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

So the GF needed a new laptop and so we buy a nice Huawei Matebook. A while in, I notice the 1tb drive, besides EFI and recovery partitions, has an 80gb C: "Windows" partition and a "Data" partition.

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 ...

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

I had an old 500 GB HDD that I'd partitioned into an OS X partition and Win7 partition. I bought a new 750 GB HDD to put in the main drive bay of my MBP and an OptiBay to hold my old HDD. My desired ...

While performing the Clean Installation of Windows, you must select a hard drive partition on which you want to install Windows. The selected hard drive partition should be empty; otherwise, ...

The active partition is the main partition of the hard drive that has a Windows operating system and it can be set as a bootable partition. On every hard drive, you can pick only one primary partition ...

The Windows team said in a blog post on Thursday: "When formatting disks from the command line using the format command, we've increased the FAT32 size limit from 32GB to 2TB". The limit is only being ...

Struggling with "GPT Partition Style Not Supported" error on your old PC? Discover proven solutions to convert partitions ...

Struggling with GPT header corruption in Windows 11? Discover proven, step-by-step methods to repair your disk without losing ...

Partition loss is not synonymous with data loss; they are different issues. It is technically a more complex task to recover data from deleted partitions than restoring accidentally deleted or ...