If you need to move your Linux installation to a different hard drive or partition (and keep it working) and your distro uses grub this tech tip is what you need. To start, get a live CD and boot into ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

I have a hard drive which has a Primary partition ( WinMe ) and Extended Partition with four Logical Drives. XP being on one of them. I have about 18G freespace and was wondering if I could create ...

If you’ve ever used a drive formatted with Linux and tried to access it on a Windows system, you’re likely to have problems, especially if the drive uses the NTFS file system. Even though NTFS is ...

Partitions split one physical drive into multiple virtual drives. Each one uses an assigned piece of physical real estate on the media, and is treated by the operating system as a separate drive with ...

Disk partitioning–separating one physical hard drive into multiple independent volumes–can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches, and thanks to the Disk Management tool included with Windows ...

If you can't boot into Windows after deleting the Linux partition, and see errors like "GRUB rescue>" or "no boot device ...