When a hard drive is installed in a computer, it must be partitioned before you can format and use it. Partitioning a drive is when you divide the total storage of a drive into different pieces. These ...

Windows isn’t the only operating system you can run on your PC. Provided you have space on your local drive, you can use multiple partitions to run different Linux distros, create storage partitions, ...

The feature-packed MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro Edition 9 includes just about everything you need to manage your PC's partitions, but a few niggles leave room for improvement in a future update. Lets ...

Partitioning your hard drive makes managing the operating system, files, and file formats of each partition easier. For example, you can install Windows 11/10 on one partition and store movies or ...

In order to use a hard drive, or a portion of a hard drive, in Windows you need to first partition it and then format it. This process will then assign a drive letter to the partition allowing you to ...

Disk partitions are necessary to organize your data into different drives. It also makes sense to keep the system drives separate and run scheduled maintenance tasks (such as defragmenting and ...

Planning to shrink a 120 GB Windows OS partition to 80 GB, but struggling to recall any reliable partition managers? We have highlighted the names of some of the best free Partition Manager software ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...

There are lots of reasons why you might want to partition your Mac. Perhaps you want to partition your Mac to run Windows, or maybe you want to install Mojave beta on a partition, so that you can run ...