Windows 2000/XP/2003 only: Free file recovery utility Partition Drive and Mount could be a real panic-reducer for anyone realizing too late that they really needed that file or folder from a ...

If you have a specific volume on your Mac that you would like to keep from being edited when attached, here's how to protect it. When you boot OS X or attach a hard drive, the system will ...

For anyone wondering how to do this from OS X, you can mount the EFI partition using the mount command. It's a FAT partition, but isn't marked as such, so you'll need to specify a partition type, for ...

Using the UBCD I wanted to quick grab one file off a drive in RAID 1 without risk of messing anything up with the mirroring. To see if I knew what I was doing I tried first to mount a partition on a ...

This tutorial focuses on using GParted, or Gnome Partition Editor, a free and open source partition editor. To use GParted, you must first download the CD Image file (.iso file) of GParted Live for ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...