Unlike internal hard drives, most external hard drives come already partitioned and formatted. However, if you need multiple partitions for your business data, you may need to remove or shrink the ...

Toshiba Satellites shipped with Windows Vista or Windows 7 include a hidden partition on the hard drive that contains software used to format the drive or restore the operating system to its original ...

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 ...

All this is assuming you can still boot into Windows 11/10 in a regular way. If you cannot, the only way is to use a bootable USB drive. You can then use the advanced recovery. Reset Windows Format ...

You can partition a hard drive on a computer to create multiple drive letters with a single drive. You can use the Disk Management utility in Windows to partition a drive by shrinking an existing ...

Anil Sood had three apparently unusable partitions on his laptop before upgrading to Windows 10. Now he has four. Can he make use of this seemingly wasted space? All of those partitions, none of which ...

I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...

Micromat Inc., developer of the popular disk repair utility TechTool Pro, on Thursday released DiskStudio, which enables you to partition your hard drive without having to reformat it. Disk Studio can ...

USB flash drives (a.k.a. “thumb” drives) may seem passé in a world where AirDrop and cloud storage solve the file-transfer problem. But they’re still quite useful for handing over files to another ...