Windows 7 “Pin to taskbar” feature it of great significance. It allows you to pin any application to the taskbar. Pinning an external drive thus, sounds as simple as dragging and dropping the drive folder onto the taskbar. Try it out!

Windows 7 will pin the drive in the Windows Explorer (considering it a folder). However, if you want to actually pin the external drive to taskbar, follow the steps below:

1. Create a new text document on the desktop (Right-click desktop and select New > Text Document).
2. Rename the document to your system’s external drive with .exe extension.
3. Confirm your act and right-click the newly created executable select Pin to Taskbar.
4. Right-click the pinned executable icon (to view the jump-list); right-click the name of file (text document) and select Properties.
5. Under the “Shortcut” tab, enter the name of external drive in Target field as (G:\ or H:\) and type in G: or H: in Start in field.
6. Click on Change Icon to choose the icon for a better visual identification.
7. The external drive is thus pinned to your taskbar;  easily access it from the taskbar.

You can use this neat trick to pin any folder to the taskbar.

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