The Windows designation for a storage drive (hard drive, SSD, USB drive) that has become corrupted (the file system is unreadable). The contents of such a drive have to be recovered by using a drive ...

On your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, if you open the Disk Management tool and you see that an SSD or HDD drive showing as RAW partition, that is because the volume is damaged and has lost its ...

Here is a free and open-source tool to write a raw disk image file to a removable device (say USB or flash drive). The tool is named Win32 Disk Imager. It can come in handy when you want to create a ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...

There are a number of Linux commands that will display file system types along with the file system names, mount points and such. Some will also display sizes and available disk space. The df command ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

It's the day after Independence Day in the US, and much of our staff is just returning to their preferred work machines. If this was 1997 instead of 2018, that would mean booting up BeOS for some. The ...