If partitioning a drive with Disk Utility gives you unmount or resource busy errors, there may be workarounds you can use. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

Synology DSM partitions a 2tb drive as 2.38g for the OS 2.00gb for the swap file and an 127mb "unallocated" before user created partitions and 99mb "unallocated" after. I think the space for the OS ...

The disk partitioning utility built into Windows 7 doesn't let you extend partitions to the left, so to enlarge your leftmost partition, you need a free repartitioning program. Dennis O'Reilly began ...

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've had this argument with some colleagues of mine ... I thought I would get the Ars Hive Mind involved.<BR><BR>The typical "old school" (as I call it) thinking involves intricate partitioning ...

This software is good for making sure you always have data backups and can recover them when needed, but it’s limited to only Windows users. Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every ...

I started out looking for a handy disk partitioning tool to repair a colleague’s ailing computer. I ended up finding a toolbox full of very handy repair and system maintenance apps. As a bonus, I got ...

The BitMap file is responsible for keeping track of all the used and unused clusters on an NTFS volume, however, it can show the “The Volume Bitmap is incorrect ...