Recovering unallocated space of a USB flash drive.

Today I played with the latest SUSE Linux Live. I had not have a DVD drive and used USB flash drive instead. I wanted to reformat my Recovering unallocated space of a USB flash drive.

Today I played with the latest SUSE Linux Live. I had not have a DVD drive and used USB flash drive instead. I wanted to reformat my flash drive, but suddenly found it that it had not been possible. The most of the disk space had been unallocated, and my Windows 8 did not allow me to use it.

but suddenly found it that it had not been possible. The most of the disk space had been unallocated, and my Windows 8 did not allow me to use it.

Unfortunately Windows does not support Fdisk anymore. But there is another good command line tool to solve this problem. The tool’s name is DiskPart. I would say it is the next generation of Fdisk tool. DiskPart provides you information about your partitions and volumes, allows you to delete and create partitions, extend NTFS volumes, etc.

Let’s remove unallocated space. First of all run Windows command line and type diskpart in the command prompt. Windows will ask you for Administrator permissions to run the tool. Then run list disk command to find your USB flash disk’s number. It should be the same as disk’s number in Computer Management tool. It was 1 in my case. Next you should chose the disk to work with. Type select disk  command, e.g. select disk 1. The next step is to clean all volumes and partitions on the disk. Use clean command to do that. The last step is to create a primary partition. You can do that using create partition primary command. That’s all. You should be able to format your flash disk now.

This is how I removed unallocated space on my machine:

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.2.9200

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On computer: COMPUTER

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          298 GB      0 B
  Disk 1    Online         7509 MB  6619 MB

DISKPART> select disk 1

Disk 1 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> clean

DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

DISKPART> create partition primary

DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.

DISKPART> exit

Price Tree : Online shopping site price comparison and tracking tool

As all we know, price of products change everyday in online shopping sites like amazon, flipkart. We have to manually check change of the product price everyday and price of the same product in different online shopping website to get best possible rate. Hereafter we don't have to check manually.

Pricetree( http://www.pricetree.com/) made it easy for us. Price tree offers below features

Price Drop Alert : If we subscribe by giving email address for particular product, we get price drop alert in emails

Price Comparison: when we are in product page, we will get price of the that product in all other online shopping sites along with name of the product and image of the product

Price History : When we are in the product page, we can we how the product price changed over time 

Coupons : Most importantly we will get all the available coupons for the product automatically.

What are you waiting for, add the chrome extension to your browser now.

Price tree chrome extension

Check the youtube video of the price tree.

Must Have Android Apps for your Smartphone

Google Fit :  I rank Google fit as no 1 must have app for android phones. By just installing it, you can track your walking, running and cycling. Earlier Google had application called Google Tracks, in which you have to click on track before starting activity. In Google Fit, You don't have to click any button to track your activities, just install app and keep it in your pocket. You can access the data in browser also. See some of the reports screenshots below.



Newshunt: Newshunt is old app in the app market. It will brings us digital newspaper from all the Indian languages. Now Newshunt started with selling eBooks on the same app. Specialty of this Newshunt books is you can buy book by paying money from y our mobile currency. It means you don't have to use your credit card or debit card details for buying books. It's worth to mention that books are very cheap compare to other sites.Along with books and instant news, you get live cricket score.

MX Player
MX player is must app for Android phones. It plays almost all kinds of videos. Along with videos, you can play music too. You can lock the video when video is playing. You can alter volume and brightness by touch.

Wunderlist: Wunderlist is best to do app. Specialty is wunderlist is stand alone app. It will get sync whenever you connect to internet. It is available in web, desktop and app.It's best app to maintain personal to do list.

Thank you for reading. Please comment your views.

Control Smartphone from Desktop

As we all know, we can transfer files between desktop and smartphone using USB cable and Bluetooth.

Have you ever imagined monitoring your smartphone from desktop?. If your answer is no, don't worry because it's already reality. Now it's more than just transferring files, We can get the smartphone notifications in Desktop.No not only just notifications, you can send messages, make calls what not. More importantly, We can use whatsapp on Desktop. Yes you read it right, you can chat in whatsapp on Desktop without installing Bluestacks.

You can do all this by downloading Airdroid in your smartphone and desktop. Along with controlling mobile from desktop, you can transfer files very fast.


Transfer files between pc to smartphone.
You can transfer images, music, videos and documents between smartphone, tablet and desktop in 40x faster speed than bluetooth using an app called SHAREit. SHAREit lets you transfer files between cross platform and different device SHAREit built by lenovo use WIFI network to send files in seconds.