Hard disk partitioning is the practice of splitting the storage space into individual data areas, termed as partitions. The way access permission is implemented on these partitions is totally dependent on the…
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What are Your Mac OS X Re-installation Options?
When you need to reinstall your Mac OS X operating system, might be due to system crash, operating system malfunction, removing system errors or to switch to later version, the Mac installation…
Damaged /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab Cause Data Loss in Linux
Linux file system is made up of several components and /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab are most important among them. For proper functioning of your file system and computer system, these data structures must…
File System Corruption Cause Disk Space Problems on NTFS Partition
The NTFS (New Technology File System) supports several file and volume-level feature, which might cause the hard drive space to be either reported as lost or misreported. You might come across this…
Resolving ‘The HFS wrapper partition is damaged’ Error in Mac OS X
HFS Wrapper is a popular and reliable Mac OS X file system. The HFS+ volume could be made to contain within the HFS file system volume in a way that make it…
Partition Recovery When Windows Boot Record Gets Damaged
In Microsoft Windows computer, boot record is the most critical data structure that enables booting of your system and make your system usable. In some situations, when you start your Microsoft Windows…
Partition Recovery Methods From Non-responsive Windows XP Computer
In some situations, where you attempt to start your Microsoft Windows XP computer, it stops responding. Sometimes it gives you some STOP error messages or simply shows a black or blue screen…
Partition Recovery When Windows Boot Record Gets Damaged
In Microsoft Windows computer, boot record is the most critical data structure that enables booting of your system and make your system usable. In some situations, when you start your Microsoft Windows…
UPLB research on improved eggplant varieties, a success
Dr. Merdelyn C. Lit of the Institute of Plant Breeding, Crop Science Cluster of the College of Agriculture, UP Los Baños, who served as the project leader of three research projects on…
Issues Creating Backup due to FTDisk Sets in Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 supports improved LDM code. It outperforms several I/O features of earlier Windows versions. But due to these changes, the backward compatibility with Windows NT fault-tolerant disk has been removed….
Error Installing Windows Vista on a Specific Disk Partition
In addition to partition table and bootstrap code, the MBR also contains a 32-bit value disk signature that uniquely identifies the disk medium. This is further followed by a 64-bit integer value…
The Guest Account Incompatibility Issues in Snow Leopard
A significant bug in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard could affect you, if you have upgraded from Mac OS X Leopard to Mac OS X Snow Leopard with guest account enabled….
Improper Use of Bootcfg.exe Command May Cause Partition Loss in Windows
In Microsoft Windows, Bootcfg.exe is a command-line utility that is used to modify Boot.ini file. It has a function, which scan the hard drive of your computer and then add them to…
Resolving ‘One of your partitions is corrupted’ Error in Microsoft Windo
CHKDSK (CheckDisk) is a command-line utility in Microsoft Windows operating system, which ensures the file system integrity. It detects and fixes minor file system logical errors. The utility can also check hard…
Disk Utility Internal Error and Mac Data Loss
In Mac OS X, Disk Utility is used to perform several disk related tasks. It is beneficial in creating, converting, compressing and encrypting disk images, checking the SMART status of hard drive,…