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It's created when a hard drive is partitioned, but it's not located within a partition. This means non-partitioned storage mediums, like floppy disks, don't contain a master boot record. The MBR ...

While doing some disk swapping yesterday, I kinda screwed things up. I had used Clonezilla to clone my 500GB SSD to a 1TB SSD and that went off without a ...

If you dual-boot Linux and Windows, you expect to move between the two without much fuss. But I’ve had moments when I booted into Linux and suddenly couldn’t see my Windows partitions.

The UEFI boot process and disk layout. In order to boot a UEFI firmware system, there has to be an EFI boot partition on the disk. This is a relatively small (100MB or so is enough) FAT partition ...

Easy though it may be, it’s always a good idea to have a backup of your Boot Camp partition before doing something like this. And for that backup the best tool around is Twocanoes’ $20 WinClone 3.

In the case of a Boot Camp partition this isn’t possible with Time Machine. Apple’s backup technology doesn’t support backing up and restoring these partitions.

Re-sizing partition after Windows XP installation Several users have inquired about modifying the size of their Windows partition after setting up Boot Camp and installing Windows XP. So far ...

The boot drive's format and partition structure can be checked both in the OS X graphical interface and in the Terminal. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...