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Most computers now have partitions on the hard drives. A partition is like a room. You might have two partitions on your hard drive, say C Drive and D Drive. C Drive is the portion of your hard drive that has all your stuff– the operating system, your files and folders, etc. D Drive is the portion of your hard drive that has, say, your operating system’s recovery information. Fewer and fewer computer manufacturers are including the operating system on disk anymore– they now install the operating system on the computer’s hard drive (on a partition) where you have to copy that information on a number of backup DVDs. I dislike it very much. I like having a factory disk of the operating system, I hate making the recovery backup disks, and I hate having all that wasted, unused space on my hard drive.

Here’s a cool (and FREE) program that helps manage your partitions: Easeus Partition Manager. Don’t ask me how to pronounce it, though! I have not used this yet, but I intend to. My hesitation right now is that there doesn’t appear to be a free program for 64-bit Vista, which is what I have. So I’m waiting until I have made data backups (and am feeling adventurous) to see if Easeus will work on my computer.

Easeus has gotten rave reviews. It enables you to create, delete, manage, resize, amd reformat partitions on your hard drive. I am in need of making more space for my C Drive and shrinking the monster that is my D Drive. It looks very user-friendly. But as always, do backup your important data before messing with your files.