Some users reported getting an error message saying “Diskpart has encountered an error, The media is write protected” after using the clean or clean all commands ...

This error is caused due to a number of factors. It could be that the Write-Protection is enabled for the drive on which the operation is being performed, or the ...

Launching the DiskPart is not a big task. You are just required to open the Windows command terminals, either the Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell with the administrative rights. In this ...

Formatting your hard drive is an important step in setting up your computer. It clears all the data off the disk so that you can start fresh. DiskPart is a powerful command-line tool that allows you ...

The Windows tool Diskpart overwrites all data on the hard drive with a zero, which is considered a secure deletion method. This applies at least to classic hard drives, i.e. HDDs with magnetic discs.

The Diskpart command in Vista now lets you shrink a volume by using the Shrink subcommand, see here for details. This can be useful if you have only one hard disk and a C: drive that fills the disk, ...

In the past when you needed to resize a partition in Windows you had to use a 3rd party utility such as Partition Magic, Disk Director, or open source utilities such as Gparted and Ranish Partition ...

In Server 2012, when creating a new volume using DISKPART is it possible to specify the block size? There's an option for this in the Disk Management GUI, but this is a Core installation and I need to ...