With Windows 7's release just around the corner, now's a great time to get your PC ready for the new operating system. First step: separate your data onto a dedicated partition. A partition is what ...

I agree with this recommendation on every operating system you might use, including Windows Vista. As a matter of aesthetics, it's nice to keep your data from mingling with system files, and as a ...

A disk partition can be thought of as a division or "part" of a real hard disk drive. Really, it's only a logical separation ...

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 ...

You can partition a hard drive in Windows 10 to create dedicated portions of the hard drive that your computer will recognize ...

Managing partitions is something you may not need to do frequently, but when you do, Windows' partition manager is not up to snuff.

hi,<P>i am dual booting win2k and linux and have each os on a different hdd. On the win hd i have a os and a data partition. I can and have mounted the os partition using the "mount -t /dev/hda1 ...

Reader Kevin Riley has a splitting dilemma. He writes: I have a 1TB FireWire hard drive that is about a quarter full. I’d like to partition the drive but don’t want to have to back up all my data to ...

In Prepare Your PC for Future Data Disasters, Rick Broida recommended creating an image backup, but warned that it “isn’t intended to preserve your data; that’s an entirely different kind of backup.” ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...