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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Format an SD Card Using Diskpart In addition to its capability to remove write protection, Diskpart proves to be a versatile tool for various operations, including formatting. Here’s a step-by-step ...

Some users reported getting an error message saying “Diskpart has encountered an error, The media is write protected” after using the clean or clean all commands ...

Plug in the USB drive you want to format, and open File Explorer. Identify the exact drive name of the USB drive. Make sure not to make any mistakes here. If you use an incorrect drive letter, you ...

Think it is safe to use Diskpart off the 2008 dvd (booting off it) to extend the System Volume on a 2003 box? Annoying that I can't just use the extend command from within the OS. Naturally backups ...

I tried (unsuccessfully) turning my sony vaio into a hackintosh and as a result I accidentally deleted/moved my recovery partition. I've since found out that you can't actually delete said partition, ...