Despite virtualization becoming more relevant and multiple drives (including external) installed on your PC, there are still good reasons to use multiple partitions on Windows PCs. Regarding Windows, ...

Partitioning your hard drive sounds like a technically involved task that most people don’t need to bother with—but it’s actually relatively simple to do, doesn’t have to cost you any money, and can ...

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 ...

Disk partitions are necessary to organize your data into different drives. It also makes sense to keep the system drives separate and run scheduled maintenance tasks (such as defragmenting and ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...

What is the GPT protective partition? Why is my disk showing as GPT protective partition in Disk Management? How to fix a GPT protective partition without losing data and regain access to it? In this ...

The feature-packed MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro Edition 9 includes just about everything you need to manage your PC's partitions, but a few niggles leave room for improvement in a future update. Lets ...

Windows isn’t the only operating system you can run on your PC. Provided you have space on your local drive, you can use multiple partitions to run different Linux distros, create storage partitions, ...