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 ...

You can partition a hard drive on a computer to create multiple drive letters with a single drive. You can use the Disk Management utility in Windows to partition a drive by shrinking an existing ...

You can partition a hard drive in Windows 10 to create dedicated portions of the hard drive that your computer will recognize separately. Every hard drive has at least one partition, usually called "C ...

Partitions split one physical drive into multiple virtual drives. Each one uses an assigned piece of physical real estate on the media, and is treated by the operating system as a separate drive with ...

Dan Graziano is an associate editor for CNET. His work has appeared on BGR, Fox News, Fox Business, and Yahoo News, among other publications. When he isn't tinkering with the latest gadgets and gizmos ...

The feature-packed MiniTool Partition Wizard Pro Edition 9 includes just about everything you need to manage your PC's partitions, but a few niggles leave room for improvement in a future update. Lets ...

Editor’s note (1/12/10): For more-current advice, see “How (and Why) to Partition Your Hard Drive.” No matter the capacity of your PC’s hard drive, chances are that it’s set up to function as one ...

The Windows operating system has a username and password-protection feature, but it is only for signing in to the operating system and not to protect hard disk partitions. If your business stores ...