You can partition a hard drive in Windows 10 to create dedicated portions of the hard drive that your computer will recognize separately. Every hard drive has at least one partition, usually called "C ...

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, ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

Reader Richard Lanier has a Windows issue—no, not that issue, but rather one involving size. He writes: I’m running Windows 7 in a Boot Camp partition on my MacBook Pro. When I first configured Boot ...

The Windows operating system has a username and password-protection feature, but it is only for signing in to the operating system and not to protect hard disk partitions. If your business stores ...

Short Question: How do I run chkdsk on a partition that does not have a drive letter associated with it?<BR><BR>Long story:<BR>I've got an HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook, and one of the "gee whiz, that's ...