If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

Partitioning your hard drive sounds like a technically involved task that most people don’t need to bother with—but it’s actually relatively simple to do, doesn’t have to cost you any money, and can ...

Formatting a hard drive along with the install of a new OS is the best option. The vast majority of operating system installations provide a "format" option as part of the installation process.

I just upgraded my PC from a lowly p2 400 to a stonking 1.2ghz AMD ThundersKunk KT7-A-RAID with 256mb pc150 SDRAM.<P>As part of this I moved my recently purchsed ata100 hard drive which was previously ...