Regarding yesterday's item on Using Entourage when switching startup partitions, readers offered numerous< variations on the alias method for solving the problem. Most readers suggested not making an ...

Unlike internal hard drives, most external hard drives come already partitioned and formatted. However, if you need multiple partitions for your business data, you may need to remove or shrink the ...

Before partitioning your HDD or SSD, it's important to keep a backup of your files. Make a good backup of your important data to avoid possible loss of important data. The following methods apply to ...

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 ...

Despite virtualization becoming more relevant and multiple drives (including external) installed on your PC, there are still good reasons to use multiple partitions on Windows PCs. Regarding Windows, ...

A computer can recognize a second partition on a USB hard drive only if it can read the partition. If computer is unable to read the secondary partition, the partition may be in an unsupported format ...

Where I work we have quite a few computers with the same exact same hardware and software all used for the exact same purpose. These computers were originally set up by our parent company by people ...

Does any have any experience using RAID 1 on a ICH9R southbridge with multiple partitions?<BR><BR>I have two 500 GB drives which I would like to mirror. I plan on dual booting Windows XP 32 and ...

We've received notes from some readers indicating problems installing Mac OS X on drives that contain more than one partition. In these cases, some users find that formatting a drive with only a ...

The term hard drive refers to the actual storage medium — either in the classic sense with rotating magnetic discs (HDD) or as a modern SSD with flash memory. The term drive refers to the electronics ...