September 19, 2011
As you may know, Mac formatting and PC formatting for external hard drives are totally different. Granted, it’s possible you may already know how to partition an external hard drive DIY-style. Furthermore, your hard drive may already come with onboard software that does it for you. However, let’s take a look at how to do so.
June 9, 2011
In Windows operating systems, hard drive partitions and external drives are identified by drive letters from A to Z. Some of the letters are reserved, but other partitions or optical drives are assigned subsequent letters. In some cases, however, a permanent drive letter assignment is desirable. Here’s how you can permanently assign drive letters to selected devices.
May 31, 2011
In Windows 7 and Windows Vista, resizing your volumes or re-partitioning your hard drive has become a lot easier than in previous Windows versions. However, there are still a few pitfalls that will require you to use third party applications rather than the internal Windows Disk Management tool. In this article I will show you how to change the size of volumes or create new ones and which tools to use.
February 8, 2011
In a recent article I detailed how to format a USB drive and in a follow-up article I explained what file systems are good for. In both articles I mentioned that there is a 32GB size limit for partitions when formatting with FAT or FAT32. Well, as some of you certainly know, that is not the entire [...]
January 25, 2011
Formatting a USB drive is no different than formatting any other drive. But how often have you actually formatted a drive and did you ever wonder what the various options mean? Most of us go with the default settings without second guessing their logic. Naturally, optimal settings depend on the type of hardware to be [...]
January 23, 2011
A few days ago, I showed you how to physically install a second hard drive into your system, and today we will be looking at the software side of that. Even if you didn’t crack open the case and add in another drive, you might still want to read on if you’d like to learn [...]
October 4, 2010
One of the main Mac user complaints has to be the inability to access and modify NTFS permissions. Installing Paragon NTFS for Mac OS X 8.0 changes that in the simplest of ways. Install the driver on your computer, and you can instantly modify and add files to any NTFS partition. This is particularly useful [...]
September 6, 2010
With its easy to follow step by step wizards, Paragon Hard Disk Manager makes it a cinch to address all of your hard drive maintenance needs – from partitioning, to back up and restore, migration, system recovery and much more. Paragon is the ideal option for advanced users, and with its easy to follow instructions [...]
August 2, 2010
Hard drives are huge nowadays, not just in popularity, but also in data storage size. Now that you can easily pick up a terabyte hard drive for a reasonable price, you have a new problem: how do you split up that space? Partitioning is a method of dividing storage space inside a hard drive and lets [...]
July 22, 2010
Every operating system has its own strengths. Windows is ubiquitous, and offers access to a wide range of software. OSX is rock-solid, and typically behaves exactly as the user expects. Linux gives you access to millions of open source programs that can’t always be found elsewhere. Many of these free applications are amazingly useful, even [...]
