Reader Kevin Riley has a splitting dilemma. He writes: I have a 1TB FireWire hard drive that is about a quarter full. I’d like to partition the drive but don’t want to have to back up all my data to ...

With Windows 7's release just around the corner, now's a great time to get your PC ready for the new operating system. First step: separate your data onto a dedicated partition. A partition is what ...

PartitionGuru, now called DiskGenius, is a free Partition Manager, Data Recovery, and Backup software for Windows PCs that will help you manage your disk partitions, back up and restore data, and ...

On purchasing a brand new computer, the hard drive usually has a single partition. However, you may need multiple partitions to organize your data and even protect it from data loss. You can view ...

Leo knows that data is safer if you don’t keep it on the same partition as Windows and your programs. Last week I explained fixing this in XP; now I’ll tackle Vista. Restoring Windows to its brand-new ...

I agree with this recommendation on every operating system you might use, including Windows Vista. As a matter of aesthetics, it's nice to keep your data from mingling with system files, and as a ...

Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another. Creating a separate data partition protects both your system and your data. See Reasons to ...

Database vendors have been advocating data partitioning techniques for managing large volumes of data over the past several years. Oracle has pioneered this trend with Oracle Database 8 and improved ...

disk0s1: Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes) BSD Name: disk0s1 Content: EFI Macintosh HD: Capacity: 150 GB (149,999,996,928 bytes) Available: 92.4 GB ...

I booted to the XP CD & when I saw 2 partitions, I assumed without looking too closely that the 40 GB IDE drive had 2 partitions on it & blithely deleted both of them ('D' , [ENTER], then 'L'Â , for ...