Partitioning decisions in Windows were once mundane with little risk attached. Recent vulnerabilities that allow the bypassing of safety protocols highlight the need to pay more attention to them. For ...

Ahmed needs to reinstall Windows, but his hard drive no longer has the necessary recovery partition. If your computer came from a major manufacturer, the hard drive has some important tools that you ...

Recovery Drive is a special partition on the hard drive that usually contains all the required files that can fully restore your Windows PC in case your system becomes unstable for any reason. It is ...

In this post, we will show you how to change or increase the WinRE Partition size in Windows 11/10. Microsoft will now update the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) alongside the monthly cumulative ...

Here's how to make sure all the personal files and other data on your storage drive are erased and unrecoverable, whether you ...

So the GF needed a new laptop and so we buy a nice Huawei Matebook. A while in, I notice the 1tb drive, besides EFI and recovery partitions, has an 80gb C: "Windows" partition and a "Data" partition.

As a test run for upgrading to a SSD, I just cloned my Toshiba laptop's 720Gb HDD to a 1Gb HDD using Macrium Reflect. The target HDD was connected to the laptop by a USB docking station. The clone is ...

Most Windows computers contain at least one hidden partition that's invisible when you browse your computer's hard drive. Windows often creates a hidden system partition it uses during startup, and ...

Whenever Windows 7 had problems, you could just insert your Windows 7 installation CD and run its recovery tools. Most Windows 8 users, however, don't have an installation CD. Here's how to make a ...