computer management

Change Drive Letters – Assign a New Drive Letter

March 8, 2011

In Windows you can change drive letters on a drive, a partition, or a volume, as long as it is not holding your system boot files. In this tutorial I will show you how to change drive letters on a hard drive by accessing Disk management. For example you might have two hard drives installed [...]

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Windows Seven Tips – Add Administrative Tools to the Start Menu

May 31, 2010

Windows 7 operating system comes with several in-built Administrative tools for managing hard drive partitions, adjusting firewall settings, managing schedules tasks, starting and stopping system services and so on. The default way to access these tools is through a link present in the “System and Security” section of the Control Panel. Another way to access [...]

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How to Shrink a Partition on Your Hard Drive

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If you have your hard drive partitioned and want to change the size of the partitions or the amount of partitions you have on your computer, you can. It is still going to wipe your data but if you backup your files to the main partition just while you are shrinking the other partition then [...]

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