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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

hi,<P>i am dual booting win2k and linux and have each os on a different hdd. On the win hd i have a os and a data partition. I can and have mounted the os partition using the "mount -t /dev/hda1 ...

I guess the topic/subject says it all. Is it possible to do? The machine in question has barely anything stored on the second partition, the first partition is ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...