My (internal) system disk is currently partitioned with two partitions - the system (Macintosh HD) and a partition I use for photographs (lets call it "Pictures" that I use in LR - and no, it doesn't ...

I have a 20 GB disk with ~8GB used for an HFS+ partition and the rest is unallocated.<BR><BR>I'd like to add a second partition in that space and was wondering if I can just do that with OS X's disk ...

Windows comes with a built tool— Disk Management —that offers a complete solution to manage hard disks on the computer. You can use it to shrink volume, increase volume or portion size, create new ...

While the days of expensive storage are (thankfully) long gone, the task of managing storage hasn't disappeared along with the high costs. And, somehow, administrators always seem to be just a ...

These techniques will work, though, with Windows 2000, 2003, and the upcoming Vista. Creating and formatting a partition in Windows Before you can partition a hard drive in Windows, you must have ...

Launching the DiskPart is not a big task. You are just required to open the Windows command terminals, either the Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell with the administrative rights. In this ...

Apple made it easier to resize partitions–logical divisions of a storage device into separate mountable volumes with different properties–several releases of macOS ago. A Macworld reader resized their ...

Rescue Disk The recently released IomegaWare software has a new Rescue Disk feature. In this regard, Tom McKenna provides a solution for users who find that their hard disk volumes do not mount when ...

When you get a new Mac, it comes with one startup drive (a hard disk or, in a few cases, a solid-state disk) named “Macintosh HD.” This arrangement is perfectly fine for most of us, but it’s not your ...

The Recovery Partition does not have a drive letter. Therefore, it is not visible in the File Explorer. You can view it in the Disk Management app. However, some users found the Recovery Partition ...