Today i’m going to show you how to install and setup a SATA Hard Drive on a desktop PC. (Parts needed is in picture above)

Always remember to discharge yourself before touching the HDD. This is done by touching the metal inside the case with you hands, as showed in the picture below

These are the things you will need:

• Screwdriver to screw the side of your case off/on
• SATA Cable
• Molex to SATA Converter [Only needed if no SATA Power Cable is available]
• A SATA Hard Drive
• A Desktop PC (duh!)

Step 1. Installing the Hard Drive into the case.
1. Take out all wires and cables from the PC. Also hit the power button located on the back of the PC where the PSU is. Unplug the mains lead from the supply.

2. Screw the side panel of the pc

3. Connect your SATA Cable to the Motherboard

4. If needed connect your Molex to SATA converter

5. Put the harddrive into one of the free slots and connect the SATA power cable and the SATA Cable (Red)

6. Put the side panel on again, and screw in the screws

7. Connect all your cables to your PC again

Step 2. Checking if it’s working
1. Turn on your PC

2. Go into your BIOS, and look if it shows the newly installed Hard Drive along with the rest of the system info

Step 3. Formatting and Using the Hard Drive
1. Click start menu ==> Right click Computer in the right panel ==> Click “Manage”

2. Enter the “Disk Management” (Look in the left pane)

3. You should now be able to see the Hard Drive in there as Unallocated space

4. Right Click the Bar in the bottom and click “New Simple Volume”

5. Follow the wizard, choose a name, amount of space the partion should have and the Drive letter.

6. Now you can see your new Hard drive in “Computer”

(New HDD would be M: in this case)

It not only hides the folder, but hide all files… and try opening it without entering password, it’l take you to the control panel. Also, if you want to store files on your Pen-Drive, you can use this script. No Software Required. Incase you delete your Locker file (just in case), then you can make a new one (but with the same password) and open it from that. Alternatively, you can keep this locker file somewhere else, and when you want to open your folder, only then bring it back to that place.

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This will show you how to utilize the GMail Drive 8GB of storage as local storage in Windows Explorer. Be aware that support for this tool may suspend at any time if Google decides to block its use. Also prepare to reboot your system. And sadly its is not 64-bit compatible.

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In Windows vista and 7, you can add your desired application shortcuts in Desktop context menu (the menu which appears when you right-click).

To add these useful shortcuts, just download following zip file, extract it and then run the .REG file:

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One feature that was sadly lacking in Windows before Windows 7 was the ability to burn DVD and CD’s directly from ISO images. This became a huge frustration whenever Microsoft released a beta or release candidate operating system to the public, since it would force you  to insall a third party utility to burn the ISO image to disk. Thankfully, Microsoft has now made burning ISOs a built-in feature of Windows 7.

To launch the tool all you need to do is right-click on the ISO image file you want to burn and then click on the “Burn disc image” option.

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