Ok, my computer crashed two days ago, so I reinstalled windows. I evidently installed it on the wrong drive because now my Windows directory (system partition) and my boot files (boot patition ...

GPT is replacing MBR simply because it has fewer limitations. For example, the maximum partition size of an MBR disk that's ...

Learn how to clone or mirror Boot Hard Drive for UEFI partition on Windows 11/10. While MBR partion is easy to mirror, this needs more attention.

A System Reserved partition contains the Boot Manager and Boot Configuration files. This Boot Configuration Data is required by Windows every time you start your system.

The System Rescue CD includes open source tools GParted and Partimage, which can create a new partition and save your fresh Windows installation as a restorable image for the price of zero dollars.

In Chapter 5 of his new book File System Forensic Analysis, Brian Carrier discusses PC-based partitions, how they work and also takes a look at their data structure.

While doing some disk swapping yesterday, I kinda screwed things up. I had used Clonezilla to clone my 500GB SSD to a 1TB SSD and that went off without a hitch. Unplugged old system drive and the ...

One drive, three partitions. Partitioning your hard drive essentially tells your computer to treat portions of that drive as separate entities. If you keep your system and apps on a partition ...

The active partition is a special flag assigned to only one partition on a hard drive that the Master Boot Record (MBR) uses to boot your computer into an operating system.

Here's how to split your Mac hard drive into multiple partitions or volumes so that you can run more than one OS on your Mac, or divide up your Mac so different users can have their own space. We ...