BIOS use CD-ROM as 1st boot priority)
2.When the “Welcome to Setup” screen appears, press R to start the Recovery Console.
3.At the command prompt, type chkdsk /r , and then press ENTER.
4.Wait until the process finish and restart your machine.

This may takes a bit longer, but the system should boot back into Windows.

Reff: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555302