Unlike internal hard drives, most external hard drives come already partitioned and formatted. However, if you need multiple partitions for your business data, you may need to remove or shrink the ...

A multiple-partition setup helps organize your data, because you can dedicate blocks of storage to a specific task. As an example, you might have programs on your C: partition and business documents ...

Regarding yesterday's item on Using Entourage when switching startup partitions, readers offered numerous< variations on the alias method for solving the problem. Most readers suggested not making an ...

On purchasing a brand new computer, the hard drive usually has a single partition. However, you may need multiple partitions to organize your data and even protect it from data loss. You can view ...

I have two partitions on my MBP but would like to put Win7 on it as well so I can have SolidWorks running inside Windows. I didn't install Boot Camp before partitioning and now I can't install it at ...

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 ...

We've received notes from some readers indicating problems installing Mac OS X on drives that contain more than one partition. In these cases, some users find that formatting a drive with only a ...

Does any have any experience using RAID 1 on a ICH9R southbridge with multiple partitions?<BR><BR>I have two 500 GB drives which I would like to mirror. I plan on dual booting Windows XP 32 and ...

My partitioned drive frequently runs out of storage, which complicates my Windows 11 updates. Juggling multiple drives with partitions can be confusing, especially since I integrate older drives when ...

The term hard drive refers to the actual storage medium — either in the classic sense with rotating magnetic discs (HDD) or as a modern SSD with flash memory. The term drive refers to the electronics ...