Windows 11/10 streamlined the process of using unused space in disk partitions. Making further partitions became easier. But the new structure hasn’t been bug-free. When you try to format raw space or ...

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 ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...

What is the GPT protective partition? Why is my disk showing as GPT protective partition in Disk Management? How to fix a GPT protective partition without losing data and regain access to it? In this ...

Apple made it easier to resize partitions–logical divisions of a storage device into separate mountable volumes with different properties–several releases of macOS ago. A Macworld reader resized their ...

If partitioning a drive with Disk Utility gives you unmount or resource busy errors, there may be workarounds you can use. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

There are lots of reasons why you might want to partition your Mac. Perhaps you want to partition your Mac to run Windows, or maybe you want to install Mojave beta on a partition, so that you can run ...

One drawback to having multiple users on OS X is there is no easy way to limit the amount of disk space used by that user. If a user has write access to a file system, then they can fill the drive ...