A driver first introduced in 1985 from Ontrack Data Recovery, a Kroll Ontrack subsidiary, Eden Prairie, Minnesota that allowed older DOS PCs with a 32MB disk limit to access larger drives. Since PCs ...

A very worthy alternative to Acronis for disk chores. Hard Disk Manager 2009 Suite is a welcome upgrade of an already capable partitioning and imaging suite from Paragon Software. The latest version ...

Hard Disk Manager is easy, complete and reliable toolset for hard disk management: partitioning, disk imaging backup, boot management, data and system security, simple recovery. Convenient and clear ...

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Microsoft's latest effort to improve the Settings experience in Windows 10 focuses on bringing disk management into the control interface. After making optional Windows 10 updates visible in the ...

To convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk without losing data, you may use the free edition of NIUBI Partition Editor. The software offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach to disk conversion, ...

Despite virtualization becoming more relevant and multiple drives (including external) installed on your PC, there are still good reasons to use multiple partitions on Windows PCs. Regarding Windows, ...

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 ...

Even though today's enterprise file servers offer more and more disk space, users still find ways to fill all the storage you give them. I'm sure you all have storage hogs, who despite constant ...

The prevention of data errors in a hard disk by invalidating bad sectors. Built into the drive itself, defect tables are used to identify the bad sectors that are encountered when the drive is first ...

Disk partitions can be a good way to keep personal and system data separate or useful if you want to run Windows alongside macOS. Setting them up can be a bit tricky, so it’s a good idea to use ...

While creating a drive partition on a hard disk via the Diskpart utility, some users have experienced the “The operation timed out” error. They have also tried ...