There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

For most people, partition management tasks are not a routine activity. How often do you need to erase a hard drive, resize partitions or copy your operating system and data from one disk to another?

This full-featured partitioning utility is powerful, but charges extra for its Linux boot disc. It’s a rare user who’ll need more in the way of partitioning abilities than those provided by Windows.

These techniques will work, though, with Windows 2000, 2003, and the upcoming Vista. Creating and formatting a partition in Windows Before you can partition a hard drive in Windows, you must have ...

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 ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...