Disk volumes may be identified by either their assigned drive letter or volume name. By default, disk volumes installed on your computer are named Local Disk in the Windows 7 operating system. If you ...

When you get a new Mac, it comes with one startup drive (a hard disk or, in a few cases, a solid-state disk) named “Macintosh HD.” This arrangement is perfectly fine for most of us, but it’s not your ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

These techniques will work, though, with Windows 2000, 2003, and the upcoming Vista. Creating and formatting a partition in Windows Before you can partition a hard drive in Windows, you must have ...

Linux’s Logical Volume Manager is a handy framework for configuring disks and volumes. Learn how to use LVM to grow and shrink existing volumes as needed. The Logical Volume Manager commands in Linux ...

While the days of expensive storage are (thankfully) longgone, the task of managing storage hasn’t disappeared along with the high costs. And, somehow, administrators always seem to be just a gigabyte ...

While creating a partition on a hard disk by using the Diskpart utility, some users encountered the error “There is not enough usable space for this operation ...

Before we discuss fixes for this problem, let’s look at the possible causes of this error. You will receive this error message if: There are some partitions on your ...