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 ...

When Windows runs low on space on the system partition, your PC starts to slow down, updates fail to install, errors pop up ...

Hi,<br><br>I have linux running very, very nicely on my laptop. I have the first partition set up as my root partition, my other partitions offset at other points on the drive, and at no point do I ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...