For basic disk operations on Windows systems, administrators can use diskpart, a command-line utility that remains useful for many different drive-related jobs more than 20 years after it was released ...

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 ...

Partitioning a hard drive is like turning one hard drive into two. By creating a partition, you'll have two drive letters (such as "C" and "D" drives), and formatting one partition does not affect the ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...

Space is no longer the final frontier — at least, not as far as hard drives are concerned. We are awash in a sea of high-capacity (1TB+) disks selling at relatively low prices. One result of this ...

The art of partitioning system drives seems to have all but died. Yes, your PC probably has a partitioned drive, but you're probably not the one who partitioned it ...