Windows has always had what many people believe to be an unconventional and frustrating method of addressing physical hard disks.  I’m talking here about drive letters.  These virtual constructs, I can only really describe them as that, are pointers to the actual names of the disks in your computer.  This works in a different way [...]

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USB flash drives cannot be partitioned in the Windows operating if the drive is identified as removable media. The only way to partition the USB flash drive is to flip the removable bit so that it is recognized as fixed media instead which can be partitioned like any normal hard drive.

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System Partitioning is a little scary, especially if your as stupid as me and don’t back your files up before you start. I have been using Ubuntu installed through Wubi, a very convenient and efficient way for anyone to try out Linux beyond a Live CD or Virtual machine. While Wubi is great It does [...]

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If you ever lost a partition on a hard drive you know how hard it can be to recover the data that was stored on that partition. Possible reasons can be system crashes or malicious software among other things. If you are ever in a situation like this you might want to try the software [...]

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I usually use a hard disk manager to partition a new drive that I bought. I did so after building my new computer. It’s not really necessary anymore these days but I personally prefer different partitions for a better overview. The Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8.0 Special Edition can partition hard drives but provides other [...]

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Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 is a sophisticated hard disk partitioning tool for Windows. You can use it to create, merge and edit partitions on your hard drive but also to backup data for instance. Hard Disks can have several partitions that are then accessible through independent drive letters. My first Samsung hard drive with a capacity of 160 Gigabytes is divided into two partitions with the drive letters C and E for instance.

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Windows file operations are displayed in an basic window with no option to enhance them at all. This can be really tiresome if you copy hundreds of files only to realize that the operation was terminated somewhere in the middle. There is no possibility to resume transfers as well and no list showing all file operations including their status.

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