Most Windows computers contain at least one hidden partition that's invisible when you browse your computer's hard drive. Windows often creates a hidden system partition it uses during startup, and ...

Windows isn’t the only operating system you can run on your PC. Provided you have space on your local drive, you can use multiple partitions to run different Linux distros, create storage partitions, ...

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 ...

Aomei Partition Assistant is a top-flight partition utility and uniquely offers the ability to create Windows To Go disks from any flavor of Windows 8. When the folks at Aomei contacted me about ...

You can partition a hard drive in Windows 10 to create dedicated portions of the hard drive that your computer will recognize separately. Every hard drive has at least one partition, usually called "C ...

Says KB952910 – This behavior is by design: After installing Windows, when you display the list of disks for defragmentation from in the Disk Defragmenter tool, hidden partitions that are not mounted ...

The Read Only attribute in Windows 11/10 protects a file from being overwritten, modified, or deleted. As the name implies, when you set the Read Only attribute to a file or folder, you can only view ...

Fast Startup can also prevent you from shutting down your PC. If the system fails to power off and instead sends you back to the login screen, chances are Fast Startup is to blame. Conversely, it may ...