I have a hard drive which has a Primary partition ( WinMe ) and Extended Partition with four Logical Drives. XP being on one of them. I have about 18G freespace and was wondering if I could create ...

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

I'm having some issues with extended partitions.<BR><BR>Currently I have on hda:<BR><BR>1 - 15 gig NTFS partition for windows<BR>2 - extended partition<BR>5,6,7 - logical partitions in the extended ...

I read that it is desirable to have primary partitions on the hard disk that do not get corrupted, as extended partitions do. Could you please detail the procedure to make such a primary partition on ...

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 ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

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 ...

To extend a volume, unallocated space must exist, and the unallocated space must be adjacent to the target partition. In addition, the partition style of the target volume must be in NTFS format. The ...