Unlike internal hard drives, most external hard drives come already partitioned and formatted. However, if you need multiple partitions for your business data, you may need to remove or shrink the ...

4 reasons you should never partition another hard drive again ...

Before partitioning your HDD or SSD, it's important to keep a backup of your files. Make a good backup of your important data to avoid possible loss of important data. The following methods apply to ...

I am planning to do a clean install of Windows Vista on a new WD 500 GB SATA HDD and want to partition and format the disk and arrange my programs so that my system is as efficient and easy to use as ...

Editor’s note (1/12/10): For more-current advice, see “How (and Why) to Partition Your Hard Drive.” No matter the capacity of your PC’s hard drive, chances are that it’s set up to function as one ...

I'm trying to use Ghost 9 to copy a hard drive with 2 partitions to a new one. I tried copying the partitions to another drive. When I try to restore to the new drive, Ghost will only let me restore ...

Most readers suggested not making an alias of the Identities folder, as we had suggested, but rather making an alias of the entire Documents folder. This solves the problem for Entourage and every ...

The term hard drive refers to the actual storage medium — either in the classic sense with rotating magnetic discs (HDD) or as a modern SSD with flash memory. The term drive refers to the electronics ...

We've received notes from some readers indicating problems installing Mac OS X on drives that contain more than one partition. In these cases, some users find that formatting a drive with only a ...