Partitioning your hard drive divides your disk into multiple independent sections. The partitions function as separate drives, so that if one gets corrupted, no other partition's files suffer any ...

For any partition management work, there are many free third-party tools available, but Windows includes a pretty good Disk Management Tool that should suffice you for most of your disk management ...

I have seen a couple of computers where the Primary partition – C Drive, has extra storage space. Some computers do not have a partition at all, while some have a smaller partition. Since it is not ...

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I currently have a 40 gig drive with about 20 gigs free, and I wanted to create a new partition on the drive. It is drive C, and the OS and all apps are installed on it. I know Disk Management in ...

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 ...

If you’re installing a new hard drive, or need to wipe your drive clean for that “fresh” feeling, you’ll end up formatting your drive. Formatting will check the drive for errors, and prepare it for ...