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 […]

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 […]

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 10/8/7

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 […]

You need to format the disk in drive before you can use it

You have a problem if you receive a message, You need to format the disk in drive before you can use it on your Windows PC, while using the external hard drive, USB, Memory or SD Card, as you may […]

Hidden Partitions displayed in Disk Defragmenter Tool in Windows 10

The Disk Defragmenter tool is a built-in Windows OS utility that defragments drives, by running a low priority task in the background without affecting the performance of the compute. You can also change the behavior of the Disk Defragmenter tool, […]

Edit raw data on partitions with Active@ Disk Editor

There may come a time when you might want to view the raw data on disk partitions, so what’s the best software to use for the job? There are several available, but today we are going to look at Active@ […]

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 […]

ChkDsk or Check Disk runs at every startup in Windows 10/8/7

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 system. If you face problems ranging from blue screens to inability to open, save files […]

The Disk Is Write-Protected error for Removable Disks

We all use removable disks in Windows. Well, sometimes, you may came across such errors with these removable disks, that may make you believe that the disk has malfunctioned and can’t be used at all. Today, in this article, we’ll discuss […]

Disk Defragmenter in Windows 10/8/7 explained

Starting with Windows Vista, the built-in Windows Disk Defragmenter has been much improved upon, and more so in Windows 8 and Windows 7, and is considered to be much better than its predecessor Windows XP. The defrag engine and the manageability of […]

Diskpart or Fsutil Utility in Windows 10/8/7

You don’t need to have 3rd Party Partition Manager Software to achieve resize partitions in Windows 10, Windows 8/7 & Windows Vista. The operating system includes a very useful Disk Management Tool that lets you resize partitions and more. In […]

Enforce Disk Quota Limit & Prevent Users From Changing Setting in Windows 8

Disk Management has been an important factor for an end-user, while maintaining a computer. When users reach an enforced disk quota limit, the Windows system responds by saying that the physical space on the volume has been exhausted. When users reach an unenforced […]

Create New, Resize, Extend Partition using Disk Management Tool in Windows 10/8/7

For any partition management work there are many free third-party tools available, but Windows includes a pretty good Disk Management Tool which should suffice you for most of your disk management work like partitioning, formatting, merging, etc. Similar to Windows 7, […]

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