The NTFS file system was originally introduced with business applications in mind due to the enhanced reliability and security it offers. All hard drive partitions are, by default, formatted using the ...

Partitioning your hard drive is a great way to keep your data organized and cut down on the time it takes to run maintenance tasks such as disk defragmenter. Windows 7 provides tools to modify, create ...

You can't software RAID your boot/OS partition. You can create one small partition (5 GB or so) on one of the drives for the OS, and mirror the rest for your data. Or, do yourself a favor and spend ...

A Recovery Partition on Windows computers is a special partition that is used for System Recovery purposes. You can view the Recovery Partition in the Disk Management tool on your Windows computer.

In order to store data in an organized manner, operating systems now give you a feature to create separate partitions out of your HDD or SSD based storage. Microsoft has always been supporting this ...

Managing partitions is something you may not need to do frequently, but when you do, Windows' partition manager is not up to snuff.

I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...