As Brien explains, creating a virtual disk in Windows Storage Spaces is akin to creating a map to the underlying raw storage that will be used by the volumes on the virtual disk. In Part 1, I showed ...

A couple of months ago, I encountered an interesting situation with regard to the disks in one of my servers. At the time, I had two identical Hyper-V servers, each of which were equipped with five ...

Microsoft's latest effort to improve the Settings experience in Windows 10 focuses on bringing disk management into the control interface. After making optional Windows 10 updates visible in the ...

While creating a drive partition on a hard disk via the Diskpart utility, some users have experienced the “The operation timed out” error. They have also tried ...

You may view your hard drive in Disk Management and realize there are unallocated spaces. The space will be on the hard drive, but Windows cannot use it. It is like having a spare room in your house ...

Earlier this week I explained how to create separate system and data volumes when setting up Windows Vista from scratch. Today, I'll explain how to accomplish the same goal on a system where Windows ...

Although EC2 usually does a good job of hosting virtual machine instances, things can and sometimes do go wrong, and here Brien Posey continues his explanation of how to fix problems with an ...