There are some situations where you'll wish you had one.

It can be tricky to manage disk partitions in Windows. Perhaps you want to boot two operating systems simultaneously, or maybe you don't want to reinstall Windows when partitioning a hard disk. There ...

Your hard drive may appear like it doesn't have all of its space available, but its actually hidden partitions. Here's why ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...

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 ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

The NTFS file system was originally introduced with business applications in mind due to the enhanced reliability and security it offers. All hard drive partitions are, by default, formatted using the ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

Disk partitions can be a good way to keep personal and system data separate or useful if you want to run Windows alongside macOS. Setting them up can be a bit tricky, so it’s a good idea to use ...

When you get a new Mac, it comes with one startup drive (a hard disk or, in a few cases, a solid-state disk) named “Macintosh HD.” This arrangement is perfectly fine for most of us, but it’s not your ...