Regarding yesterday's item on Using Entourage when switching startup partitions, readers offered numerous< variations on the alias method for solving the problem. Most readers suggested not making an ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ok, one IBM Deskstar 45GB (still smooth for 2 years!). Originally just one big NTFS partition for 2k. Got sick and tired of moving all my data (divx, mp3's, etc) over to someone else's PC over 10/100 ...

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 ...

Does any have any experience using RAID 1 on a ICH9R southbridge with multiple partitions?<BR><BR>I have two 500 GB drives which I would like to mirror. I plan on dual booting Windows XP 32 and ...

We've received notes from some readers indicating problems installing Mac OS X on drives that contain more than one partition. In these cases, some users find that formatting a drive with only a ...

Michael Crandall wants to know if dividing his hard drive into multiple, smaller partitions will improve its speed. I seriously doubt it. In theory, a smaller partition could improve seek times with ...

The term hard drive refers to the actual storage medium — either in the classic sense with rotating magnetic discs (HDD) or as a modern SSD with flash memory. The term drive refers to the electronics ...

When setting up new computers, the system installation will ask you to partition your unallocated space. This represents the space on your hard drive that has not been assigned a drive letter. Without ...