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 ...

Computers (specifically laptops) generally only come with one hard drive or SSD, which is where all of your data is stored. However, you can split your disk into partitions that are treated as ...

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 ...

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 ...

A multiple-partition setup helps organize your data, because you can dedicate blocks of storage to a specific task. As an example, you might have programs on your C: partition and business documents ...

I have two partitions on my MBP but would like to put Win7 on it as well so I can have SolidWorks running inside Windows. I didn't install Boot Camp before partitioning and now I can't install it at ...

The first thing I do when I get a new Mac (or a new PC for that matter) is wipe out the hard drive, make two partitions, and do a fresh install on one of the partitions. I then store all my data on ...

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 ...

I'll be upgrading my system mid to late January to a (probably) Abit KR7A-RAID based machine.<P>I'll be adding two 40GB ATA133 Maxtor drives to the RAID channels and utilising my existing 30GB ATA66, ...

While performing the Clean Installation of Windows, you must select a hard drive partition on which you want to install Windows. The selected hard drive partition should be empty; otherwise, ...