I read that it is desirable to have primary partitions on the hard disk that do not get corrupted, as extended partitions do. Could you please detail the procedure to make such a primary partition on ...

A while ago I decided to get a new hard drive and multiboot. The plan is to feel out a bunch of OSes and see which performs best for me. Well, the biggest pain thus far has been installing Windows XP.

The subject says it all, and I would rather not use a boot manager. Some thing that runs off a boot disk would be fine. I have tried PDISK.EXE as part of BootIt Direct, but although it changed the ...

The active partition is the main partition of the hard drive that has a Windows operating system and it can be set as a bootable partition. On every hard drive, you can pick only one primary partition ...

All these terms i.e., partition, volume, and logical drive are data storage units. But there are differences that we have tried to cover in this post below. Let’s learn about them one by one. A ...

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

Free partition manager software for Windows PC and Server. Resize existing volume safely and perform a variety of disk partition management operations. Clone disk partition to migrate operating system ...

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 ...

When you acquire a new business computer, you may see multiple drive letters such as C, D and E while viewing items in Windows Explorer. Although these drive letters may designate physical internal or ...