The Windows operating system divides your computer's hard drive into specific spaces known as "partitions." Data from one partition does not cross over into another partition unless the user copies it ...

Windows XP allows users to split their hard drives into partitions. A partition is a separate block of space on a drive which usually gets represented with a different drive letter. Partitioning a ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...