Installing OS X Lion sets up a hidden recovery partition on most systems, but if for some reason this is missing, then there are some options for restoring or otherwise using the functions this ...

You can partition a hard drive on a computer to create multiple drive letters with a single drive. You can use the Disk Management utility in Windows to partition a drive by shrinking an existing ...

A good way to separate your data is to partition your Mac hard drive. A partition splits your storage into two spaces, like putting a trunk divider in your car. The most common use case is to install ...

Those of you who use dual-boot PCs typically need a way to manage the different operating system partitions on your hard drive. Sometimes you have to create, delete, or resize a partition. Other times ...

Without an intact Recovery HD partition on your Mac, you will not be able to use Apple's FileVault disk encryption feature. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

I am planning to have 2 partitions on the 10GB HD in my new iBook (DVD), one for MacOS 9 with all the critical apps (stuff that HAS to run, no playing around on that partition) and an OS X partition ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was playing CS yesterday, when system freezed. Resetted and after boot, all logical partitions on my Quantum lct 30Gb where gone. Since the primary partition (800Mb) only held win98 and all other ...