Completely erase, wipe & overwrite data, metadata & empty space on disk using Overwrite

Whenever files are deleted from your computer, they are just unliked and the sensitive data could remain on your hard disk or external drive. That is something that could affect security and privacy where your Windows 10 computer is concerned. […]

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 all, while some have a smaller partition. Since it is not possible to delete C […]

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 normal. There is nothing to worry about except that part of storage space is not […]

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 Storage Device is prone to data loss and data corruption. But many times, even when […]

Troubleshooting common Disk Management error messages

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 displays Unknown Not Initialized then it means that Windows can’t the initialize disk and you […]

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 Windows 10 operating system fail, DiskPart always tends to work. This does not mean that […]

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 Disk ManagementTool and a more. However, in some cases, the Diskpart utility is unable to […]

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 that says – There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this […]

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 SSD based storage. Microsoft has always been supporting this small yet powerful feature. But many […]

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, and even with backup in place, its time consuming to restore all of them. That […]

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 you need to change hard disk partition size, merge or reduce the size and so […]

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 style message, maybe something here will be able to help you. When you receive this […]

We couldn’t update system reserved 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 be installed, We couldn’t update the system reserved partition with the error code 0xc1900104 or […]

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 users to be able to mount their virtual disks within a live Windows installation without […]

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 you try to format raw space or to create a new partition out of the […]

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 are a few things you need to do right away if you wish to avoid […]

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 to simply erase all the files & folders on our Data Drives, eg. D drive, […]

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 becomes insufficient for some people, who work as say a video editor and need to […]

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 why this happens & what you can do about it. We can use the built-in […]

Run Storage Performance Tests against Files, Partitions with TechNet Diskspd

Systems running Windows OS can use the latest version of Diskspd, a feature-rich and versatile storage testing tool from Microsoft TechNet, ideal for synthetic storage subsystem testing and validation. To be precise, a performance benchmarking tool. Normally, the open-source application […]

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