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Filter Drivers – Removable Media as Fixed Disk in Windows

Bharat Balegere — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:08:15 +0000

A USB Flash Drive can be disguised as a USB Hard Disk using Filter drivers. This way a USB Flash Drive can be partitioned using the inbuilt Disk Management Tool(diskmgmt.msc) and all the partitions of the USB Flash Drive can be accessed simultaneously in Windows Explorer.

Httpdisk – Mount ISO files without downloading the ISO file

Bharat Balegere — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:53:25 +0000

Sometimes you may require only some particular files inside an ISO. So downloading an entire ISO just for a few files is a big waste of bandwidth .Sometimes you may also want to know the contents of an ISO before downloading it.In such circumstances Httpdisk is very useful. Httpdisk mounts an ISO file stored somewhere in the internet to a virtual CD Drive in your computer without downloading the entire ISO file. You can then view and copy the contents of the ISO in your computer.

How to Partition a USB Flash Drive

Bharat Balegere — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:27:00 +0000

A USB Flash Drive can be easily partitioned into a maximum of 4 partitions.All the partitions can also be accessed in Windows easily.This is possible using a tool called Bootice.

Create a Hidden Partition on USB Flash Drive

Bharat Balegere — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:03:16 +0000

There are many ways and tools to hide or protect important data on a USB Flash Drive.However a simple format of the USB Flash Drive can erase the important data. Using Fbinst, a hidden partition can be created to store important data.This hidden partition stays even after formatting the USB Flash Drive.

Remove Secure Drive CDFS Partition from Transcend JetFlash USB Drive

Bharat Balegere — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 09:44:50 +0000

Transcend JetFlash JF620 USB Flash Drives have a 11mb CDFS partition containing SecureDrive and other files.Many people do not want this CDFS partition.Officially this CDFS partition cannot be removed or modified.However there is a way to remove or modify this CDFS partition.

Install Ubuntu directly from hard disk

Bharat Balegere — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:59:04 +0000

Ubuntu and its derivatives can be installed directly from the hard disk using Grub4Dos boot loader and iso emulation.This procedure is faster and does not require any secondary media such as CD or USB Flash Drives.

Back up WordPress to Dropbox, Sugarsync, Azure, S3 and more

Bharat Balegere — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:45:43 +0000

BackWPup is an impressive Wordpress Plugin which Backups your Wordpress installation and saves it in various cloud storage services such as Dropbox,SugarSync,Google Storage,Amazon S3,Azure,Rackspace Cloud,Email and Ftp.

5 Free Services to Save Files on the Web to your Cloud Storage

Bharat Balegere — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:27:07 +0000

5 Free Services and Webapps to save or download files on the internet directly to your free cloud storage account like Dropbox,SugarSync etc.These services are useful when downloads are restricted or if the download speed is low.Downloading the same file from your cloud storage account is fast.

Beginners Guide to Creating Custom Windows PE

Bharat Balegere — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:34:47 +0000

A guide for beginners to create a customized version Windows PE using MakePE3 without Windows Automated Installation Kit and the Windows Install DVD.All you need is a genuine copy of Windows 7 installed on your computer.

How I recovered Data from a faulty FreeAgent Drive

Bharat Balegere — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:58:05 +0000

Windows could not read a faulty Seagate FreeAgent Drive.However Linux could read the same faulty drive without any problems.All the data was recovered using Ubuntu 11.04.No special recovery software was used.