If you just installed a new hard drive in your computer and you are running the Ubuntu operating system, you must partition and format the new drive before you can use it. To use the drive with Ubuntu ...

Splitting your drive into multiple partitions has its uses, but it's a good idea to take some extra care before doing it.

Unlike internal hard drives, most external hard drives come already partitioned and formatted. However, if you need multiple partitions for your business data, you may need to remove or shrink the ...

Boot Camp will add a partition on-the-fly to your system drive, but there are some things that can stand in the way of that process. AppleInsider explains how to fix most of the issues preventing you ...

Sometimes installing OS X may result in odd behavior if the partition scheme on the drive is not set up properly. If you are experiencing problems, a simple repartition during setup may be an easy fix ...

Vista’s Disk Management utility can partition your hard drive with ease. As I wrote the other day, I’m making my way to Windows 7 a little bit at a time. It’s getting a fresh install on a new ...

Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

Ok, here's my situation, I have been using an old 20 gig ata-66 drive as my primary partition (with win2k installed on it) and I have recently installed a new 40 gig ata-100 drive. At the moment its ...

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...

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Short Question: How do I run chkdsk on a partition that does not have a drive letter associated with it?<BR><BR>Long story:<BR>I've got an HP Pavilion dv6000 notebook, and one of the "gee whiz, that's ...