disk management | Danny Tsang

Mar/22

Cannot Remove Healthy (Recovery Partition)

Filed Under Windows at 7th March 2022 0:01 by Danny

Tags: Disk, disk management, hard disk, HDD, partition, sdd, solid state drive, Windows

Overview Windows Disk Management tool does not allow recovery partitions to be removed so the command line route is the built in option to do this. Delete partition Open a command prompt as administrator. For example: typing cmd in the … Continue reading →

Feb/11

Waking Windows 7 Controller Error

Filed Under Windows at 17th February 2011 14:19 by Danny

Tags: Asus, BIOS, device manager, disk management, HDD, Marvell, SATA

It seems there’s an issue with my preferred method of separating home and windows partition on Windows 7. I use the Sleep function a lot rather than shutting it down over night. Most of the time it works but I … Continue reading →

Feb/10

Separate User & Windows Directory On Different Drives

Filed Under Windows at 22nd February 2010 0:01 by Danny

Tags: disk management, HKEY, Linux, Microsoft, NTFS, partition, ProfileList, REGEDIT, registry, Robocopy, SATA, superuser, userprofile

Overview I wanted to have the Windows partition and the user partition on separate drives. I have done this in the past on a Linux computer and it was very painless. The advantage to this setup is that most of … Continue reading →