On purchasing a brand new computer, the hard drive usually has a single partition. However, you may need multiple partitions to organize your data and even protect it from data loss. You can view ...

Apple announced OS X Yosemite at its Worldwide Developers conference Monday, and among other features, the new version is ushering in the single biggest visual change to OS X in, well, ever. OS X’s ...

If you get the We couldn’t create a new partition or locate an existing one when you try to clean install Windows 11 or Windows 10 on your device, you can try the recommended solutions in the order ...

Partitioning your hard drive divides your disk into multiple independent sections. The partitions function as separate drives, so that if one gets corrupted, no other partition's files suffer any ...

I had an old 500 GB HDD that I'd partitioned into an OS X partition and Win7 partition. I bought a new 750 GB HDD to put in the main drive bay of my MBP and an OptiBay to hold my old HDD. My desired ...

USBs come in different shapes and sizes, from a pen drive that sticks in your pocket to heavy duty hard drives that are shackled to your desk for all eternity. Setting the various advantages that of ...

I’ve written quite a bit about installing Lion (OS X 10.7) and about the benefits of creating a bootable installer disc or drive. While the latter process isn’t prohibitively difficult, it’s still a ...

Q: I am running 64-bit Windows 7 on a computer with a 250-gigabyte solid-state drive and a 1-terabyte hard drive. Disk 0, the SSD drive, contains two partitions — Data (the system volume created by ...

The Microsoft Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 each come in different storage capacities. The Surface 2 can be purchased as a 32GB or 64GB model. The Surface Pro 2 can be purchased in sizes ranging from ...