The OS creates the System Reserved Partition and stores data inside when Windows is installed. The data includes Boot Manager, BCD File, and the startup files used for Bitlocker Drive Encryption.

Click the Plus button to add a new partition to your disk, and then decide how large you'd like that partition to be. I find that 30 to 40GB is more than enough for the operating system and my ...

In a recent post on OS X Lion's hidden recovery partition, I demonstrated that Disk Utility can show these hidden partitions, and some people have wondered exactly how to do this.

Reinstalling OS X -- even over an existing 10.10 install -- will trigger the installer to recreate the recovery partition. A downside is that you have to wait to reinstall OS X all over again.

To limit a user to 10GB of space as a hard limit that the user cannot go above, change the "hard = 0" value in the upper line to "hard = 10000000000" (10GB defined in the decimal system that OS X ...

Double-click to launch it. GParted is a powerful partition editor that lets you shrink, expand, split, create and format partitions without disturbing the operating system already installed on a disk.

If you remember in Android 7.0, Google introduced a new feature called " Seamless Updates." This setup introduced a dual system partition scheme—a "System A" and "System B" partition.