Hide drive without software in Windows

We will be using the command prompt to access a utility that comes with Windows. This tool is hardly used by normal users but can help you maintain your hard disk partitions. Lets get started.

How to Disable USB Drive / Device

Users and companies with Windows OS that support group policies can block these USB devices easily. Here is an easy way that will work on all systems even without group policy.

Increase External Hard Drive Performance

We can use the write caching feature to improve the performance of the external hard disk but you need to make sure you disconnect the device in the proper way.

Get Automatic Shortcuts to USB drive when you plug it in

Desktop Media is a small software that can add a shortcut on your Desktop to any USB drives that you plug in.
The software detects hard drives, DVD drives and USB devices. For USB and DVD drives the shortcut will…

Recover Deleted Files Freeware – Recuva

Deleted an important file or cleared your camera’s photos accidentally ? Then you need a software to recover those files. Most of the softwares that do this are paid ones, since they know how precious your data is. We had…

Why is Hard Drive Capacity Different from Advertised Sizes ?

There must have been times when you bought a hard drive or a memory card and realized that the hard drive capacity shown on the package is more than the available space. Ever wondered why the available space was lesser…

WinDirStat – find and delete unwanted files

Ever wondered what is taking all that space on your hard-drive ? The hard-disk could almost be full and still cant make out where the big files are ? They could could be hidden deep withing sub-directories. We could try…