Changing Letters Of Your Drives

If in case you want to assign a particular letter for you drive or just wanna make your drive and data more personal, then here is simple process you need to follow.
Firstly go on to Start –> Settings –> Control Panel –> Administrative Tools –> Computer Management.
In the Computer Management go to Disk Management.

Changing Drive Letters of Your Hard Drive

1. Select the Drive and Right Click on it and Select “Change Drive Letter And Paths“
2. Click on “Change” and Select the Drive letter name and click ok, and you are done.

Changing Drive Letters of any Removable Disk

1. Similarly as we did for Hard Drive, we do it for removable drives. We just need to click on right hand side panel where it is written CD-ROM / DVD-ROM.
2. Follow the same procedure to change the Drive Letter.

P.S. Drive Letter cannot be changed for your Booting drive.

How to Hide your Hard disk partition

Sometimes it happens that you share computer with your friend and don’t want them to know what data you have in hard drives. You can use some software to encrypt or hide the data, but what in case if you want to get away from this hassles and hide your full drive. Well to do so you just need to make changes in your group policy. Here’s what you need to do.

• Go to Start –> Run –> gpedit.msc
• Go to User Configuration –> Administration Template –> Windows Components –> Windows Explorer
• now on the right side, look for the policy that says, “Hide these specific drives in my computer” and go to Properties
• Enable it and then select the drives you wan to hide
• Click Ok ,and you are done

P.S. : - This method will only hide a drive in my computer, and other users can access it by other means like via Run command, Dos, Shortcuts, and even computer management.

Customize Quick Access Toolbar in Word 2007

Quick Access toolbar is added in Word 2007 so as to add commands you use again and again. By default Save, Undo and Redo buttons are already added. You can customize this toolbar and add more buttons of your use. To do so just go to your Command you want to add, Right click it and select “Add to quick access toolbar“. If you want to remove it, go to the quick bar and right click on it again, select “Remove from quick access toolbar“. Also you add and delete some more quick commands available drop down menu, and all the commands can be accessed by selecting the more commands options. Apart from that you can also access it by Office Button –> Word Options –> Customize.

Apart from that this quick access toolbar can be shown below the ribbon. I personally feel that if you have commands more than around 25, then you should go for the toolbar below the ribbon, else this toolbar is perfectly fixed above the ribbon. If you want to customize it more, and want to have a more control over the toolbar, just go to the customize option and explore more.

Resize, Copy or Move Partitions without Formatting

One of our readers says, My hard disk has already 4 partitions. All partitions have free space above fifteen GB. My question is How to partition a drive without formating in XP?.

Well the answer to this question was not easy, I have been trying number of softwares for last two days, but none provided me great results, each had its own limitations. Finally I came across a software that is extremely user friendly, and resizes, moves or copy the partitions. Acronis Disk Director is a software that does it all, and supports FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS and some more. I can say that you need not be an expert to use this software, and its lightning fast. Some of the key features are :-

• Split one partition into two and leave your data intact
• Merge two partitions into one and leave your data untouched, even if file systems on the partitions are different
• Explore partition data before performing partitioning operations
• Troubleshoot issues and reasons for failure by viewing logs
• Resize, copy, and move partitions without losing data
• Create and delete partitions of any type
• Format partitions
• Automatically optimize hard disk space usage
• Convert FAT16 <=> FAT32, Linux Ext2 <=> Ext3 partitions without losing data
• Change cluster size automatically or manually
• Browse through the detailed information about all hard disks, partitions and file systems
• Hide or make visible partitions of any type
• Preview changes made in partition layout before applying them to disk
• Support large disks over 180 Gb

The only drawback is, this software is not for free. I tested the trial version, and the results were pleasing. You need to shed 50$ to get the full version, and to apply the changes, but if you desperately need a software like this, and you are ready to shed money, you can go for it.
Else, if you need to partition your drive, you need to take a backup, and then format and create partitions.