Partitioning your hard drive is a great way to keep your data organized and cut down on the time it takes to run maintenance tasks such as disk defragmenter. Windows 7 provides tools to modify, create ...

The Recovery partition is a separate partition on your computer's hard drive or SSD and is used to restore or reinstall the ...

If you need to delete the Master Boot Record partition from a hard drive, a number of free tools are available to help you through the process, some built into the Windows operating system. Before ...

I'm retiring my M4 ssd to use as a scratch disk. Since it was a Win 7 boot disk it has two partitions - one being the reserve area. How do I delete the reserve partition so I have only one partition ...

Splitting your drive into multiple partitions has its uses, but it's a good idea to take some extra care before doing it.

We've covered proper solid state drive maintenance before, but one of the most overlooked factors in proper SSD care is partition alignment. Here's how to make sure your partitions are aligned ...

Partitions split one physical drive into multiple virtual drives. Each one uses an assigned piece of physical real estate on the media, and is treated by the operating system as a separate drive with ...