If you’re installing a new hard drive, or need to wipe your drive clean for that “fresh” feeling, you’ll end up formatting your drive. Formatting will check the drive for errors, and prepare it for ...

In order to use a hard drive, or a portion of a hard drive, in Windows you need to first partition it and then format it. This process will then assign a drive letter to the partition allowing you to ...

When Windows runs low on space on the system partition, your PC starts to slow down, updates fail to install, errors pop up ...

I have a 4TB SSD on loan at my office (we're a flash storage company, so... toys!) and I'm trying to get it to work on macOS as an experiment. Problem is, it shows up in Disk Utility as a 1.64TB drive ...

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 ...

I'm upgrading a Win 8.1 laptop's SSD (Samsung Ativ Book 9) to a new 2TB drive for a family member, and I have a question about which, if any, recovery partitions I should copy over, or just allow ...

We've covered proper solid state drive maintenance before, but one of the most overlooked factors in proper SSD care is partition alignment. Here's how to make sure your partitions are aligned ...