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 ...

Editor’s note (1/12/10): For more-current advice, see “How (and Why) to Partition Your Hard Drive.” No matter the capacity of your PC’s hard drive, chances are that it’s set up to function as one ...

If you've purchased a Seagate hard disk drive to use on one of your office computers, you can partition it in Apple's Disk Utility application running on a Mac. Along with preparing drives for ...

If you have used Windows Vista, you must be knowing about the in-built option to partition hard drives. Similar to that, Windows 7 too come with a built-in facility to create, resize and delete ...

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 ...

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 ...

Can anyone point me to a guide on how to upgrade the HDD on my T40 without losing the recovery partition?<BR><BR>I've disabled the pre-desktop area but Acronis True Image does not recognise the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...