In my last post, Hummingboard: Giving Raspberry Pi a run for less money, I mentioned using a free. open source Windows utility called Win32 Disk Imager to create a disk image of Debian GNU/Linux ...

It's faster to restore a known-good disc image of your PC than to reinstall Windows, so plan ahead by using a free disk-backup utility. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace technology as an ...

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Defragmenting your hard drive regularly is an important part of regular hard drive maintenance, and the best tools can defrag your drive regularly or on demand when your games start to slow down or ...

No matter how sophisticated your RAID hardware is or how fast your disk devices are, servers that actively write and delete files slow to a crawl without routine disk defragmentation. Windows 2000 ...

In the world of hard drive information utilities, https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,198433/description.html (free) is a gem. A venerable one at that–it’s ...

A good way to separate your data is to partition your Mac hard drive. A partition splits your storage into two spaces, like putting a trunk divider in your car. The most common use case is to install ...

If you have purchased a new Mac or have upgraded your hard drive on an older Mac, you may find when accessing the option to erase free disk space using Apple's Disk Utility that the controls for doing ...

Apple hides a surprising range of powerful, free apps in every Mac. Learn which built-ins can actually boost your ...

Disk Utility is a hard disk management application that comes with the Mac operating system. The software offers a number of hard drive management functions, including the ability to partition and ...