Disk partitioning--separating your hard drive into multiple independent volumes--can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches.

Partitioning splits your hard drive into multiple drives: You don’t actually take a saw to your internal disk, but you do split it up into chunks at the lowest level of the operating system. The ...

Windows XP users can see their hard disk partitions by right clicking on My Computer, selecting Manage, then Disk Management. Perhaps the most common use for a hidden partition is storing a ...

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 ...

EaseUS Partition Master is a free disk partition manager software for Windows PC tool that helps in managing partitions on a disk. This review of latest version shows its pros and cons.

SSD, Hard Disk or Partition not detected when installing Windows 11/10 First, if you are reinstalling Windows and your PC is normally booted up, your HDD works fine.

Using DiskPart to clean and format a disk partition doesn't have to be hard. Just follow these simple steps.

Besides disk partitions, another option that is more applicable to multiuser system setups is disk quotas, which is a software-based allotment of drive space for a specific user or group.

Apple's Disk Utility by default will only show you user-accessible drive partitions, but here is how to view all drive partitions in Apple's disk management utility.