I'm on Ubuntu Lucid. It looks like the partition table on my trusted backup drive has gotten damaged or corrupted (may have been improperly removed before unmounting, maybe). Because this is my backup ...

Apple's Disk Utility has always checked the health of volume structures, but in Lion it will verify the structure of the partition tables as well. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac ...

The format used to define the hard disk partitions in computers with UEFI startup firmware. The GUID Partition Table (GPT) replaces the previous master boot record (MBR). GPT partitions can hold 18 ...

I'm looking for a tool that will let me save the master partition table of each physical drive, as well as the logical parition table of every extended parition. What tool would you recommend for that ...

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

My previous post on Linux Mint Debian Edition 201303 has obviously uncovered a lot of confusion about EFI booting and GPT partition tables. I hope that I can explain it all a bit more, with a couple ...

Command-line enthusiasts know that if you can do something in the regular Mac interface, you can usually do it faster using Terminal. But as of Mac OS X 10.4.6, Terminal also lets you perform a feat ...

Continuing the discussion on VLDBs and SQL Server we need to look at the daily load of millions of rows. As stated before, doing this to an existing table with indexes will force the system to do a ...

While using a Windows PC over a MacOS system (or vice versa) was once fairly limited in terms of crossover, such towering walls no longer exist. Still though, if you’ve ever wanted to use the same ...