Articles, tagged with "disk partitions", page 3

VBR Corruption and Partition Recovery

In Windows, each hard disk partition has an individual VBR (Volume Boot Record). Also referred as Volume Boot Sector or Partition Boot Sector, it is consisted of two major components: Disk Parameter Block or Volume Boot Code. Where the former component co... Read >
Author: jonny defh

Dynamic Volumes Inaccessibile in Windows Server 2003 after Upgrade

Windows Server 2003 doesn't support all FTDisk (fault-tolerant) volumes that have ever existed in Windows NT Server 4.0 installed computer system. For this reason, when you upgrade your computer to Windows Server 2003, some of dynamic volumes might remain... Read >
Author: jonny defh

Windows 200 Setup Displays Non- existent Partitions

The hard disk storage space is allowed to be partitioned into maximum of four primary partitions. These primary partitions are defined by respective 16-byte entries that form the hard disk partition table. It is located in disk MBR (Master Boot Record). W... Read >
Author: brad jerry

Error Installing Windows Media Center Extender on Windows XP

Windows Media Center Extenders are devices designed to connect to a Windows 7, Vista Premium or Ultimate or XP Media Center Edition based computer system via a network link. This allows the computer systems streamlining their functions to the device. To i... Read >
Author: brad jerry

How to Resolve 'Cannot proceed with the upgrade' error in Windows?

Data storage in basic disk uses partition-oriented disks, while in dynamic disk it uses volume-oriented disks. Windows Disk Management allows you to convert a disk initialized as basic disk to dynamic disk. While doing so, it checks the disk for several ... Read >
Author: Andrew Juan

Incompatibility of Partition Magic 6.0 With Windows XP Cause Partition Loss

In order to meet different data storage and management requirements, Microsoft Windows users need to resize, merge or shrink the hard drive partitions without destroying your valuable data. To effectively complete this task, some third party tools are ava... Read >
Author: mnkstllr

Disk Corruption on Windows Cluster Disks

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Datacenter Server operating systems support relatively advanced clustering service, when compared to its earlier Windows versions supporting the same service. Using cluster service allows you to connect to multip... Read >
Author: jacobluis

Formatting Unallocated Disk Space May Cause Partition Loss in Windows

If you try to decrease or increase the size of any of primary and secondary partitions of your hard drive in Microsoft Windows, you might find out some unformatted and unallocated disk space. This hard drive space is not usable until you format it. When y... Read >
Author: mnkstllr

How to Restore Lost Data Using ARAX Disk Doctor

ARAX Disk Doctor - Data Recovery is a powerful tool that restores deleted files, partitions, and more. ARAX Disk Doctor - Data Recovery's interface is an example of good design. Toolbars and file menus are logically placed, information windows are easily... Read >
Author: ARAX Technologies Inc

Partition Recovery In case of False System Partition

The Windows hard drives, which contain dynamic hard drive partitions, are known as dynamic disks. Dynamic disks support multi-partition volumes and store the partition information on the hard drive itself. LDM (Logical Disk Manager) is a Windows subsystem... Read >
Author: mnkstllr

Partition Loss in Dual-Boot System Due to Mismatched Alignment Boundary in Vista and XP

You can install Microsoft Windows Vista with Microsoft Windows XP in dual boot configuration. Most of the users generally go for a dual boot setup for getting better performance and compatibility with various applications, games and hardware resources wit... Read >
Author: mnkstllr

Linux Error: ‘Couldn’t open /etc/fstab’

fstab (also referred as file system table) is an important system configuration file in Linux. Located at /etc/fstab, this file lists all available disk and disk partitions. This file is used to determine disk initialization information and is usually use... Read >
Author: brad jerry

‘Cannot open root device’ Linux Boot Error

Root device refers to the device from which a Linux system boots from. While booting if you are getting errors that system cannot access or open the root device, you might need to install a fresh copy of operating system. Thus, you are always suggested to... Read >
Author: jonny defh

Superblock Corruption in Sun Solaris

A superblock in UFS (Unix File System) volume is the most critical part that contains vital information about the file system's geometry and behavior tuning parameters. Corruption of superblock primarily occurs due to overlapping disk partitions, operatin... Read >
Author: Simpson

Partition Loss in Windows after Extending Partitions using DiskPart.Exe

Microsoft Windows 2003 supports the advance feature of clustering. The most important advantage that you get you clustered environment is the failover support for all back-end applications and the services, which are ought to have high availability and da... Read >
Author: mnkstllr

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