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 ...

Messing around with the hard drive’s structure is high on my list of the most unpleasant things to do with a computer. However, my basic do-it-myself credo is to never pay a computer shop guy to do ...

Partitioning your hard drive sounds like a technically involved task that most people don’t need to bother with—but it’s actually relatively simple to do, doesn’t have to cost you any money, and can ...

Says KB952910 – This behavior is by design: After installing Windows, when you display the list of disks for defragmentation from in the Disk Defragmenter tool, hidden partitions that are not mounted ...

Partitioning a new SSD that's installed on your PC is a fairly simple process, and it has various benefits. Having separate ...

These tools have traditionally been used to divide hard drives to accommodate different operating systems, or for quick data backup. However, in these days of humongous hard drives, partitions can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple's Disk Utility by default will only show you user-accessible drive partitions, but here is how to view all drive partitions in Apple's disk management utility. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

Most PCs come from the factory with a single partition on their hard drive, meaning that it shows up as one drive in the Computer window (as C:, typically). But keeping your data, applications, and ...

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 ...