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, ...

Divide your hard drive into multiple partitions to improve performance and simplify backups.

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 ...

Terms like hard disk, drive, partition, and image are often confusing. Knowing the difference saves time and avoids errors ...

There's no need to completely wipe the data from your drive when you want to partition that drive. Chris Breen shows you how.

A partition separates a section of a physical disk into another virtual drive. When you split a hard drive into two partitions, you're creating a separate disk that your operating system (like ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage lately, thanks to their high transfer speeds and ultrafast access times, but most people still use cheap, spacious mechanical hard drives. Unfortunately, mechanical ...

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.

If you just installed a new hard drive in your computer and you are running the Ubuntu operating system, you must partition and format the new drive before you can use it. To use the drive with ...