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 ...

If you see an error message A required drive partition is missing while trying to reset your PC then this post will help you. Reset this PC is a handy feature in ...

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 ...

Windows XP allows users to split their hard drives into partitions. A partition is a separate block of space on a drive which usually gets represented with a different drive letter. Partitioning a ...

Modern Dell computers ship with a hidden partition on the hard drive that's often no more than a couple of gigabytes in size. The partition contains recovery software used to perform maintenance tasks ...

If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

Leo knows that data is safer if you don’t keep it on the same partition as Windows and your programs. I tell him how to move it in Windows XP. Backing up, recovering from a disaster, and moving to a ...