A Recovery Partition on Windows computers is a special partition that is used for System Recovery purposes. You can view the Recovery Partition in the Disk Management tool on your Windows computer.

Increasing the size of the System Reserved Partition without third-party software requires the execution of the required commands in the Command Prompt. Therefore, this method is only for advanced ...

Q: After building a computer with a 500-gigabyte hard drive, I loaded Windows XP Professional. Dur- ing the installation, Windows asks if you want to partition your 500-GB hard drive into two 250-GB ...

Getting Windows 11 set up with everything you need isn't the easiest process. It's not exactly easy to backup all your files and programs in one go and have them ready when you set up a new PC.

DISKPART can be used to overcome the limitations of the Disk management tool. It offers several commands to manage your disks and in this article we shall discuss about the most popular ones. This ...

I'm trying to find a command line utility that will allow me to change Partition ID/Type within a batch script under Windows XP.<BR><BR>For example: I have a disk with two formatted NTFS partitions, ...

I run Windows 11 on most of my devices these days because I use a few creative programs daily that don't have a Linux alternative. That wasn't always the case, though, and for many years, I ...

Last month, I discussed installing Windows 10 IoT Preview on the Raspberry Pi 2. The process entailed flashing a bootable image of Windows 10 onto an SD Card. Because Windows 10 Internet of Things is ...

Lack of access to your data in a new operating system may be one of the most severe impediments for doing an OS migration. There is little personal incentive for users to switch to a system that can't ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Microsoft righted an age-old “wrong” (at least for those who geek out on disk formatting) earlier this week. With its latest Windows 11 Insider Canary Preview Build (via The Verge), the company ...