Planning to shrink a 120 GB Windows OS partition to 80 GB, but struggling to recall any reliable partition managers? We have highlighted the names of some of the best free Partition Manager software ...

Partitioning your hard drive makes managing the operating system, files, and file formats of each partition easier. For example, you can install Windows 11/10 on one partition and store movies or ...

Apple's Disk Utility by default will only show you user-accessible drive partitions, but here is how to view all drive partitions in Apple's disk management utility. Topher, an avid Mac user for the ...

When you get a new Mac, it comes with one startup drive (a hard disk or, in a few cases, a solid-state disk) named “Macintosh HD.” This arrangement is perfectly fine for most of us, but it’s not your ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

Partitioning your hard drive sounds like a technically involved task that most people don’t need to bother with—but it’s actually relatively simple to do, doesn’t have to cost you any money, and can ...

Disk partitions can be a good way to keep personal and system data separate or useful if you want to run Windows alongside macOS. Setting them up can be a bit tricky, so it’s a good idea to use ...

Windows 11/10 streamlined the process of using unused space in disk partitions. Making further partitions became easier. But the new structure hasn’t been bug-free. When you try to format raw space or ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...