The D: drive is usually a secondary hard drive installed on a computer, often used to hold the restore partition or to provide additional disk storage space. You may decide to clean off the ...

You can partition a hard drive with Windows' Disk Management utility by shrinking the existing partition and formatting the new unallocated partition.

Let's take a quick look at a step-by-step guide detailing how to turn an SSD into a boot drive for your new or existing computer.

CNET editor Dong Ngo shows how you can replace your computer's hard drive with a solid-state drive and be significantly happier with your life.

A recovery USB drive is a separate, portable flash drive that your computer can use instead of your main hard drive to start up from.