Messing around with the hard drive’s structure is high on my list of the most unpleasant things to do with a computer. However, my basic do-it-myself credo is to never pay a computer shop guy to do ...

You can anytime hide a partition to conceal your important information or make it inaccessible to any unauthorized person for safety reasons. You can unhide or mount this partition later by using the ...

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 ...

To be able to work with USB drives that have multiple partitions, your PC has to be Windows 10, v1703, with the most recent version of the Windows ADK installed. Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit ...

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, ...

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, doesn’t have to cost you any money, and can ...

One result of this abundance of storage space is the resurgence of partition managers, which help users create, format, resize, merge and delete individual partitions. These tools have traditionally ...

Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive. From time to ...

What happens if your Lion-powered Mac runs out of lives? Not just a kernel panic; we're talking about a hard drive failure that results in the loss of Apple's OS X Lion's Recovery HD. Now that we've ...

Space is no longer the final frontier — at least, not as far as hard drives are concerned. We are awash in a sea of high-capacity (1TB+) disks selling at relatively low prices. One result of this ...