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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Putting your applications and data in a partition separate from Windows' system files makes your backups faster and reduces the risk of a virus attack. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace ...

Vista’s Disk Management utility can partition your hard drive with ease. As I wrote the other day, I’m making my way to Windows 7 a little bit at a time. It’s getting a fresh install on a new ...

Recently in this forum I asked about ideas to partition the hard drive. Tonight, I ran Partition Magic and created 2 new partitions. In the process, I screwed up and decided to clean the hd and ...

Hard drive shrinking is the practice of reducing the size of your partition to create unallocated space that you can use elsewhere. Before your computer can use the space on the hard drive to store ...

All these terms i.e., partition, volume, and logical drive are data storage units. But there are differences that we have tried to cover in this post below. Let’s learn about them one by one. A ...

PC storage drives used to be pretty expensive if you wanted higher capacities, and the same was true for SSDs when they first came out. Over time, the price per GB of storage leveled out, so that both ...

The System Reserved Partition or EFI System Partition on your hard drive is a tiny sector Windows uses to house system files such as the Boot Configuration Database, Boot Manager Code, and Windows ...

Synology DSM partitions a 2tb drive as 2.38g for the OS 2.00gb for the swap file and an 127mb "unallocated" before user created partitions and 99mb "unallocated" after. I think the space for the OS ...

Several people with new hard drives have had this problem, and they have attributed it to bugs in the version of Disk Utility that's bundled with Leopard. While bugs and incompatibilities can't always ...