I tried to resize a partition with Partition Magic. There were 2 partitions there. I made all the changes in PM and hit apply changes. PC rebooted. While my pc was in dos and was doing the changes it ...

With Windows 7's release just around the corner, now's a great time to get your PC ready for the new operating system. First step: separate your data onto a dedicated partition. A partition is what ...

Can't decide whether you want to dual boot that second OS or virtualize it? Debate no more: you can have both. Here's how to dual boot and virtualize the same partition on your Windows PC or Mac. Once ...

When you install Windows 11/10 on a clean, formatted disk, it first creates a partition on the disk at the beginning of the hard disk. This partition is called the System Reserved Partition. After ...

Aomei Partition Assistant is a top-flight partition utility and uniquely offers the ability to create Windows To Go disks from any flavor of Windows 8. When the folks at Aomei contacted me about ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Windows can and will crash — and after it does it may not boot normally. To be prepared for worst-case scenarios, learn how to create a bootable recovery partition on your system drive. From time to ...

Now that Windows 7 is creeping up on general availability, you'll probably want to remove your RC installation. I assume most of you interested are running these pre-release versions in a dual boot ...