Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

Resizing partitions via a command line doesn't have to be complicated.

As dynamic disks provide more superiorities than basic, it is a justification that dynamic volumes are widely used. But the disk management under Windows is limited, such as users are not able to ...

So the main fileserver at one of our client's is getting upgraded. We are going to step up the RAID array from 36 gig drives to 73, this will give us lots of free space. Now, this is all on a basic ...

In the Disk Management utility native to Windows 11/10, you can create new, resize, and extend partitions. In this post, we take a look at why all the options are greyed out or not available and as ...

Hey guys. I have a 500 gig disk in my W7 setup that in disk management (pic attached) are showing an extra 1 and 2 mb partition at the end of the drive. If I try to extend into those partitions, disk ...

When a hard drive is installed in a computer, it must be partitioned before you can format and use it. Partitioning a drive is when you divide the total storage of a drive into different pieces. These ...

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, ...

These techniques will work, though, with Windows 2000, 2003, and the upcoming Vista. Creating and formatting a partition in Windows Before you can partition a hard drive in Windows, you must have ...