Hard drive partitioning is useful for creating virtual drives and creating disk volumes that can be used for storing particular file types. For example, if you did not want to keep all of your media and documents on Drive (C:), you can create a hard drive partition that will be a new volume separate from [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Your PC Doesn’t Support Virtualization? Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows 8
The word is out: Microsoft released the Windows 8 Developer Preview recently and many users want to try it out. All it takes is a CPU that supports virtualization and virtualization software. Wait a second. What if your CPU does not support virtualization? Does this mean that you can’t try out Windows 8? As long [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
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Creating a New Hard Drive Partition using Windows 7
Windows 7 has a built-in utility to create, resize, or delete hard drive partitions. No third party software utilities are required. You are able to expand or condense partitions after creating them using the inherent function rather than blowing cash on a third party utility that is simply going to perform the actions in this [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Drive-Thru Disk Management Software
Drive-Thru is a portable disk management software for Windows. The software offers direct disk related configuration changes in an easy to use interface. The program displays different options on the startup window, and in three other tabs. In the drive security tab it is possible to hide drives from the computer, lock drives and disallow [...]