First you need to reduce the size of your existing hard drive partition by whatever size you want the new partition to be: Right-click on it and choose Shrink Volume to do this.

However, if you would like to partition your drive manually, such as for creating a scratch disk or a data storage partition, you can do this using Disk Utility.

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.

How to Password Protect a Hard Disk Partition. The Windows operating system has a username and password-protection feature, but it is only for signing in to the operating system and not to protect ...

Using DiskPart to clean and format a disk partition doesn't have to be hard. Just follow these simple steps.

How to Create Vista Disk Partitions. Partitioning your hard drive divides your disk into multiple independent sections. The partitions function as separate drives, so that if one gets corrupted ...

The Read-only attribute protects data stored on Hard Disk. This article shows how to make disk or disk partition read-only in Windows 11/10.

This tutorial explains how to format or convert a Hard Disk or a Partition to NTFS format, as it is file system that provides better performance and security for data.

One drawback to having multiple users on OS X is there is no easy way to limit the amount of disk space used by that user. If a user has write access to a file system, then they can fill the drive ...