Before you can partition a hard drive in Windows, you must have installed a new unused hard disk, deleted an existing partition, or have some unpartitioned space available on an existing drive.

The disk management tool Disk Utility, which comes with OS X, contains most of the tools necessary for managing partition of drives.

The available space on your PC's storage drive can be divided into separate blocks, or "partitions," but how do you do it and is it a good idea?

Use Windows' built-in Disk Management tool to make your backups easier, to set up an emergency recovery partition, or even to install another operating system.

Low disk space errors might be annoying and seriously affect the performance of computers. This page aims to help Windows users to free up more disk space on PCs with five efficient methods.

Using DiskPart to clean and format a disk partition doesn't have to be hard. Just follow these simple steps.

One drawback to having multiple users on OS X is there is no easy way to limit the amount of disk space used by that user. If a user has write access to a file system, then they can fill the drive ...

You can then also restore your partition from a clone using Disk Utility as well. Also read: How to partition a Mac hard drive or SSD, or create a APFS volume and Best disk partition software for Mac.

Tucked away in the Utilities folder, Disk Utility and its First Aid feature can be used to check if a disk is damaged and repair it, create a disk image, partition a disk, and so much more ...