This has been bugging me from quite some time and I feel like there must be a way but google has proven fruitless. I know I can do a rescan from diskpart, but I also need the ability to run the ...

Clearly one of the best features of disk arrays is that they can continue working even when a disk has failed. One of the problems, however, is that you might not notice when a disk fails, and thus, ...

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 ...

You can use the following command line tools to retrieve the make and model of your hard drives without the need to open up your system. Note: You may need to install ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mac users: You already know how to make an encrypted disk image with Disk Utility, but you can also script out this action at the command line. To encrypt a folder ...

Disk Management and the DISKPART utility on Windows 11 and Windows 10 are useful tools for managing their disk space allocation and more. But some users are reporting ...

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 ...

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 ...