I'm trying to clear all the partitions on an old compaq computer. it has a 2.5gb hd. 2gb are in the primary partition and there is a .5gb extended partition. Initially, there was no logical partition.

I have recently built a new Windows 98 pc, and am having some issues regarding hard drive space. The computer has 2 160GB hard drives, both of which are brand new, and blank. However, running Fdisk to ...

Vincent Danen goes over the basics of using the standard dd tool to back up and copy partitions and drives. There are a lot of backup utilities available, but the simplest backup tool is available ...

Imagine your disk drive has just become a very expensive hockey puck. Imagine you have had a fire, and your computer case now looks like something Salvador Dali would like to paint. Now what? That's ...

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 ...

If you need to delete the Master Boot Record partition from a hard drive, a number of free tools are available to help you through the process, some built into the Windows operating system. Before ...

When using Boot Camp Assistant on your macOS, if you receive an error saying — Please format the USB drive as single FAT partition, then this post will help you ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...

One of the most difficult areas to troubleshoot is the hard drive. So, wouldn't you kill to have a set of troubleshooting steps to guide you? Read on as Faithe Wempen reveals her seven methods for ...