Enough of the times we have fallen victim to software crashes resulting in loss of precious data. What frustrates the most is that the data stored on the disk will be fine and it is just the operating ...

Supports for audio & video Preview: After installing this update, users can preview most types of videos and audio files, such as "mkv", "webm", "mts", "flv", "3gp ...

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 ...

If partitioning a drive with Disk Utility gives you unmount or resource busy errors, there may be workarounds you can use. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

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, ...

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 ...

However, in these days of humongous hard drives, partitions can also help in simple disk management. For example, I recently added a 2TB Western Digital Caviar Green drive to my daily computer.

The System Reserved Partition is a special partition in Windows that is invisible to users, including administrators. It is designed such that no drive letter is ...

I read that it is desirable to have primary partitions on the hard disk that do not get corrupted, as extended partitions do. Could you please detail the procedure to make such a primary partition on ...

Windows 11/10 streamlined the process of using unused space in disk partitions. Making further partitions became easier. But the new structure hasn’t been bug-free ...