I left 40 gigs of unpartitioned space on my HD intending to save it for playing around with other distros. Of course, now I'm running out of space and need to reclaim it and put it into use.

Apple announced OS X Yosemite at its Worldwide Developers conference Monday, and among other features, the new version is ushering in the single biggest visual change to OS X in, well, ever. OS X’s ...

Get more out of your Mac computer by dual booting it with two operating systems rather than purchasing a new computer. Savings costs is key for a successful small business. Apple's Boot Camp -- ...

Partitioning your hard drive divides your disk into multiple independent sections. The partitions function as separate drives, so that if one gets corrupted, no other partition's files suffer any ...

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 ...

When we talk about “drives” labeled C:, D:, and so forth, we’re actually talking about partitions, sections of the physical drive. Every hard drive in use has ...

Select your primary partition on the upper part of the menu (usually named C:). At the bottom part of the menu, you can now view all the partition volumes for the C: partition. Right-click on the ...

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 ...

USBs come in different shapes and sizes, from a pen drive that sticks in your pocket to heavy duty hard drives that are shackled to your desk for all eternity. Setting the various advantages that of ...

Windows isn’t the only operating system you can run on your PC. Provided you have space on your local drive, you can use multiple partitions to run different Linux distros, create storage partitions, ...