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 ...

If you've read the previous section explaining how to create a new partition using Vista's built-in tools you will undoubtedly notice that the following additional steps are not required in that ...

Increasing the size of the System Reserved Partition without third-party software requires the execution of the required commands in the Command Prompt. Therefore, this method is only for advanced ...

I had an old 500 GB HDD that I'd partitioned into an OS X partition and Win7 partition. I bought a new 750 GB HDD to put in the main drive bay of my MBP and an OptiBay to hold my old HDD. My desired ...

When setting up new computers, the system installation will ask you to partition your unallocated space. This represents the space on your hard drive that has not been assigned a drive letter. Without ...

You can partition a hard drive in Windows 10 to create dedicated portions of the hard drive that your computer will recognize separately. Every hard drive has at least one partition, usually called "C ...

Windows 11 comes with a wide range of tools built right into the operating system, some of which can be very helpful. One of those tools is Disk Management, the built-in disk and partition manager, ...