Before partitioning your HDD or SSD, it's important to keep a backup of your files. Make a good backup of your important data to avoid possible loss of important data. The following methods apply to ...

Partitioning your hard drive divides your disk into multiple independent sections. The partitions function as separate drives, so that if one gets corrupted, no other partition's files suffer any ...

It can be tricky to manage disk partitions in Windows. Perhaps you want to boot two operating systems simultaneously, or maybe you don't want to reinstall Windows when partitioning a hard disk. There ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

I currently have a 40 gig drive with about 20 gigs free, and I wanted to create a new partition on the drive. It is drive C, and the OS and all apps are installed on it. I know Disk Management in ...

One drawback to having multiple users on OS X is there is no easy way to limit the amount of disk space used by that user. If a user has write access to a file system, then they can fill the drive ...

Micromat has announced DiskStudio, new hard disk utility that allows Mac users to change their hard disk partitioning scheme without the need to reinitialize and erase their hard disk. According to ...