Partitioning your hard drive essentially tells your computer to treat portions of that drive as separate entities. If you keep your system and apps on a partition separate from your data ...

One of the most confusing and intimidating parts of installing Linux for dual-booting with Windows is the disk partitioning required.

A SATA drive will only let you have a maximum of four partitions for example, and you will also need to create a small swap partition. When you come to install a Linux distro, make sure you select ...

We explain how to speed up your PC with an advanced technique known as "short stroking," which involves finding the optimal partition size and the fastest parts of your hard drive's platters.

Partitions allow you to segment a single drive for separating programs from files or installing a second OS.

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under ...

3. Use the partition After the process is complete, a new partition showing the amount of free, or unallocated, space appears next to the Windows C: drive partition.

If you find a reason to move the Linux home directory from one drive to another, Jack Wallen has the step I’ve had a few instances in which relocating the HOME directory on either a Linux ...