Partitioning your hard drive makes managing the operating system, files, and file formats of each partition easier. For example, you can install Windows 11/10 on one partition and store movies or ...

The Read Only attribute in Windows 11/10 protects a file from being overwritten, modified, or deleted. As the name implies, when you set the Read Only attribute to a file or folder, you can only view ...

In this post, we will show you how to change or increase the WinRE Partition size in Windows 11/10. Microsoft will now update the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) alongside the monthly cumulative ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...

It varies, all the dirty pages in the page cache that aren't on disk won't be seen by fsck and will be taken down as errors. The only way you want to run fsck on a mounted partition is if it's mounted ...