Partitioning your hard drive is a great way to keep your data organized and cut down on the time it takes to run maintenance tasks such as disk defragmenter. Windows 7 provides tools to modify, create ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. To safely delete a recovery partition, you must use special commands in PowerShell or Command Prompt. After deletion, the space ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...

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