The Read Only attribute in Windows 11/10 protects a file from being overwritten, modified, or deleted. As the name implies, when you set the Read Only attribute to a file or folder, you can only view ...

Partitioning your hard drive divides your disk into multiple independent sections. The partitions function as separate drives, so that if one gets corrupted, no other partition's files suffer any ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...

Disk partitioning–separating one physical hard drive into multiple independent volumes–can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches, and thanks to the Disk Management tool included with Windows ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

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 ...

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 ...