Reader Sonya Jefferson tells a tale of two partitions. She writes: I used Disk Utility to format a drive so that it has two partitions. I’d now like to combine those partitions into a single one. How ...

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 ...

I want to partition the card so I can use it for an OS install disk (Mac OS Extended GUID) in one partition and as a camera disk (MS-DOS FAT) in the other partition. Disk utility can do the partition, ...

When you get a new Mac, it comes with one startup drive (a hard disk or, in a few cases, a solid-state disk) named “Macintosh HD.” This arrangement is perfectly fine for most of us, but it’s not your ...

The Windows operating system divides your computer's hard drive into specific spaces known as "partitions." Data from one partition does not cross over into another partition unless the user copies it ...

I just finished installing OpenSUSE 10.2 on my laptop. While the process went without a hitch (image gallery of the install with instructions and potential stumbling blocks to follow later today) and ...