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 ...

If you just installed a new hard drive in your computer and you are running the Ubuntu operating system, you must partition and format the new drive before you can use it. To use the drive with Ubuntu ...

Automatic partitioning is safe and fast for standard installs—choose it if unsure. Manual partitioning is needed if you dual-boot, use LVM, or want separate filesystems for different partitions. Plan ...

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 makes managing the operating system, files, and file formats of each partition easier. For example, you can install Windows 11/10 on one partition and store movies or ...

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 ...

Western Digital WD VelociRaptor internal hard drive. Solid-state drives are all the rage lately, thanks to their high transfer speeds and ultrafast access times, but most people still use cheap, ...

i have a hard disk that used to have a seagate diskmangler on it, <BR><BR>i want to put it in a linux test box, but when linux boots up, it freezes at partition check on boot up.<BR><BR>if i need to ...