Partitioning the drive you keep your OS on can prevent disasters and let you recover quickly in the event of one. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here ...

You can partition a hard drive on a computer to create multiple drive letters with a single drive. You can use the Disk Management utility in Windows to partition a drive by shrinking an existing ...

On purchasing a brand new computer, the hard drive usually has a single partition. However, you may need multiple partitions to organize your data and even protect it from data loss. You can view ...

Windows isn’t the only operating system you can run on your PC. Provided you have space on your local drive, you can use multiple partitions to run different Linux distros, create storage partitions, ...

I have a hard drive which has a Primary partition ( WinMe ) and Extended Partition with four Logical Drives. XP being on one of them. I have about 18G freespace and was wondering if I could create ...

Partitioning your hard drive divides your disk into multiple independent sections. The partitions function as separate drives, so that if one gets corrupted, no other partition's files suffer any ...

Select your primary partition on the upper part of the menu (usually named C:). At the bottom part of the menu, you can now view all the partition volumes for the C: partition. Right-click on the ...

Space is no longer the final frontier — at least, not as far as hard drives are concerned. We are awash in a sea of high-capacity (1TB+) disks selling at relatively low prices. One result of this ...

My setup is:<BR><BR>2.6.16 kernel<BR>3ware 9500 Raid controller<BR>8 * 500GB sata drives (3.2 TB)<BR><BR>- and I have a 70Gb boot drive on /dev/sdb1<BR><BR>I want to use the xfs file system on the ...

In Vista Hands On #7: Move user data to another drive, I recommended using two separate physical drives for maximum data security. In that configuration, if your primary drive fails it doesn’t wipe ...