Partitioning your hard drive is a great way to keep your data organized and cut down on the time it takes to run maintenance tasks such as disk defragmenter. Windows 7 provides tools to modify, create ...

In order to store data in an organized manner, operating systems now give you a feature to create separate partitions out of your HDD or SSD based storage. Microsoft has always been supporting this ...

If you need to delete the Master Boot Record partition from a hard drive, a number of free tools are available to help you through the process, some built into the Windows operating system. Before ...

I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...

If Windows keeps assigning a drive letter to the recovery partition on your system, this post will show you how to fix it. A recovery partition is a special partition that contains the Windows ...

Windows 10's April 2018 Update (version 1803) brought various new features and removed some others, but also introduced a bug to many systems that caused an extra drive to be listed under "This PC." ...

Boot Camp will add a partition on-the-fly to your system drive, but there are some things that can stand in the way of that process. AppleInsider explains how to fix most of the issues preventing you ...

As a test run for upgrading to a SSD, I just cloned my Toshiba laptop's 720Gb HDD to a 1Gb HDD using Macrium Reflect. The target HDD was connected to the laptop by a USB docking station. The clone is ...

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...

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