While performing the Clean Installation of Windows, you must select a hard drive partition on which you want to install Windows. The selected hard drive partition should be empty; otherwise, ...

If you have a computer running Windows 11, the day will come when you may have to upgrade the hard drive because it's running ...

If you receive Windows cannot be installed to this disk, Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS while installing Windows 11/10, then this post ...

With Windows 7's release just around the corner, now's a great time to get your PC ready for the new operating system. First step: separate your data onto a dedicated partition. A partition is what ...

Re-sizing partition after Windows XP installation Several users have inquired about modifying the size of their Windows partition after setting up Boot Camp and installing Windows XP. So far, there ...

In Vista Hands On #7: Move user data to another drive, I recommended using two separate physical drives for maximum data security. In that configuration, if your primary drive fails it doesn’t wipe ...

One key technique in the Windows repair playbook involves wiping out everything on the storage device (typically C:\) from which Windows boots and on which that OS resides. Prosaically enough, this ...

I'm running Windows XP (no SP), and I have one hard drive with 2 partitions- one for data, and one for Windows and installed programs. When I reinstalled Windows a while ago, it bumped my data ...

CliffSees is about to upgrade his PC to Windows 7. He asked the Answer Line forum if he can upgrade his PC’s recover partition, as well. Most PCs today ship with two partitions on the hard drive. The ...