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In order to use a disk, you need to create a partition and format it with Windows supported file system like NTFS, Fat32, etc. File systems are used to put data into the disk in a structured manner. We can format a drive or partition easily by using the Disk Management tool. Open Disk Management … Read more
NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT are popular file systems used in different operating systems and platforms. Actually all of these 3 file systems are related to each other where FAT32 is the first file system designed for Windows operating systems and extended with the exFAT file system but NTFS is designed for a complete replacement for … Read more
Hard Disk Drive is computer hardware used to store different types of data like a file, folder, image, video, office documents permanently on a computer. Hard Disk Drive may have different names like Drive, Hard Drive, HDD, Disk, etc. In computer terminology, Hard Disk Drive is named as secondary storage. Types Of Hard Disk Drives … Read more
Linux operating system relies on files. File systems should be mounted in order to be used. Mounting a file system can be with the mount command. In order to mount single or multiple file systems, we need some configuration. There is default configuration while using mount. But if we want to provide different options about … Read more
Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RHEL, and others use disks by mounting them to the file system. We have already examined mount command in the following tutorial. In this tutorial we will learn how to umount the disk in a Linux system. Linux Mount Command Tutorial With Examples Before Unmount Before unmount we should be … Read more
File systems are important part of the operating systems. Files and folders are stored in file system. There are a lot of different type of files systems. We generally uses the Linux distribution provided file system without changing it. ext4 is the most used and stable file system in the Linux ecosystem. There are alternatives … Read more
Chkdsk command is used to detect and fix disk and file system related errors if posible.chkdsk provides some little options where we have all ready examined them in the following tutorials. Windows Chkdsk Utility Tutorial with Examples To Fix File System Errors How To Use Chkdsk /F Command? We will look use cases for chkdsk /R in … Read more
Check Disk tools is used to check integrity , health of disk or hard disk. Check disk supports variety of file systems those mainly used in Windows operating systems like FAT16, FAT32, NTFS. We have all ready examined the checkdsk options in the following tutorial. Windows Chkdsk Utility Tutorial with Examples To Fix File System Errors … Read more
diskpart is a Windows utility to create partitions on the disk. It is similar to the Linux fdisk utility. diskpart provides an interactive command shell where we will enter related commands to partition, format disk, and volumes. In order to run diskpart we need Administrator privileges. The best way to get Administrator privilege is opening MS-DOS as Administrator … Read more
Check Disk or chkdsk command is used to detect FAT16, FAT32, NTFS file system related errors, and fix them. Chkdsk can not recover corrupted files which are a hard situation. Chkdsk can be run from the command line or from GUI but the command line use is the most practical way. What Is Chkdsk? chkdsk … Read more