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 means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

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 ...

Sometimes installing OS X may result in odd behavior if the partition scheme on the drive is not set up properly. If you are experiencing problems, a simple repartition during setup may be an easy fix ...

I am trying to find a way to NTFS and HFS+ coexist on the same external firewire hard drive. I have tried various ways of partitioning them on both my mac and my pc and I can't figure a way to do it ...

Partitioning your hard drive makes managing the operating system, files, and file formats of each partition easier. For example, you can install Windows 11/10 on one partition and store movies or ...