The Spectrum

How to use DiskPart to clean and format disk partition

Launching the DiskPart is not a big task. You are just required to open the Windows command terminals, either the Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell with the administrative rights. In this ...
The Spectrum

How to use DiskPart to format a hard drive

Formatting your hard drive is an important step in setting up your computer. It clears all the data off the disk so that you can start fresh. DiskPart is a powerful command-line tool that allows you ...
Ars Technica

How to remove CDFS partition from USB drive

I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...
Ars Technica

Help me remove sticky Recovery Partition from HP Stream 13

Bought an HP Stream 13 recently. It only has a 32GB (29GiB) "SSD" and roughly 8GiB of that is set-aside to the recovery partition. I went through the normal steps to create a recovery thumb drive, but ...