For basic disk operations on Windows systems, administrators can use Diskpart, a command-line utility that remains useful for many different drive-related jobs more than 20 years after it was released ...

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 ...

That "lightweight" Linux setup is eating your storage.

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, ...

A blog for IT professionals who work with Windows on large networks. The most common way to set up a hard disk for Windows installation is by default. That is, users present the installer with a clean ...

Rather than backing up, deleting , and later having to recreate one of the volumes on the disk, my colleague tried the following instead. He booted his server using a Vista DVD, and when the Install ...

Make sure to have a backup of all your files as your going to use the DISKPART tool, and any mistake can result in loss of all data. This issue is one of its kind and was accidentally discovered by a ...

I ran across a Microsoft article about SQL Server pre-deployment best practices and part of it mentioned Volume Alignment. I have NOT done this, however, I'm wondering if perhaps I really need to. I ...