There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most PCs come from the factory with a single partition on their hard drive, meaning that it shows up as one drive in the Computer window (as C:, typically). But keeping your data, applications, and ...

Partitioning your hard drive is a great way to keep your data organized and cut down on the time it takes to run maintenance tasks such as disk defragmenter. Windows 7 provides tools to modify, create ...

Increasing the size of the System Reserved Partition without third-party software requires the execution of the required commands in the Command Prompt. Therefore, this method is only for advanced ...

Synology DSM partitions a 2tb drive as 2.38g for the OS 2.00gb for the swap file and an 127mb "unallocated" before user created partitions and 99mb "unallocated" after. I think the space for the OS ...

To be able to work with USB drives that have multiple partitions, your PC has to be Windows 10, v1703, with the most recent version of the Windows ADK installed. Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit ...

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 ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

Here's a couple of related questions, rolled into one, which I am hoping someone can help me out with. These all relate to my attempting to understand the uses of the network block device (nbd) and ...