Managing hard drive partitions might seem intimidating, but it’s a straightforward process with the right tools. Windows offers built-in utilities that make partition management relatively easy, ...

Most PCs come from the factory with a single partition on their hard drive, meaning that it shows up as one drive in the Computer window (as C:, typically). But keeping your data, applications, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The System Reserved Partition or EFI System Partition on your hard drive is a tiny sector Windows uses to house system files such as the Boot Configuration Database, Boot Manager Code, and Windows ...

Partitioning your hard drive can be useful for trying out a new OS or managing several terabytes of data. Space is no longer the final frontier — at least, not as far as hard drives are concerned. We ...