Before partitioning your HDD or SSD, it's important to keep a backup of your files. Make a good backup of your important data to avoid possible loss of important data. The following methods apply to ...

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A Recovery Partition on Windows computers is a special partition that is used for System Recovery purposes. You can view the Recovery Partition in the Disk Management tool on your Windows computer.

In order to store data in an organized manner, operating systems now give you a feature to create separate partitions out of your HDD or SSD based storage. Microsoft has always been supporting this ...

Partitioning your hard drive is a great way to keep your data organized and cut down on the time it takes to run maintenance tasks such as disk defragmenter. Windows 7 provides tools to modify, create ...

Space is no longer the final frontier — at least, not as far as hard drives are concerned. We are awash in a sea of high-capacity (1TB+) disks selling at relatively low prices. One result of this ...