To safely delete a recovery partition, you must use special commands in PowerShell or Command Prompt. After deletion, the space becomes unallocated, and you can create a new partition using Disk ...

If you have noticed in Disk Management, a part of your hard drive says Healthy (OEM partition), and occupies space in GBs, then it is normal. There is nothing to worry about except that part of the ...

You must format an SD card prior to using it for storage. However, if you format the SD card into more than one partition, you can only use the active partition on the card. To delete partitions and ...

The NTFS file system was originally introduced with business applications in mind due to the enhanced reliability and security it offers. All hard drive partitions are, by default, formatted using the ...

The next step is to delete the OEM partition between the C: volume and your unallocated space. You'll need to use an old command-line tool for that. In Part 1, I showed you how to replace a hard drive ...

When you plug in your USB drive, do you see a UEFI NTFS partition? Do you know why Windows Explorer is displaying such a partition? If not, then you are at the right place! That partition usually ...

I've just ordered a Samsung NP900X3C, and would like to free myself up some space (mainly for importing photos when away). I'm happy to nuke the drive and start from scratch, I have win 8 licences (or ...

I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...