How to clean a Flash Drive, SD card, Hard Disk to fix Partition and Capacity Problems

Do you ever face a problem like drive can't be formatted, Disk is write Protected or show the wrong capacity. If your Pen Drive (USB Flash Drive), SD card or any drive isn't working quite right, "Cleaning" the drive and removing its partition is one possible solution. This trick will also delete partitions that can't be deleted with normal tools, like the graphical disk management disk partitioning tool built into windows. 

Warning : This process will completely wipe the entire disk you select, so be sure you back up any important files first. You should also be very careful to specify the correct disk, or you could accidentally wipe the wrong disk.

Launch a Command Prompt as Administrator

On Windows 10 or 8.1, you can simply right-click the Start button (or press Windows Key + X) and select “Command Prompt (Admin)”.

On Windows 7, you’ll need to locate the “Command Prompt” shortcut in the Start menu — you can just search for “Command Prompt” in the Start menu. Right-click the Command Prompt shortcut and select “Run as Administrator.”

Use Diskpart to Clean a Disk

Before continuing, be sure you've connected the Pen Drive (USB flash drive), SD card or any other drive. 

To launch the diskpart tool, type the "diskpart" command into the command prompt window and press Enter.

Now type "list disk" command into command prompt and press Enter to identify the number of the disk connected to your computer.

In the screenshot below, we can see that “Disk 0” is 238 GB in size and “Disk 1” is 14 GB in size. We know that our particular USB drive is 14 GB in size. This tells us that Disk 1 is the USB drive connected to the computer, and Disk 0 is the computer’s internal system drive. 

Once you know the disk number, select the disk by typing the following command, replacing # with the number of the disk you identified above.

Warning: Be very careful you specify the correct disk number! Enter the wrong disk number and you’ll end up blowing away everything on the wrong disk.

    select disk #

To completely wipe the selected disk's partition table, type the following command and press Enter

Warning: This will erase all data on the selected disk! Be sure you have backups of the important data before continuing!

    clean

You’ll see a “diskpart succeeded in cleaning the disk” if everything worked properly. You’re now done. Close the Command Prompt window to continue.

Video : 4 Ways to Format a USB Flash drive, Hard disk or SD card

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How to Install Apps Directly Into Your SD card (No Root)

If you are crazy about apps and need all the coolest apps on your android device but there is one problem, your device has little internal memory space that you can barely install few of your favorite apps. 

This problem is faced by most of Android users and there are some solution like either you can delete your existing apps to install new ones or set the install location of the apps to your SD card. 

How to Move Apps from Internal Storage to SD card

To move an app to the SD card, open the Settings screen, tap Applications, and select Manage Applications. Select the app you want to move and tap the Move to SD card button on its details screen.

Also See : How to Backup and Restore WhatsApp Chat, Media using Google Drive 

How To Install Apps Onto Your SD Card

By default, Android apps install to the internal storage but you can set the SD card as your default install location. This trick allows you to move almost any app to your SD card without rooting your Android device.  

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Here's what you will need to install Android Apps to SD card by default.  Android 2.2 or later, you need to use ADB or Android Debug Bridge, Utility included Google's Android SDK.

1. Enable USB Debugging : To enable USB debugging, open the settings screen, tap applications, tick the option allow installation from unknown sources and select Development. Tap the USB Debugging checkbox to enable it. 


 
This allows you to change the settings on your Android device from your computer. 

Also See : Best Android Apps to Backup and Restore Data


2. Install the Android SDK : You'll need to download and install Google's Android SDK on your computer. If you don't already have Oracle's Java JDK installed on your computer, you have to download and install it from here.

After installing both Oracle's Java JDK and Google's Android SDK, launch the SDK manager from your start menu. 

Now connect your Android device to your computer with USB cable. Windows should locate the device and install the appropriate drivers automatically. If it doesn’t, you may have to download and install the appropriate drivers from your Android device’s manufacturer. Do not mount the device after connecting it – just plug it in.

Also See : 6 Ways to Disable or Turn Off Automatic Updates in Windows 10



3. Using ADB : The ADB utility is included in the Android SDK Platform-tools package, select the package and click the install button to download and install it. 

Open a Windows Explorer window and navigate to the android-sdk\platform-tools folder. On Windows, you’ll find this folder at C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools by default. Check C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools if you’re using a 32-bit version of Windows.

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Launch a Command Prompt window in this folder by pressing and holding the Shift button, right-clicking in the folder, and selecting Open command window here.

Run the adb devices command and you should see your connected Android device.

Run the following command to set the default install location to your SD card:

    adb shell pm setInstallLocation 2

Also See : How to Manage Apps Permission on Android Mobile or Tablets

If you want to revert this change later and install apps to the internal storage by default, run this command:

    adb shell pm setInstallLocation 0

0 represents your device’s internal storage, and is the default. 2 represents the external storage, whether it’s an SD card or USB storage.

10 Important Google URL Every Google User Should Know

Google is much more than a search engine with services and tools like Gmail, Google Search, Google Plus, Google play and more. Here are some question that can answer by Google like What are my interest as determined by Google? What does Google know about the places I've visited recently? Where should I go if I have forgotten the administrator password for Google Apps? Where can I get a list of ads that I've ever clicked on Google?

Here is a list of some most important links that every Google user should know about. These links are hidden somewhere deep inside your Google account dashboard and they may reveal interesting details about you. Let's begins one by one. 


1. You can create a new Google account which will work with all Google services, using any email account from live.com, yahoo.com or any other email service provider. 

https://accounts.google.com/SignUpWithoutGmail

2. When you surf the internet pages, you see many Advertisements around the screen among which few are suitable for you while few not. By using this URL, you can tell Google about your interests, preference, your gender, age etc so that you always see the Ads of your choice or useful for you. 

https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/

3. You can download your entire Google data which includes contacts, bookmarks, drive, email, calendar, people, hangouts etc. You can archive all the data at safe place or download them on your computer so that you never loose anything. 

https://www.google.com/takeout

4. By using this url, you will get the history of your Google searches which include All History, web, images, news, shopping, Ads, video, Maps etc. 

https://history.google.com/

5. By using this URL, you can retrieve all the usernames and password stored by Google when you have typed in Google chrome or Android for logging into various websites. 

https://passwords.google.com

6. You can raise a DMCA complaint with Google against the website that have your content appearing on another websites like Blogger, Adsense, Google+ or YouTube. This wizard can also be used to remove websites from Google search results that are scraping your content.

https://support.google.com/legal 

7. You need to login to your Gmail account at least once before every 9 months otherwise Google may terminate your account according to their program policies. You can setup your main Gmail account as the trusted contact for your secondary accounts. Thus Google will keep sending you reminders every few months to login to your other accounts.

https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive

8. If you ever worried about that someone else is using your Google account. You can see activity report to see a log of every device that has recently been used to log into your Google account. In case, you find anything suspicious, there is a button to change your password immediately. You also get to know the IP Address and their approximate geographic location.

https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity

9. This url is very important for Google Apps users. If your Google account ever gets hacked, you can use this secret link to reset your admin password. You'll asked to verify your domain name by creating a CNAME record in your DNS.  

https://admin.google.com/domain.com/VerifyAdminAccountPasswordReset

Note : Just replace domain.com above with your domain name. 

10. You can compare prizes of different products, you are going to buy online. You can also use it as a price comparison search engine.  

http://www.google.com/shopping