Enough of the times we have fallen victim to software crashes resulting in loss of precious data. What frustrates the most is that the data stored on the disk will be fine and it is just the operating ...

The classic Control Panel, which allows users to customize their system configurations, is no longer the most important feature for Microsoft. Rumors have suggested that Microsoft wants to retire ...

On purchasing a brand new computer, the hard drive usually has a single partition. However, you may need multiple partitions to organize your data and even protect it from data loss. You can view ...

Apple has released a tool that allows you to create a Lion recovery drive in similar ways to the current drive. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...

Says KB952910 – This behavior is by design: After installing Windows, when you display the list of disks for defragmentation from in the Disk Defragmenter tool, hidden partitions that are not mounted ...

Wittytool Disk Clone is being pitched to system administrators and managed service providers as a consolidated utility for changing Windows security identifiers while handling large-scale system ...

You can simplify various partition tasks, such as rebuilding the MBR, copying a disk, and doing a disk surface test, by relying on a handy third-party app. Most modern operating systems contain ...

When you lose data on a hard drive, a sector editor allows you to view data almost everywhere on the drive. Here's how you can use WinHex to recover data anywhere on a hard drive. Felix The Cat had a ...

First of all, thanks to the Ars community ~ I've been a lurker for a while and this is my first post. I recently bought a laptop for a relative ~ an ASUS X200CA; a low-end affair, yes, but he's ...

Quickly and thoroughly format any USB flash drive with your choice of FAT, FAT32, exFAT, or NTFS partition types. USB flash drives hold everything from personal information to music and pictures and ...