A Recovery Partition on Windows computers is a special partition that is used for System Recovery purposes. You can view the Recovery Partition in the Disk Management tool on your Windows computer.

Increasing the size of the System Reserved Partition without third-party software requires the execution of the required commands in the Command Prompt. Therefore, this method is only for advanced ...

I'm trying to find a command line utility that will allow me to change Partition ID/Type within a batch script under Windows XP.<BR><BR>For example: I have a disk with two formatted NTFS partitions, ...

Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive. From time to ...

The next step is to delete the OEM partition between the C: volume and your unallocated space. You'll need to use an old command-line tool for that. In Part 1, I showed you how to replace a hard drive ...

Before Windows was created, the most common operating system that ran on IBM PC compatibles was DOS. DOS stands for Disk Operating System and was what you would use if you had started your computer ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

I was troubleshooting an XP box today. Every time it booted, it would freeze with a BSOD just after starting windows. I tried booting to safe mode - same thing. I tried booting to safe mode command ...

Last month, I discussed installing Windows 10 IoT Preview on the Raspberry Pi 2. The process entailed flashing a bootable image of Windows 10 onto an SD Card. Because Windows 10 Internet of Things is ...