If partitioning a drive with Disk Utility gives you unmount or resource busy errors, there may be workarounds you can use. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

I have seen a couple of computers where the Primary partition – C Drive, has extra storage space. Some computers do not have a partition at all, while some have a smaller partition. Since it is not ...

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 ...

Despite virtualization becoming more relevant and multiple drives (including external) installed on your PC, there are still good reasons to use multiple partitions on Windows PCs. Regarding Windows, ...

Windows operating system allows users to create different partitions on a hard disk. They can use these hard disk partitions for different purposes, like installing Windows operating system, storing ...

Several people with new hard drives have had this problem, and they have attributed it to bugs in the version of Disk Utility that's bundled with Leopard. While bugs and incompatibilities can't always ...

Partitioning your hard drive is a great way to keep your data organized and cut down on the time it takes to run maintenance tasks such as disk defragmenter. Windows 7 provides tools to modify, create ...

Here's a couple of related questions, rolled into one, which I am hoping someone can help me out with. These all relate to my attempting to understand the uses of the network block device (nbd) and ...

If you need to delete the Master Boot Record partition from a hard drive, a number of free tools are available to help you through the process, some built into the Windows operating system. Before ...

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...

Synology DSM partitions a 2tb drive as 2.38g for the OS 2.00gb for the swap file and an 127mb "unallocated" before user created partitions and 99mb "unallocated" after. I think the space for the OS ...