Ars Technica

Mount extended partition from USB

Hey!<BR><BR>I have an external USB hard drive. I formatted the first partition ntfs and it mounts fine. I then took the unallocated space and added an extended partition with ext3 formatting. When I ...
Ars Technica

Creating Extended Linux Partition

I have a hard drive which has a Primary partition ( WinMe ) and Extended Partition with four Logical Drives. XP being on one of them. I have about 18G freespace and was wondering if I could create ...
Computerworld

Using partitions with disk image backups

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...
PC World

3 Efficient Ways to Fix “Extend Volume Greyed Out” Error

To extend a volume, unallocated space must exist, and the unallocated space must be adjacent to the target partition. In addition, the partition style of the target volume must be in NTFS format. The ...