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Data safety in the event of winders screwing up.
If you have all your photos etc on a partition with windows installed on another, you can reinstall windows in the event of a serious error without losing your files.
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What writes sector markings to a hard drive?
partitioning
What type of hard drive does not require partitioning?
All hard drives require partitioning. Most have one big partition, and come that way from the store.
The name of the table at the beginning of a hard drive that tells where logical drives are stored on the hard drive?
Partitioning Table.
What firmware is required to use the GPT partitioning system on a hard drive?
sdr
Dose partitioning a hard drive make it work harder or faster?
Neither. Partitioning is used for the arrangement of data on the drive. Having more partitions neither makes the drive faster nor impairs its functionality.
Is partitioning same as fragmentation?
No. Partitioning is the process of creating a section of a hard drive that is read as a separate drive by the computer (For example, if you have a 100GB C drive, you can split that into a 70GB C drive and a 30GB D drive). Fragmentation is the process overtime where the files on a hard drive become disorganized and can eventually affect the performance of the computer.
What is the name of the table at the beginning of a hard drive that tells where logical drives?
Partitioning Table
What is meat by partitioning?
It means to make a single Hard Drive into many. When you buy any hard drive it is used normally as one partition. After you format it you can change the partitioning into different sizes you want. You can make a 500 gig hd into five 100gig partitions (it would show up as 5 different hd icons) or two 250 gig partitions, (it would show up as 2 hard drives) etc. The down fall of having partitions is if the hard drive died ALL the partitions die with it. The partitions are still part of ONE hard drive.
What kinds of storage devices do this partition magic support?
The partition magic support the partitioning of the hard drive.
How many volumes can a hardrive have?
A hard drive can have multiple volumes. The number of volumes that can be created on a hard drive depends on the operating system and the partitioning scheme being used. Typically, a hard drive can have several partitions or volumes.
How do you remove a partition on a hard drive running Windows 2000 without reformatting the hard disk?
There are several partitioning products available that are easy and intuitive to use.
How to partition the hard drive of Mac Pro with mountain lion os x?
Use Disk Utility to format or partition hard drives. You should back up the drive before formatting or partitioning.
