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All hard drives require partitioning. Most have one big partition, and come that way from the store.
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Partitioning Table.
This question is too vague to answer fully. The number of internal hard drives is limited by the motherboard. The number of external drives is limited by USB or SATA type connection ports. Windows 7 has some limits involving what it can see over 2TB on a single drive based on partitioning methods. I am not aware of any limit of hard drives under Windows 7 specifically.
The utilities are the first one and the second one and the most important the last one !
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.
Use Disk Utility to format or partition hard drives. You should back up the drive before formatting or partitioning.
Laptops use 2.5 inch hard drives, while desktops use 3.5 inch hard drives.
There are tons of kinds of drives. Floppy Disk Drives, CD-ROM drives, PATA Hard drives, zip drives, flash drives, DVD drives, SATA hard drives.... The list could go on and on and on...
separate data files and operating system allow the computer to be dual booted
Normally, one would say 31, but the true answer depends upon the partitioning limitations of the drive.