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Windows 8 Introduces New NTFS Health Model and chkdsk

Among the various changes that Windows 8 will bring along when compared to previous platform versions, Microsoft included a new NTFS health model, complemented by a redesigned tool for disk corruption detection and fixing, none other than the chkdsk utility. Whenever disk corruption occurs, Windows must isolate and ...

10 May 2012
07:48 GMT

Windows 8’s Resilient File System (ReFS) Gets Detailed

Windows 8 is bound to bring along a wide range of changes from the previous versions of Microsoft’s client. Some of them will affect the storage capabilities of the platform as well. The platform brings along a newly engineered file system, which sports the name of ReFS (Resilient File System). Built on NTFS...

17 January 2012
04:50 GMT

Windows 8 Protogon - File System Evolution Points to Longhorn WinFS Resurrection

Digging deep enough under the hood of early development milestone of Windows 8, and additional hidden examples of the platform’s evolution will be unveiled. Case in point: Protogon. There’s really no telling at this point in time what Protogon is exactly, what new capabilities it brings to the table or w...

1 June 2011
03:14 GMT

XP SP3 Doesn't Play Nice with Heavy I/O Operations on NTFS Volumes

Windows XP fails to play nice with heavy I/O operations occurring on volumes formatted with the NTFS file system, Microsoft informed. According to the Redmond company, the issue is related to the “Compress drive to save disk space” option. The software giant did not offer an explanation of the problems, b...

27 April 2009
09:20 GMT

Partition Magic Free Alternative

Partitioning your hard drive in order to accommodate all the stored files in an organized manner is definitely not a daily task for any user. The truth is that most of them generally do this operation at each acquisition of a hard drive, and then forget about it. This is normal behavior considering that the...

30 September 2008
04:01 GMT

Advanced Disks and Drives Management in Windows Vista

Disks, partitions, drivers, FAT, NTFS, volumes... the fact of the matter is that it all comes down to storage. So, essentially, managing disks and drives via Windows Vista will allow users to control the storage space available on the local hard drive or even drives if that should be the case. Instead of having a sin...

4 August 2007
09:13 GMT

Convert a FAT32 Disk to NTFS in Windows Vista

Right, this sounds a tad trickier than it actually is. Let's say that you are like me. At home, I have 2 hard disks. One SATA disk and one ATA. The SATA hard drive came with my new computer, the ATA one is a relic that I managed to save from a previous machine I owned. It's a combination of FAT32 and NTFS, ...

12 April 2007
08:30 GMT


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