Posts under Hard Disk tag.

Windows 10 creates an extra Disk Partition

Fix: Windows 10 v1803 creates an extra Disk Partition

Windows 10 v1803 April 2018 Update brought along a lot of new features and improved upon existing ones. However many users reported that it creates extra OEM or Recovery partition. It is basically a WinRE partition. They cannot be deleted […]

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Best Hard Drive encryption software

Best Hard Drive encryption software for Windows 10

In this techno world, data protection demands the utmost attention. The internet is totally susceptible to incidents of Ransomware. Cybercrime is on a constant rise, and this uses internet for malicious purpose. Thus Data Encryption is the need of the […]

Windows detected a hard disk problem

Windows detected a hard disk problem

Windows has an inbuilt mechanism which checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets the following error message: Windows detected a hard disk problem. Back up […]

List of best external hard disks of 1 TB size

In the era of cloud computing, hard drives still play a vital role in helping you manage your crucial data when cloud isn’t available or is too expensive. Trusted old HDDs are great for storing large amounts of your documents, […]

Best Internal Hard Disk Drives

Best Internal Hard Disk Drives for your Windows computer

Despite the surge in demand for Cloud storage and Solid State Drives, HDDs or Hard Disk Drives are still pretty much in fashion. This is because of many reasons like reliability and affordability. You can use multiple hard drives to […]

Free Disk & Partition Manager Software For Windows 10

Planning to shrink a 120 GB Windows OS partition to 80 GB, but find it hard to remember any good, reliable Partition Managers names? Do not worry, we have, in this post highlighted names of some of the best free Partition Manager […]

GPT GUID Partition

What is GPT Partition or GUID in Windows 10/8/7

What is GUID Partition Table or GPT? In this post, we will see what a GPT partition is and how they compare to MBR disks and also how to format, remove, delete it or convert GPT disk to MBR disk. GUID […]

How to Securely and Safely dispose of old Computers

Over time, you store plenty of data on your computers. If you wish to sell them, you should never sell them as such. There are dangers of data theft and misuse. At least, you will have people know about you […]

Disk Error Checking in Windows 10/8

Users of Windows 8/10 may have noticed that Disk Error Checking is a bit different from the earlier versions of Windows. Checking your hard disk, every once in a while for errors – usually caused due to improper or sudden shutdowns, […]

Hybrid Drive vs SSD vs HDD: A comparison

With Flash storage devices picking up, you would want to know which type of storage device to buy for yourself. Solid State Disk or SSDs are faster than conventional Hard Disk Drives or HDDs, but a lot costly. There is […]

Convert Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk

Convert Basic Disk to Dynamic Disk in Windows 10/8/7

This post compares Basic Disk and Dynamic Disk and shows how to convert basic disk to dynamic disk and dynamic disk to basic disk, using Disk Management and CMD / diskpart, without losing the data in Windows 10/8/7. Basic Disk and […]