You can partition a hard drive on a computer to create multiple drive letters with a single drive. You can use the Disk Management utility in Windows to partition a drive by shrinking an existing ...

The built-in tools make it easy to partition your Mac hard drive. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you want to install a beta version of macOS, either for software development or for simply ...

Partitioning your hard drive sounds like a technically involved task that most people don’t need to bother with—but it’s actually relatively simple to do, doesn’t have to cost you any money, and can ...

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 ...

Increasing the size of the System Reserved Partition without third-party software requires the execution of the required commands in the Command Prompt. Therefore, this method is only for advanced ...

When you buy a new hard drive, your first impulse may be to connect it to your Mac and start copying files to the new drive. But with all that new storage space it might make sense to partition the ...

The Read Only attribute in Windows 11/10 protects a file from being overwritten, modified, or deleted. As the name implies, when you set the Read Only attribute to a file or folder, you can only view ...

Editor’s note (1/12/10): For more-current advice, see “How (and Why) to Partition Your Hard Drive.” No matter the capacity of your PC’s hard drive, chances are that it’s set up to function as one ...

The Windows operating system has a username and password-protection feature, but it is only for signing in to the operating system and not to protect hard disk partitions. If your business stores ...