We explain how to speed up your PC with an advanced technique known as "short stroking," which involves finding the optimal partition size and the fastest parts of your hard drive's platters.

One of the best ways to secure a laptop or desktop computer is to encrypt your hard drive or, failing that, a partition. We go over how you can encrypt a Drive on Linux using VeraCrypt, a free ...

Use a Windows tool to make your backups easier, set up an emergency recovery partition or install another OS. By Patrick Miller, PC World – Disk partitioning–separating one physical hard drive ...

Partitions allow you to segment a single drive for separating programs from files or installing a second OS.

Back up your files before formatting a USB drive in GParted to avoid data loss. After installing GParted, make sure to select the correct drive using the drop-down menu in the top-right corner. If you ...

Hey y'all, I got a little question about how to partition my hard drives for a completely new install of XP Pro.I have a 15GB IBM 75GXP, and a slower 10GB Maxtor. It seems most people recommend a ...

You can partition a hard drive with Windows' Disk Management utility by shrinking the existing partition and formatting the new unallocated partition.