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 ...

A Recovery Partition on Windows computers is a special partition that is used for System Recovery purposes. You can view the Recovery Partition in the Disk Management tool on your Windows computer.

The disk partitioning utility built into Windows 7 doesn't let you extend partitions to the left, so to enlarge your leftmost partition, you need a free repartitioning program. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

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

Most Windows computers contain at least one hidden partition that's invisible when you browse your computer's hard drive. Windows often creates a hidden system partition it uses during startup, and ...

Ever wish you could split your disk drive in two? Maybe you want to encrypt a portion of your drive for sensitive files, or perhaps you want to dual-boot Windows 11 alongside Windows 10. It's actually ...

Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another. Creating a separate data partition protects both your system and your data. See Reasons to ...

Sometimes when you plug a USB drive into your PC it doesn't show up. We're going to look at a few ways to fix that problem.

So you want to try out Windows 8. Excellent! But you’re not foolhardy enough to try using a developer preview build as your main work/play operating system–you just want to dabble. We’ll show you how ...