Cedric Crawley wants to keep Windows 7 and his applications in one partition, and his data in another. Creating a separate data partition protects both your system and your data. See Reasons to ...

With Windows 7's release just around the corner, now's a great time to get your PC ready for the new operating system. First step: separate your data onto a dedicated partition. A partition is what ...

I agree with this recommendation on every operating system you might use, including Windows Vista. As a matter of aesthetics, it's nice to keep your data from mingling with system files, and as a ...

A disk partition can be thought of as a division or "part" of a real hard disk drive. Really, it's only a logical separation ...

hi,<P>i am dual booting win2k and linux and have each os on a different hdd. On the win hd i have a os and a data partition. I can and have mounted the os partition using the "mount -t /dev/hda1 ...

Reader Kevin Riley has a splitting dilemma. He writes: I have a 1TB FireWire hard drive that is about a quarter full. I’d like to partition the drive but don’t want to have to back up all my data to ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Supports for audio & video Preview: After installing this update, users can preview most types of videos and audio files, such as "mkv", "webm", "mts", "flv", "3gp ...

I was playing CS yesterday, when system freezed. Resetted and after boot, all logical partitions on my Quantum lct 30Gb where gone. Since the primary partition (800Mb) only held win98 and all other ...