A partition separates a section of a physical disk into another virtual drive. When you split a hard drive into two partitions, you're creating a separate disk that your operating system (like Windows ...

My wife has a MacBook that I'm upgrading the hard drive from 160GB to 500GB so she can keep more of her movies for when she travels.<BR><BR>I partitioned the new drive, cloned the mac partition using ...

This post is brought to you by Twocanoes Software, which is releasing the sixth version of its popular Mac utility Winclone. One of the great things about owning a Mac is how easily you can run ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Acronis True Image is a good shareware which is used to create an image of the entire partition when the machine is in a clean state. With this image then, one can always restore to it should the need ...