A while ago I decided to get a new hard drive and multiboot. The plan is to feel out a bunch of OSes and see which performs best for me. Well, the biggest pain thus far has been installing Windows XP.

I read that it is desirable to have primary partitions on the hard disk that do not get corrupted, as extended partitions do. Could you please detail the procedure to make such a primary partition on ...

The subject says it all, and I would rather not use a boot manager. Some thing that runs off a boot disk would be fine. I have tried PDISK.EXE as part of BootIt Direct, but although it changed the ...

All these terms i.e., partition, volume, and logical drive are data storage units. But there are differences that we have tried to cover in this post below. Let’s learn about them one by one. A ...

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

The active partition is the main partition of the hard drive that has a Windows operating system and it can be set as a bootable partition. On every hard drive, you can pick only one primary partition ...

Most Windows computers contain at least one hidden partition that's invisible when you browse your computer's hard drive. Windows often creates a hidden system partition it uses during startup, and ...

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 ...

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, ...

In the world of the Windows OS, BCD stands for Boot Configuration Data. This critical information in the Windows runtime environment tells the Windows boot loader where to look for boot information.