Unlike internal hard drives, most external hard drives come already partitioned and formatted. However, if you need multiple partitions for your business data, you may need to remove or shrink the ...

Computers (specifically laptops) generally only come with one hard drive or SSD, which is where all of your data is stored.

Regarding yesterday's item on Using Entourage when switching startup partitions, readers offered numerous< variations on the alias method for solving the problem. Most readers suggested not making an ...

We've received notes from some readers indicating problems installing Mac OS X on drives that contain more than one partition. In these cases, some users find that formatting a drive with only 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 ...

On purchasing a brand new computer, the hard drive usually has a single partition. However, you may need multiple partitions to organize your data and even protect it from data loss. You can view ...

The first thing I do when I get a new Mac (or a new PC for that matter) is wipe out the hard drive, make two partitions, and do a fresh install on one of the partitions. I then store all my data on ...

Ok, one IBM Deskstar 45GB (still smooth for 2 years!). Originally just one big NTFS partition for 2k. Got sick and tired of moving all my data (divx, mp3's, etc) over to someone else's PC over 10/100 ...

I'll be upgrading my system mid to late January to a (probably) Abit KR7A-RAID based machine.<P>I'll be adding two 40GB ATA133 Maxtor drives to the RAID channels and utilising my existing 30GB ATA66, ...