Most PCs come from the factory with a single partition on their hard drive, meaning that it shows up as one drive in the Computer window (as C:, typically). But keeping your data, applications, and ...

A good way to separate your data is to partition your Mac hard drive. A partition splits your storage into two spaces, like putting a trunk divider in your car. The most common use case is to install ...

Disk partitioning–separating your hard drive into multiple independent volumes–can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches. PC World’s Patrick Miller shows you how to use the Disk Management ...

External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your device is not detected by Windows or macOS. If you have important data trapped ...

A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

If you moved your operating system from a mechanical hard drive to a solid-state drive (SSD), the partitions may not be aligned properly. If this is the case, you’ll notice slower performance, but ...