Disk volumes may be identified by either their assigned drive letter or volume name. By default, disk volumes installed on your computer are named Local Disk in the Windows 7 operating system. If you ...

The latest post on the Engineering Windows 7 blog is about disk space and is written by Michael Beck, a program manager in the core OS deployment feature team. The Windows 7 team outlined tradeoffs ...

I have a laptop running a fully licensed version of Windows 7 Ultimate x64. For some reason, the boot partition has become corrupted. I didn't get a Windows 7 disc or a recovery disc with the install.

A few months back I explained how Windows 7 users can use built-in tools to create a system-repair disc–an important step to take given that few PCs these days come with one. A reader who uses Vista ...

Microsoft has released a new Update for Windows 7 SP1, which adds a new option to the built-in Disk Cleanup tool and allows users to clean up and delete outdated Windows Updates. Add Windows Update ...

Use Windows 7 System Image Recovery to restore a hard disk Your email has been sent In this edition of the Windows Desktop Report, Greg Shultz shows you how to use System Image Recovery to revive an ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Anyone who tried to install their upgrade version of Windows 7 to a fresh drive was treated to a ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...