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How to back up and restore Boot Camp partitions

May 9, 2013 6:00am PDT

Backing up and restoring the Windows environment stored within Boot Camp partitions can be tricky. Jesus Vigo recommends this method using WinClone.

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Tips for configuring Boot Camp partitions for business users

March 27, 2013 12:38pm PDT

Erik Eckel makes recommendations for sizing Boot Camp partitions for Windows on Mac OSX, using second internal disks, and partition management.

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Create a Recovery Drive in Windows 8

February 13, 2013 12:15pm PST

Greg Shultz shows you how to create a Recovery Drive in Windows 8 for both a flash drive and an optical disk.

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Five Apps for working with disk partitions

January 25, 2013 1:33pm PST

Matthew Nawrocki shares five freeware partition editors that should serve as effective replacements for the tools that come with Windows.

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The complete guide to a Windows 8 clean installation

November 8, 2012 1:57pm PST

Greg Shultz documents the entire Windows 8 clean install procedure so we have a roadmap to follow and know what to expect.

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I'll take my Windows 8 To Go, please

October 17, 2012 12:17pm PDT

Derek Schauland shows you the steps to follow to create and configure Windows To Go media, a portable, fully functional Windows 8 environment.

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Remove Windows 8 from a dual-boot configuration

September 6, 2012 10:24am PDT

Greg Shultz shows you how to remove Windows 8 from a dual-boot configuration.

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Dual-boot Windows 7 and Windows 8

August 23, 2012 11:09am PDT

Greg Shultz shows you how to prepare and configure your Windows 7 system to dual-boot Windows 8.

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Extending partitions on Linux VMware virtual machines

July 2, 2012 5:21am PDT

Lauren Malhoit explains how she extended her Linux partitions.

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Create and enable new swap space on a Linux server

June 7, 2012 1:00pm PDT

Jack Wallen instructs you on how to get a new, larger swap partition created for your Linux server or desktop.

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How to switch boot partitions through a VPN tunnel

May 22, 2012 12:16pm PDT

Daryl Lucas explains how he rebooted his office PC into a different OS while tunneled into it through a VPN tunnel.

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How to resize a live partition in Snow Leopard and Lion

January 19, 2012 12:05pm PST

Wil Limoges takes you through the steps that will allow you to create and resize live partitions in Mac Snow Leopard and Lion.

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Quick Tip: Shrink a hard drive volume in Windows 7

November 23, 2011 12:25am PST

Use the Disk Management Tool in Microsoft Windows 7 to shrink a hard drive volume to create room so that you can add a new partition.

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VMware Converter 5 technology preview brings new features to conversions

October 3, 2011 10:27am PDT

Still a critical tool in today's virtualization toolkit, the P2V tool continues to get new features. Virtualization pro Rick Vanover highlights features of the upcoming VMware Converter 5.

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Extend boot volumes with Partition Assistant 3.0

September 13, 2011 12:25pm PDT

Scott Lowe describes how his IT team used the Aomei Partition Assistant 3.0 utility to extend a system volume. See why he calls the utility fantastic.

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DIY: A magical Live partition/rescue tool

August 5, 2011 6:37pm PDT

There's a lot to love about Parted Magic. It's open source, free, easy to use, and has a number of tools for helping you recover, test, and repair a system.

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Configure a USB flash drive to be a Windows 7 installation platform

July 27, 2011 12:25am PDT

Greg Shultz shows you how to use the DiskPart utility to configure a bootable USB flash drive that you can then use to install the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system.

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Redundancy and flexibility with RAID1+LVM

April 12, 2011 5:30am PDT

Vincent Danen tells you how to get reliable and flexible storage options when you combine RAID with LVM, which allows you to resize partitions inside a physical volume easily.

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Quick Tip: Create a new partition with Windows 7 tool

January 13, 2011 11:23am PST

Use the Disk Management Tool in Microsoft Windows 7 to add a partition to a hard disk volume so you can create a new logical drive.

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Do you have time to fix your own PC?

October 6, 2010 1:06pm PDT

In this guest post, TR member CTOS explains how she is so busy solving other people's computer problems that she doesn't have time to fix her own PCs. Is this a common dilemma for IT pros?