Making sure your company's hard drives are free of errors helps to protect against the loss of important data. How you go about performing a disk check on a hard drive has changed somewhat with the ...

The easiest way to check if a Disk uses GPT or MBR Partition would be to do it from the Disk Management window. If you are familiar with the Windows Command-line interpreter, you can use either ...

I can’t recall a single month since I started using Windows when I haven't encountered an issue. Whenever something goes wrong, I turn to the built-in Windows tool: Command Prompt. It may look ...

Command Prompt (or CMD) is Microsoft’s command-line interpreter for its Windows operating systems. It enables you to use commands for performing various operations on your computer — everything from ...

If working in IT has taught me anything, it is that many computer issues truly can be resolved with a reboot. If I’ve learned two things, though, it is that a myriad of remaining Windows issues can be ...

These days, you might be used to diving into the Windows 11 Settings app or the Task Manager for things like checking on your disks and even killing unresponsive apps. But before we had fancy ...

Yes, you can find out the model, serial number, and other info about the hard drive without pulling it out of the PC, and in this guide, we'll show you how on Windows 10. When you purchase through ...

Of all the PC components, few require more care and attention than a hard drive. We’ve all heard the admonishments to defragment drives, and clean up junk files to keep all our 1s and 0s sparkling. No ...

The command line may seem like an esoteric tool for developers and uber-hackers, but it has plenty of useful tricks up its sleeve. Here are a few easy things you can do from a terminal window that ...

The following are methods to Check Disk Space Usage in a Folder in Windows 11/10. Check the Folder’s Size from File Explorer Check the Folder’s Size from Command Prompt Check the Folder’s Size from ...

Ran into a brick wall on this one. Trying to use the disk builtin check with icinga2 for my linux boxes, but for anything other than the '/' partition, it tells me that the disk in question is "not ...

How to use the Linux iostat command to check on your storage subsystem Your email has been sent To help troubleshoot your Linux datacenter servers, you need the right tools. Jack Wallen introduces you ...