Windows XP tips and tricks

Hide Any Drive In your PC with 3 easy Steps

Most of you must have wondered if there exists a way without using software to Hide A Drive completely so that it cannot be viewed or accessed without unlocking it. Well for those who have and who haven’t yet, here is a easiest method on How To Hide Any Drive In Just 3 Steps.

Here we go, follow these 3 simple steps:
01. Go to Start –> Run or use Win+R keys and type “cmd” and press Ok.
02. This will open Command Prompt for you. Now type “diskpart” and press Enter:
Once in Diskpart type “list volume” and press Enter:
This will list all the partitions in your system.
Enter The Following Command
“select volume 10″.
Remember to change 10 with the volume number of your partition you want to hide and press Enter:
03. Now as in my example I am hiding drive G: so my last command is “remove letter G” and then press Enter:
All done. Now open your computer and see that drive is made hidden
Now to make a drive Unhidden
Follow first 2 steps as such but in step 3 instead of remove letter G use “assign letter G”
for Vista/windows 7
The commands becomes slightly different here:”assign letter=G”
You have successfully unlocked the Hidden Drive.

How To Reinstall Windows Without Losing Anything

You can use this method as often as you like when you need to repair something that had gotten corrupted and you don’t want to do a clean install.
This is better than doing a windows repair install from the CD because doing that can cause changes to settings and even make it so you can’t get updates anymore from Microsoft update site because of the ’silent install’ they did a year or so ago (unless you rereg some dll files).
1- Start WindowsXP
2- Go to the location of your source files
3- Run WINNT32 /unattend
For example, D:\I386\winnt32 /unattend ( copy & paste this command into the RUN box, then press ENTER ) Your computer will do the rest.
OR
Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt. or start click run and type cmd and click inter
Copy & paste > D:\I386\winnt32 /unattend (notice the space between 32 and / )
Press Enter. If you are reinstalling windows from CD then change D: drive to CD location something like E:  G:
If you have i386 on your drive, you can replace D: ( if D: is your CD drive ) with the location of it. (be sure it’s the full i386 though)

D: is the driver letter where your windows XP CD is

if D:\I386\winnt32 /unattend doesn’t work then try : d:\winnt32 /unattend

This way, you will reinstall Windows without Losing Anything.

Checking your Antivirus Performance

Copy and paste the code below into notepad
X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
(The text should be in one line.)
Save file as “checkantivirus.com” excluding quotation-marks (make sure it is saved in extention . com)
A few seconds after saving this file, your Anti-Virus should come with the message that this file is infected with virus asking permission for its deletion/clean.
*** This file is secure and it’s not going to infect your computer in whatever way. It is a standard text developed by the European Institute for Computer Anti-virus Research (EICAR). Every Anti-Virus is programmed to load this file as a virus.***
If your Anti-Virus will not detect this file as a virus, a program will appear as DOS window with this text EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE.
If this happens then you should probably find some other Anti-Virus up to date as you are

Not fully protected.

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