Formatting your hard drive is an important step in setting up your computer. It clears all the data off the disk so that you can start fresh. DiskPart is a powerful command-line tool that allows you ...

Launching the DiskPart is not a big task. You are just required to open the Windows command terminals, either the Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell with the administrative rights. In this ...

Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume. The above error message prevents users from deleting a particular ...

On purchasing a brand new computer, the hard drive usually has a single partition. However, you may need multiple partitions to organize your data and even protect it from data loss. You can view ...

I tried (unsuccessfully) turning my sony vaio into a hackintosh and as a result I accidentally deleted/moved my recovery partition. I've since found out that you can't actually delete said partition, ...

There are lots of reasons why you might want to partition your Mac. Perhaps you want to partition your Mac to run Windows, or maybe you want to install Mojave beta on a partition, so that you can run ...

Simply put, making an ISO image of a hard drive is to create a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Nowadays, as computing technology develops, users have many ways to image a hard drive ...

The next step is to delete the OEM partition between the C: volume and your unallocated space. You'll need to use an old command-line tool for that. In Part 1, I showed you how to replace a hard drive ...

Using diskpart, I deleted a partition (volume) on a hard drive. That leaves me with C: and unallocated space which was once . <BR><BR>Reinstalling XP does not format the drive and the reinstallation ...

When you connect a mechanical hard drive (HDD), solid-state drive (SSD), or external USB storage to Windows 10, the system usually sets it up automatically. However, there are times when the new drive ...

When we talk about “drives” labeled C:, D:, and so forth, we’re actually talking about partitions, sections of the physical drive. Every hard drive in use has at least one partition. You can shrink ...