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 ...

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 ...

Solid-state drives are wicked fast. SSDs start and shut down fast, and they perform read operations (especially random reads) at speeds that blow the doors off conventional hard drives. In the first ...

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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 ...

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 ...

If your computer begins displaying the message, "DISK BOOT FAILURE INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER" or "No system disk," it means that the PC cannot start because it cannot find the operating ...