I have seen a couple of computers where the Primary partition – C Drive, has extra storage space. Some computers do not have a partition at all, while some have a smaller partition. Since it is not ...

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 ...

Managing hard drive partitions might seem intimidating, but it’s a straightforward process with the right tools. Windows offers built-in utilities that make partition management relatively easy, ...

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 ...

When a system goes down in your office, a properly maintained recovery partition can get you up and going again in just a few minutes. In HP computers, this recovery partition is normally created on ...

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 ...

A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

No. You can't change the drive letter assignments for Hard drive partitions. Windows does it automatically. Windows assigns drive letters in this order:<P>1 - Primary IDE channel, master drive, ...

I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...