CD-R and CD-RW technologies use a combination of metal and dye to fool CD-ROMs into thinking they're reading commercially prepared CDs. In this Daily Drill Down, Faithe Wempen shows you how to troubleshoot your CD writing.

When a 1-byte file can hog up to 32 KB of disk storage, it's no wonder they call it a FAT file system. In this Daily Drill Down, Brien Posey examines partitions and clusters, and he explains how to use your FAT to save space.

Understand the anatomy of hard disk clusters will help you interpret what goes on behind the scenes during your basic maintenance functions. Talainia Posey gives you the details.