Windows operating system allows users to create different partitions on a hard disk. They can use these hard disk partitions for different purposes, like installing Windows operating system, storing ...

Partitioning your hard drive makes managing the operating system, files, and file formats of each partition easier. For example, you can install Windows 11/10 on one partition and store movies or ...

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 ...

There are lots of reasons why you might want to partition your Mac. Perhaps you want to partition your Mac to run Windows, or maybe you want to install Mojave beta on a partition, so that you can run ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...

All these terms i.e., partition, volume, and logical drive are data storage units. But there are differences that we have tried to cover in this post below. Let’s learn about them one by one. A ...

Partitioning a new SSD that's installed on your PC is a fairly simple process, and it has various benefits. Having separate partitions allows you to store personal data away from the OS files, so you ...

When you get a new Mac, it comes with one startup drive (a hard disk or, in a few cases, a solid-state disk) named “Macintosh HD.” This arrangement is perfectly fine for most of us, but it’s not your ...

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, ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...