Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

So I've been dual-booting linux and windows variants since around September now, playing around with things, etc. getting used to stuff and whatnot. In the time that I've had a linux distro on my ...

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 ...

In another article in this issue of Linux Journal [page 84], I talk about my experiences with the new solid state drive (SSD) I installed on my laptop. One of the things I didn't mention in the ...

Could you add a second operating system to your PC, create a new hard drive partition and resize the existing ones — all before lunch? With Symantec Corp.’s Norton PartitionMagic 8.0, you might be ...

Last week we mentioned how a Linux live CD can save you in times of crisis. But the usefulness doesn't stop there. Help2Go has a tutorial up detailing how you can partition your Windows hard drive any ...