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 ...

If you’re installing a new hard drive, or need to wipe your drive clean for that “fresh” feeling, you’ll end up formatting your drive. Formatting will check the drive for errors, and prepare it for ...

Western Digital WD VelociRaptor internal hard drive. Solid-state drives are all the rage lately, thanks to their high transfer speeds and ultrafast access times, but most people still use cheap, ...

Current Setup:<BR><BR>Vista<BR>IDE 1 Master: DVD-RW<BR>IDE 1 Slave: HD1<BR>SATA 1: HD2<BR><BR>HD1 used to contain an XP install, it's currently drive and contains data files. HD2 contains the Vista ...