The 'OS Partition' trick: Why I never install Windows on the whole drive ...

Drive partitioning is not the hot thing that it once was.

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 ...

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 multiple-partition setup helps organize your data, because you can dedicate blocks of storage to a specific task. As an example, you might have programs on your C: partition and business documents ...

Leo knows that data is safer if you don’t keep it on the same partition as Windows and your programs. I tell him how to move it in Windows XP. Backing up, recovering from a disaster, and moving to a ...

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 ...

Database vendors have been advocating data partitioning techniques for managing large volumes of data over the past several years. Oracle has pioneered this trend with Oracle Database 8 and improved ...

I guess the topic/subject says it all. Is it possible to do? The machine in question has barely anything stored on the second partition, the first partition is filling up, and we'd like the drive to ...

In a recent Mac 911 entry I explained how to turn two hard drive partitions into one. And while words are great, sometimes it’s more helpful to see something like this in action. And so was this ...