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 ...

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 ...

The Diskpart command in Vista now lets you shrink a volume by using the Shrink subcommand, see here for details. This can be useful if you have only one hard disk and a C: drive that fills the disk, ...

A colleague told me he recently tried using the Disk Management snap-in to convert a basic disk to dynamic on a computer running Windows Server 2003 SP2. When he ...

Check your USB drive or SD card for a lock switch, and ensure it's set to write. Clear the read-only box in a file's properties to remove write protection from individual files. Use the diskpart ...

While running the DiskPart on your computer, if you get an error saying DiskPart has encountered an error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check), here is how you can ...

Though most business users rarely use it, Microsoft Windows has a text-based Command Line interface in addition to the usual graphical user interface of buttons, windows and menus. Most often, ...

I tried (unsuccessfully) turning my sony vaio into a hackintosh and as a result I accidentally deleted/moved my recovery partition. I've since found out that you can't actually delete said partition, ...

In Server 2012, when creating a new volume using DISKPART is it possible to specify the block size? There's an option for this in the Disk Management GUI, but this is a Core installation and I need to ...