Daniel Standage describes a problem where Disk Utility in OS X erased a drive that he did not intend to erase, presumably due to a bug in the software. Here are the details: "I have 3 separate ...

Hi, I have a Win2K Server system. It has 4 EIDE HDs configured as Dynamic Disks w/ a spanned volume on them. Alas, one of the disks have failed and taken the whole volume offline. I understand that I ...

A number of issues caused by Security Update 2005-007 v.1.1 can be avoided by repairing the normal startup disk while booted from volume (such as your Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger DVD or another volume with ...

Apple Software Restore lets you clone your Mac even with a Signed System Volume. Here's how to use it to copy your Mac's storage. For a variety of reasons, you may want to make a clone of your Startup ...

In Windows 11/10, a Striped Volume is a volume, which uses the free space from more than one physical hard disk to create a bigger volume. Unlike the regular spanned volume, a striped volume writes ...

Disk volumes may be identified by either their assigned drive letter or volume name. By default, disk volumes installed on your computer are named Local Disk in the Windows 7 operating system. If you ...

One thing is sure; you will not be able to clean the disk if you try it from within the Windows OS. If you are trying to switch the disk, you will need to follow alternate methods. In this step, you ...

To extend a volume, unallocated space must exist, and the unallocated space must be adjacent to the target partition. In addition, the partition style of the target volume must be in NTFS format. The ...

Am I destined to stare at the standard 3.5"HDD icon in Mac OS for my windows boot disk for ever? I can't figure out how to edit that icon; guessing it has to do with the volume being NTFS? I can ...

A handful of macOS apps let you make near-exact copies of your Mac's storage devices, which can be handy for backing up in case of a data emergency. Sometimes it's handy to make a full, complete, ...

Even though today's enterprise file servers offer more and more disk space, users still find ways to fill all the storage you give them. I'm sure you all have storage hogs, who despite constant ...

As dynamic disks provide more superiorities than basic, it is a justification that dynamic volumes are widely used. But the disk management under Windows is limited, such as users are not able to ...