Wednesday, April 9, 2014

FAT 32 to NTFS Conversion

Go to Computer, and note the name of the drive whose file system you wish to convert.
Click on Start.
Type cmd in the search bar if you use Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows Vista. If you use Windows XP, click on Run and then execute cmd.
Execute "chkdsk h: /f " (without quotes) where H is the letter of the drive to undergo conversion. This checks the drive for errors and fixes them automatically.
Execute "Convert H: /FS:NTFS" (without quotes). H is again the letter of the drive to be converted.
The command prompt will start the conversion process and after a few minutes, CMD will say that conversion was successful.
You can check it in the properties of the drive through right click<Properties.

2)
First connect USB device to your computer.Open my computer right click and select properties.
In the properties choose hardware. In the hardware choose Device Manager.
How to convert USB flash drive from FAT32 to NTFS (copy large files to USB  Pen Drive) 2
In the device manager select disk drives. Here you have to choose your USB device.
Right click on the USB drive and choose properties and click on the policies tab.
How to convert USB flash drive from FAT32 to NTFS (copy large files to USB  Pen Drive) 3
Here you will see two options Optimize for Quick Removal and Optimize for Performance.
Select “Optimize for Performance” and click OK.
Now Format your pen drive. This can be done by right click on the drive and choose ‘Format’.
Choose ‘formatting’ option, early it will be ‘FAT32’ now change it to ‘NTFS’
How to convert USB flash drive from FAT32 to NTFS (copy large files to USB  Pen Drive) 5
Select ‘Quick Format’ and press ‘Start’.

block a website using the Hosts file

hosts file location.
Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
Windows 2000  C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

#Open the hosts file using Notepad or other plain text editor.
#Find the line 127.0.0.1 localhost
# To block, for example, the website facebook.com, add this text under 127.0.0.1 localhost:
   127.0.0.1 facebook.com
#Save and close the Hosts file.
# Reboot your computer to apply the changes.
#Try to open www.facebook.com into a browser.

 Make a backup of the hosts file and put it somewhere safe, in case you mess up.