I'm not Microsoft, nor am i affiliated with them in any way, but I imagine their reasons are similar to these.
1. Ease of install. Not everyones needs are identical, some may need larger paging files (and thus paging file partitions) others may find they are more concerned about hard disk space than performance, so theres no one-size-fits-all solution. Therefore it would be necessary to add more partitioning and page file configuration dialogues to the install process which would confuse the less savvy.
a. The people who are more savvy already have the know-how to alter their partitions and reconfigure their page-file.
b. The people who are less savvy tend not to tax their system to maximum performance, and thus less likely to appreciate the small performance boost.
c. The people who are less savvy may be upset when their hard disk size is smaller than advertised (due to the swap partition) and may not understand the reasoning behind it.
d. People who are less savvy may see the separate hard disk letter, and not understanding its purpose, fill the partition with user data & severely reduce their system performance.
2. Longevity of hardware. The paging file obviously gets a lot of reading & rewriting, nearly constantly in fact. Putting it onto a separate partition concentrates this increased activity to one area of the physical hard disk, this could lead to early hardware failure.
Most of the time the boot partition and the system partition are the same partition on the drive C.
By default C: is the active partition of the hard disk drive
in the fixed partition the partition is once allocated is fixed. in fixed partition more memory wastage because of internal & external fragmentation.... in variable partition when a process comes then according to need of process the size of memory is allocated to the process
First select a partition you would like to format. There are three ways to format a chosen partition: a. Select Format in the menu Partition.b. Click Format button in the Tool Bar.c. Select the button Format Partition underthe group Partition Operations in the Action Panel.When using this function, you need to reset the drive letter and Cluster Size of the new partition. The scope of Cluster Size is 512 Bytes, 1KB, 2KB, 4KB, 8KB, 16KB, 32KB, 64 KB. We usually recommend you use the default size. When you use the default, Partition Wizard will work out the proper Cluster Size according to the size of the partition. Attention: Formatting will destroy all the data on the chosen partition. If the system partition or start partition is formatted, the current OS will not boot properly.
Disk Management allows you to partition and format disk space from within windows Jimmy S
Because most Windows users get confused if they have more than one partition.
Microsoft OSes require a separate partition per OS.
The great and wonderful Microsoft informed me that Win 8 will not support a logical partition.
Disadvantage of timber stud partition
Fragmentation
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it has advantage in variable sized fixed partition memory location when the left space are consecutive since they are merged to make large sized
A root partition on computer terminology is the prtition where the operating system files are located. Often this is the C: partition (some operating systems allow other designations for the root but some - such as Microsoft Windows - do not).
Microsoft does not have an official tool for this, but some third-party applications are capable of this. They basically just copy files of the NTFS partition, delete it, create a new FAT32 partition, and then copy the files back.
Some people do not like having a separate /home partition for Linux, though it is better for recovery purposes. For the purposes of the question, it is assumed that you do not want a separate partition for your /home directory. The best performance is provided by placing a Linux swap partition first on the drive. This should be at least double the amount of RAM you have installed, but no larger than 1 GB. You will have to move the XP partition to the end of the drive after you have installed it. The partition after the swap partition should be a Linux partition. I personally prefer ReiserFS, but ext3 is slightly more popular, mostly due to the larger number of error recovery tools. The last partition should be the Windows XP partition.
FORMAT is a Microsoft command-line utility that is used for disk formatting. The function of the command prompt is to format a partition of the file system.
The system partition(a partition where the operating system is installed) is the active partition of the Hard Drive