First of all, thanks to the Ars community ~ I've been a lurker for a while and this is my first post. I recently bought a laptop for a relative ~ an ASUS X200CA; a low-end affair, yes, but he's ...

Command-line enthusiasts know that if you can do something in the regular Mac interface, you can usually do it faster using Terminal. But as of Mac OS X 10.4.6, Terminal also lets you perform a feat ...

Kevin Germino keeps programs and data on separate partitions, but he needs to adjust their sizes. Can he do this safely? I know of two programs that can resize the partitions on your hard drive, ...

In the past when you needed to resize a partition in Windows you had to use a 3rd party utility such as Partition Magic, Disk Director, or open source utilities such as Gparted and Ranish Partition ...

The UneasySilence weblog details how to expand a Windows partition for an installation of Windows on Parallels. Parallels comes with an image tool that lets you easily resize your virtual hard disk, ...

I would like to switch over to Linux. I am currently running WindowsXP with a single partition that is NTFS (dynamic disk).<BR><BR>Is there a free program that I can use to consolidate the space on my ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

Conrado Bryson Bush wants to resize the partitions on his hard drive. Once upon a time, that chore required you to delete and recreate your partitions, thus losing everything on them. Luckily, it’s ...

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 ...