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 ...

Y ou may assume the command line is only for system admins or developers; but for any power user, it's a great tool if you ...

Windows comes with a built tool— Disk Management —that offers a complete solution to manage hard disks on the computer. You can use it to shrink volume, increase volume or portion size, create new ...

If you frequently work with the Command Prompt or PowerShell, you may need to copy files from or to an external drive, and many other times, you may need to display the drives within the console ...

Jack Wallen, writing for TechRepublic Premium, presents some of the more useful disk management command line tools found on just about every Linux distribution. Once you have even a basic ...

In my experience, Windows Storage Spaces tends to be reliable and typically behaves in a predictable manner. On a couple of occasions, however, I have encountered problems related to detached virtual ...

Sometimes the most effective way to clean up Windows is to just wipe your hard drive and start over with a fresh re-installation, and that process can be so long and tedious—unless you know the ...

DOS might seem like a relic now, but sometimes it's the only way to fix a problem that Windows seems ill-equipped to deal with -- like this one. A few weeks ago, I ran into a really weird problem on ...