If you get the We couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one when you try to clean install Windows 11 or Windows 10 on your device, you can try the recommended solutions in the order ...

The active partition is the main partition of the hard drive that has a Windows operating system and it can be set as a bootable partition. On every hard drive, you can pick only one primary partition ...

I had an old 500 GB HDD that I'd partitioned into an OS X partition and Win7 partition. I bought a new 750 GB HDD to put in the main drive bay of my MBP and an OptiBay to hold my old HDD. My desired ...

We all need to start from scratch sometimes and if you're building a new PC, chances are you'll need to learn how to make a bootable USB drive. This will enable you to boot your PC directly from a USB ...

If you're juggling multiple operating systems, or you have multiple partitions you need to manage for one reason or another, you're probably familiar with Microsoft's built-in tool for partition ...

Unplug the SSD and boot to a Windows installer, and go through the repair functions with bootrec and copying the boot files with bcdboot, and rebuilding the bcd. May need to completely blow away the ...

Now that Windows 11 is out, you might be internally debating whether to make the leap now, wait a bit for it to mature, or stick with Windows 10 (or whatever OS you are currently using) for the long ...

Having bootable media ready can be a real lifesaver when you need to do a clean installation of Windows. Thankfully, it's easy to set that up. There are two main ways to create bootable media for a ...

Simply put, making an ISO image of a hard drive is to create a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Nowadays, as computing technology develops, users have many ways to image a hard drive ...