Tips, tricks, and tutorials to help you get the most from your Windows PC.
Back in the days when we heavily relied on HDDs, we partitioned them to improve scalability and performance. Likewise, partitioning an SSD is also achievable. Well, partitioning a solid-state drive lets you create separate sections so that file organization becomes…
Usually, Window’s Disk Management utility is a great tool for managing the volumes in your drive. Still, it has some built-in limitations that can prevent you from executing your desired disk management operation. Once I uninstalled Ubuntu from my dual-boot PC and then ran…
Most users backup their data as standard practice these days. Unfortunately, a large portion of such backups is stored locally on the same drive, which is an issue that really deserves more attention. If you actually want to cover all…
Most of us format a hard drive to get rid of unwanted files and bloatware or to simply free up disk space. Also, some of us might be planning to give the drive away and want to know how to format it…
If you try formatting a 64GB+ drive in Windows, you will find that you can’t specify the File system as FAT32. You won’t be able to format such drives to FAT32 on Windows either through the command line or the…
Changing the system drive letter (generally C:) is not advised as applications may encounter errors during execution due to the change of path. But aside from this, users are free to change drive letters that they don’t like, or assign…
This error normally happens due to problems in the file system or partition-related issues such as a corrupt boot sector or bad sectors on the drive. Some other common causes include: If the hard drive is brand new and hasn’t been used…
Hard drive partitioning is a feature available since Windows 7. Likewise, Windows 11 has an in-built Disk Management option to partition the hard disk. Creating a partition is possible only if you have unallocated space on your disk. Else you…
Whether you’re just trying out a new operating system or need both Windows and Linux for work/personal reasons, dual-booting makes things very convenient. Right off the bat, we’re going to assume a couple of things. First, as Windows 11 is…
Cloning a hard drive is the best way to transfer the full contents of one hard drive to an SSD, especially if the drive contains the operating system. It is particularly useful when upgrading your computer with SSD. It is possible…
Windows has a limitation of 255-260 characters for the path length of a folder. If while transferring a folder, the new path length of the folder or any subfolder were to exceed this number, Windows does not allow transferring the…
Transferring large files is a serious hassle, especially if you want to upload to the internet or use a removable drive with small storage. It is possible to compress and split files using archive tools. However, you can’t individually use…
