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 ...

To create a System Repair Disc in Windows 11/10, follow these steps: Search for recdisc in the Taskbar search box. Click on the individual search result. Insert your disc into your computer.

In the April, 2010, issue of PC World, and back in December here at the old Hassle-Free PC Blog, I explained how Windows 7 users can use built-in tools to create a system-repair disc–an ...

Defining key R-words: Repair, Restore, Recovery, and Reset. Before we dig into the details, it’s important to define these “R-words” so that what Microsoft is doing with Windows 11 backup ...

Ventoy works through what can only be called a “magnificent trick.” Given a small (32MB) partition on a disk drive, it creates a bootable EFI partition that gets the PC boot process started.

Even in Windows 10, you can still create a Repair Disc on DVD, if you have the means — that is, a DVD burner and blank media. To do so, you must dig into Control Panel. Here’s how: ...

Windows 11 displayed a warning icon for my laptop's hard disk. To be totally honest with you, I had never seen this particular warning before, but I assumed that it meant that the machine's hard ...

Since then, Microsoft has claimed to have rectified the Windows 11 disk performance issues. ... a December fix was applied to the "USN journal," which sounds same or quite similar.

How to repair thumbnail cache by enabling feature on Windows 11 The feature is probably turned off if you do not see thumbnails on File Explorer. As such, the first thing you want to do is to ...

It won't cure all of your Mac's ills, but a quick and easy first step toward bringing a sluggish Mac back to health is using OS X's Disk Utility to repair disk permissions.