Windows Vista comes with a boatload of nifty new features, but one that continues to excite me is its enhanced ability to manipulate disks. With previous versions of Windows, we could expand volumes ...

I have seen a couple of computers where the Primary partition – C Drive, has extra storage space. Some computers do not have a partition at all, while some have a smaller partition. Since it is not ...

The Diskpart command in Vista now lets you shrink a volume by using the Shrink subcommand, see here for details. This can be useful if you have only one hard disk and a C: drive that fills the disk, ...

It can be tricky to manage disk partitions in Windows. Perhaps you want to boot two operating systems simultaneously, or maybe you don't want to reinstall Windows when partitioning a hard disk. There ...

A multiple-partition setup helps organize your data, because you can dedicate blocks of storage to a specific task. As an example, you might have programs on your C: partition and business documents ...

You won't find one. You can extend partitions with IOCTL_DISK_GROW_PARTITION (presumably for basic disks) and extend volumes with FSCTL_EXTEND_VOLUME (presumably for dynamic disk volumes), but both ...

Partitioning your hard drive divides your disk into multiple independent sections. The partitions function as separate drives, so that if one gets corrupted, no other partition's files suffer any ...

When you're dealing with unrepairable logical problems or using the wrong file system on a drive, you typically create a backup of your data, delete the old and create a new partition, and then ...