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 ...

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

Adding a second (or third or more!) hard drive to your computer is a great way to, well, give your computer more disk space. Ok, the concept is pretty logical but the process to make it work needs ...

2. Partition Your New Drive and Format the Filesystems You can use any partitioning tool that works for you—from fdisk to qtparted. This may sound obvious, but make sure that you allocate plenty of ...

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 ...

Use a Windows tool to make your backups easier, set up an emergency recovery partition or install another OS. By Patrick Miller, PC World – Disk partitioning–separating one physical hard drive ...

Last week we mentioned how a Linux live CD can save you in times of crisis. But the usefulness doesn't stop there. Help2Go has a tutorial up detailing how you can partition your Windows hard drive ...