While the days of expensive storage are (thankfully) long gone, the task of managing storage hasn't disappeared along with the high costs. And, somehow, administrators always seem to be just a ...

CHKDSK is a command-line utility that lets you find the bad sectors on a volume and verify the integrity of system files stored on the drive. It is used regularly by many Windows users to get the ...

In order to store data in an organized manner, operating systems now give you a feature to create separate partitions out of your HDD or SSD based storage. Microsoft has always been supporting this ...

I had a pair of 4TB drives in a RAID1 running off an onboard Intel Rapid Storage controller (fake RAID), but performance was horrible - like 1/2 to 3/4 of rated drive speed. I decided begrudgingly to ...

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 ...

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 ...