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.

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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.

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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

How to Enable Facial Recognition in Your Google Photos

Facial recognition is one of the most popular features on Google Photos, Facebook Photos, Apple Photos, which recognize face and automatically arrange your photos based on people's faces. Facial recognition is available inside Android, iPhone, iPad and the web version of Google Photos. If you are not seeing it in your account yet, because your accessing Photos from outside the United States. 

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A footnote on the Google Photos website says that “Facial recognition" feature isn’t available in all countries, probably due to privacy laws, but there’s a simple trick that will help you bring face detection in your Google Photos. 

Also See : Best apps to protect or lock photos on Your iOS 

How to Enable Facial Recognition in Your Google Photos

• Go to your Android phone settings, select “Apps”, then select “Photos” under the “Downloaded” section and click the “Clear Data” button to reset your Google Photos app.

• Go to the Google Play store and download Tunnel Bear or Hola or any of your favorite VPN apps.
• Also See : Best Camera Apps for Android  

• Open the VPN app and connect. It will essentially trick Photos into thinking that you are connecting from US, a country that is supported by Google Photos for facial recognition.

• Open the Google Photos app, scroll past the wizard screen and then under Settings, enable the option that says “Group Similar Faces – Auto Group photos by matching faces.”

Also See : How to manage App permission on Android Mobile or Tablets

Now you can uninstall or disable the VPN app, launch Google Photos again and tap the blue search button. You should see a list of faces that Google Photos was able to detect from your uploaded photos. And the feature will automatically become available on photos.google.com as well.

How to Expand Your Phone Storage with Wireless USB stick

If your smartphone or tablet is running low on storage for your apps, photos, videos, music and other files, perhaps you have received an error message suggesting you have insufficient storage available. When your mobile phone has limited storage and there's no option to add an external SD card. 

To overcome this situation, you have clouded based services like Dropbox or Google Drive that add virtually unlimited storage to your phone but you've to be connected to the Internet to access your files. Another solution for this problem is Use a wireless USB stick from Sandisk that adds storage to your phones and tablets much like a regular USB drive. 

Also See : How to Share Large files over the Internet

How to use Sandisk wireless USB stick

1. Plug the USB device into your laptop or desktop computer and let it charge for about an hour or two.
2. Once the device is charged, you tap the little power button on the stick to turn it on.
3. Now install the Sandisk connect app on your mobile phone and go to WiFi settings on your mobile phone and connect to the WiFi hotspot created by the USB stick.

 Advantage of using Sandisk wireless USB stick

1. You can assess content of the USB drive like stream audio, video files, photos, PDF Files and other document.
2. You can easily transfer files between the phone and the wireless drive. 

Also See : Best Apps to transfer large files between Android and PC using WiFi
3. You have an option to add a USB WiFi password to prevent other nearby devices from connecting the USB stick.
4. Sandisk Connect USB stick requires no Internet connection.
5. Multiple devices can connect to the same USB drive over WiFi.
6. Act as a bridge between the iOS and Android device.
7. Sandisk connect is compatible with both Android and iOS devices and is available in various capacities from 16GB TO 128 GB.

You can buy Sandisk wireless USB stick from Flipkart or Amazon. 
 

How to Find Your WiFi Network Password

Your computer is connected to WiFi network and you forget the WiFi password that you had earlier used to connect to this particular WiFi network. Whether you've misplaced your home network's password or you're visiting someone house and don't want to ask them for the password. Maybe you forget the password or maybe the network administrator entered it directly without revealing the actual password to you. You would now like to connect a second device like your mobile phone, laptop, Tablet to the same WiFi network but how do you find out the WiFi Security Key.

You can either send a password request to the WiFi admin or you can retrieve the saved password with some easy steps given below.

Find the Default Password Printed on the Router

Modern WiFi routers offered by many Internet Service Providers comes with a default WiFi network name and password. To find default password, just examine your WiFi router and see a sticker somewhere on it that contain both the Network Name (SSID) and Wireless Security Key (Password).

Also See : How to Create a WiFi Hotspot in Windows 10

Find the WiFi Password on Windows

To look up a WiFi network password on Windows, open the Control Panel and Click "View network status and tasks" under Network and Internet. Click the name of the current Wi-Fi connection to the right of “Connections”. 

Click the “Wireless Properties”  button in the Wi-Fi Status window that appears. 

Click the “Security” tab and activate the “Show characters” checkbox to view the hidden password.

You can also use Command Prompt to retrieve your WiFi network Password. Open the command prompt in administrator mode. Type “cmd” in the Run box, right-click the command prompt icon and choose Run as Administrator. Now enter the following command and hit enter to see the WiFi password.

netsh wlan show profile name=digital adda key=clear

Remember to replace digital adda with the name of your Network name or Wireless SSID. The password will show up under the Security Setting section > key content.
 
