Editor’s note (1/12/10): For more-current advice, see “How (and Why) to Partition Your Hard Drive.” No matter the capacity of your PC’s hard drive, chances are that it’s set up to function as one ...

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?

Macrorit Partition Expert Free Edition is a powerful, free partitioning program that enables you to extend, create, and format partitions, resolve low disk space issues, and manage disk space easily ...

Partitioning your hard drive sounds like a technically involved task that most people don’t need to bother with—but it’s actually relatively simple to do, doesn’t have to cost you any money, and can ...

Putting your applications and data in a partition separate from Windows' system files makes your backups faster and reduces the risk of a virus attack. Dennis O'Reilly began writing about workplace ...

Ubuntu can format hard drive partitions with the FAT16 file system, used by older operating systems such as Microsoft DOS and Windows 95. Some older devices may also require a hard drive partition ...