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How to partition C drive in Windows 10 without formatting
I have seen a couple of computers where the Primary partition – C Drive, has extra storage space. Some computers do not have partition at […]
How to Merge or Delete an OEM Partition in Windows 10
If you have noticed in Disk Management, a part of your hard drive says Healthy (OEM partition), and occupies space in GBs, then it is […]
Windows can’t stop your Generic volume device because a program is still using it
The problem with external storage devices is the fact that removing them directly is dangerous. Because without using the Safely Remove Hardware feature, taking out a USB […]
Unknown Not Initialized – Can’t initialize disk in Windows 10
If you have installed a new internal or external hard drive or SSD, and its status in the left side of the Disk Management Tool […]
DiskPart has encountered an error: Access is denied
DiskPart is a useful utility when it comes to managing the disks on a computer. Even if the GUI based disk management tools on the […]
Fix Diskpart failed to clear disk attributes error on Windows 10
The Diskpart Tool is a command line tool that can be used to manage partitions in a Windows system. It offers all the functions of […]
There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation
When trying to create a new partition or shrink a volume or extend a volume using the Disk Management Utility, you may encounter an error […]
How to delete a Volume or Drive Partition in Windows 10
In order to store data in an organized manner, operating systems now give you a feature to create separate partitions out of your HDD or […]
Troubleshooting common Disk Management error messages
Disk errors are one of the most common errors on Windows 10. It is also scary because all our data are on the disk drives, […]
Windows 10 Disk Management not working
Windows 10 Disk Management tool is an inbuilt feature which offers a user interface to manage disk partitions to administrators of the PC. Many a time […]
Windows cannot be installed to this disk, The selected disk is of the GPT partition style
If while installing Windows 10 on your computer, you receive Windows cannot be installed to this disk, The selected disk is of the GPT partition […]
We couldn’t update the system reserved partition
Installing Windows 10 upgrades or updates may not go as smoothly as planned. Chances are, you’ve come across an error that says Windows 10 couldn’t […]
How to create a Virtual Hard Disk on Windows 10
In Windows 10, you can create, use, attach & manipulate Virtual Hard Disk Files (VHD’s) as though they are real disks. This allows Virtual PC […]
ChkDsk runs at every startup? Cancel Check Disk in Windows 10
The Check Disk Utility or Chkdsk.exe in Windows 10/8/7 and Windows Vista is used to check for errors in the disk media and in the file […]
Selected GPT formatted disk partition is not of type PARTITION_BASIC_DATA_GUID
Windows 10 streamlined the process of using unused space in disk partitions. Making further partitions became easier. But the new structure hasn’t been bug-free. When […]
The Disk structure is corrupted and unreadable on Windows
While working on your Windows computer, if you see Location is not available, The Disk structure is corrupted and unreadable error on Windows message, here […]
Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programs that are using this drive
Most of the issues with Windows have one good resolution – formatting the system drive and reinstalling Windows. Or then at times, we may want […]
How to combine two Hard Drives into one on Windows PC
In earlier days, having 512GB of internal storage was more than enough to store document, music, video, etc. However, now even 2TB of internal storage […]
Extend Volume option is grayed out or disabled in Windows 10
If you find that the Extend Volume option is grayed out or disabled in Disk Management Tool in Windows 10/8/7, then this post will explain […]