If you would only like to see the password and not the other information, use the findstr command:
netsh wlan show profile name=digital adda key=clear | findstr Key


Also See : How to access Your Router if You forget the Password

Find the Password on a Mac

Both Windows and Mac allows you to view the current network WiFi password, however mobile devices like Android smartphones and Apple's iPhone and iPads don't allow you to view your Current WiFi network password.

To find the Wi-Fi password on your Mac, press Command+Space to open the Spotlight search dialog, type “Keychain Access” without the quotes, and press Enter to launch the Keychain Access app.

Locate the name of your Wi-Fi network in the list, click it, and then click the “info” button — it looks like an “i” — at the bottom of the window.

Click the “Show Password” checkbox in the window that appears. You’ll have to enter your username and password to gain access to the password. You’ll need an administrator account for this.Click the “Show Password” checkbox in the window that appears. You’ll have to enter your username and password to gain access to the password. You’ll need an administrator account for this.

You can also use Terminal to retrieve WiFi network password. Open Spotlight (Cmd+Space) and type terminal to open the Terminal window. At the command line, enter the following command (replace baatkar with your WiFi name), then enter your Mac username and password to access the OS X keychain and the Wi-FI network password would be displayed on the screen in plain text.

security find-generic-password -wa baatkar

Find the WiFi Password on Linux

Open the terminal and enter the followind command (replace baatkar with your WiFi network name). The value of the field psk is your WiFi password.

sudo cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/baatkar | grep psk=


If you don’t know the network name, use the following command.

sudo grep psk= /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/*

Start WLAN AutoConfig 

If you are using this technique to retrieve the WiFi password on a Windows computer but getting an error that says – “The Wireless AutoConfig Service (wlansvc) is not running” – here’s a simple fix:

Click the Windows Start button and type “services.msc” in the Run box to access Windows Services. Here go to the WLAN Autoconfig service and make sure that the status is Running. Else right-click the WLAN AutoConfig service, select Properties and go to Dependencies. Check all the dependencies to make sure they are all running.

Reset Your Router to its Default WiFi Password

If you don't find your WiFi network password and don't have access to your router's web interface, You can reset your router and force it to use the default WiFi password printed on the router once again.

Look for a small “reset” button on the router. It’s often a pinhole button you’ll have to press with a bent paperclip or a similarly small object. Press the button down for ten seconds or so and your router’s settings will be completely erased and reset to their defaults. The Wi-Fi network name and password will be restored to the default ones on the router.

How to Prevent Blogger from redirecting to Country Specific Domains

Google redirects their Blogger blogs to country specific domain extension since 2012. For Example open socialmedialoud.blogspot.com in your web browser, you will be redirected to socialmedialoud.blogspot.in if you are located in India or socialmedialoud.blogspot.fr if you are accessing the blog from France. Blog redirection only occurs if you are on a blogspot domain and country specific redirection not apply to custom domains. 
From my blog traffic log, it is sure that country specific redirection in Blogger is live in at least 15 countries. They are Argentina (blogspot.com.ar), Australia (blogspot.com.au), Brazil (blogspot.br), Canada (blogspot.ca), Germany (blogspot.de), India (blogspot.in), Italy (blogspot.it), France (blogspot.fr), Japan (blogspot.jp), Mexico (blogspot.mx), Portugal (blogspot.pt), Spanish (blogspot.cl), Sweden (blogspot.se)

 
To avoid country specific redirection in your Blogger blog, follow these simple steps given below.  

Login to Blogger account. Click on Template > Edit HTML > Press Ctrl + F to find <head> and press enter. Now copy one script from given below and paste it after the <head> and click on "save template". Now your Blogger Blog will always serve with the blogspot.com URL.
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<script type="text/javascript">
 
  /* Get the full URL of the current blogger page */
  var blog = document.location.href.toLowerCase();

  /* Do not redirect if the domain is .com already */
  if (!blog.match(/\.blogspot\.com/)) {

    /* Replace the country TLD with .com and ncr switch */
    blog = blog.replace(/\.blogspot\..*?\//, ".blogspot.com/ncr/");

    /* Redirect to the new .com URL in the current tab */
    window.location.replace(blog);
  }
 </script>

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<script type="text/javascript">
      var blog = document.location.hostname.split(".");
      if (blog[blog.length - 1] != "com") {
      var ncr = "http://" + blog[0] + ".blogspot.com/ncr";
      window.location.replace(ncr + document.location.pathname);   
      }
    </script>
 
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<script type="text/javascript">
var blog = document.location.hostname;
var slug = document.location.pathname;
var ctld = blog.substr(blog.lastIndexOf("."));
if (ctld != ".com") {
var ncr = "http://" + blog.substr(0, blog.indexOf("."));
ncr += ".blogspot.com/ncr" + slug;
window.location.replace(ncr);
}
</script>
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