A good way to separate your data is to partition your Mac hard drive. A partition splits your storage into two spaces, like putting a trunk divider in your car. The most common use case is to install ...

Partitioning your hard drive sounds like a technically involved task that most people don’t need to bother with—but it’s actually relatively simple to do, doesn’t have to cost you any money, and can ...

Unlike internal hard drives, most external hard drives come already partitioned and formatted. However, if you need multiple partitions for your business data, you may need to remove or shrink the ...

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

Hey y'all, I got a little question about how to partition my hard drives for a completely new install of XP Pro.<P>I have a 15GB IBM 75GXP, and a slower 10GB Maxtor. It seems most people recommend a ...

Sometimes partitioning a drive so it contains multiple volumes can be useful when managing data for different tasks, but is also required for creating multiboot environments. Here is one way to do ...

Disk partitioning–separating your hard drive into multiple independent volumes–can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches. PC World’s Patrick Miller shows you how to use the Disk Management ...

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...

Windows 8's Quick Format option marks occupied hard drive sectors as available, but it doesn't actually wipe the files that occupy the sectors. A tech-savvy user could still access and view the files ...

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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 ...