What is partition?

[MegaCharger]

Don't know if I spelled it correctly, but what is partition? I have a vage idea of what it is but I don't know exactly what does it do!

 

[icy_oblivion]

When you partition your hard drive you end up creating two or more virtual hard drives. What it does is takes you HD and puts in 'markers' of some kind that tell programs that there are actually two hard drives.

A lot of people, including myself, partition their hard drive and have one partition for data and one for the OS and program files. By doing this, if you end up reinstalling windows you don't loose all your data if you reformat.

Multiple partitions also allows you to load more than one operating system off of the same physical drive.

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[Teq]

Hard disk partitions are logical divisions on the platter surface of a drive. They provide a means of creating more than one isolated storage volumes on one physical hard drive. You can install and alter partitions in almost any combination through software such as FDISK or the Disk Manager in Nt systems.

Lots more information here:
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edit: Found a better link.


--->It ain't better if it don't work<--- <P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Teq on 04/20/03 11:45 PM.</EM></FONT></P>