An Unallocated disk or drive is one that hasn’t been assigned any drive letter. To install an operating system on brand new hard drives, you will be required first to partition it because you can’t ...

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In pre-xp pc's I have always (given a separate partition and sufficient space) copied the whole OS cd to hard disc, <BR>a) to reduce use/potential loss/damge <BR>b) much faster installs <BR>c) ...

Simply put, making an ISO image of a hard drive is to create a 1-to-1 backup copy that consists of a .iso file. Nowadays, as computing technology develops, users have many ways to image a hard drive ...

Many computers these days come with two hard drives, one SSD for fast boot speeds, and one that can be used for storage. My Dell G5 gaming laptop is a great example with a 128GB NAND SSD and a 1TB SSD ...