In computer systems, the term "partition" refers to a segmentation or separation of the data storage space on a disk. The most common usage for a hard disk is simply one partition accounting for 100% of the storage space. In a windows system, this would be your drive C:
If, for some reason it was desired to split that drive into two, you could instead make two partitions and split the space 50/50 or 60/40 90/10 whatever, and have drive C: for one and D: for the other. Indeed you can separate the hard disk into dozens of partitions and have drive letters all the way to Z: but this tends to get a bit cumbersome.
Many operating systems prefer to put system files and user files into separate partitions for various reasons, and might also have a 3rd partition for swap files. This is done to boost system performance and stability.
In cases where there are multiple operating systems running on a single computer system, it is common to have each installed on their own partition of the hard disk.
Creating one or more regions on secondary storage to be managed each region separately is called Disk partitioning or disk slicing.
The system partition(a partition where the operating system is installed) is the active partition of the Hard Drive
Must be at least a 2 GB partition. System partition.
The boot partition
system partition
System partition
You just partition the Hard drive not the RAM.
system partition
If a partition is formatted, or deleted, then the information saved on that partition is also deleted. So, if there is any information on the partition you wish saved, backup that information or copy it to another partition or another location before deleting the partition.
The active partition is the partition which is marked as Active in Index table. the status and locations of partitions are stored in MBR(master boot record). The active status tells the system which partition to boot from. System boots from the partition which contains the Operating System(windows XP, 2003.....). So the partition which contains the Operating System is Active partition and it is the Primary partition. So we can call the active partition as Bootable Partition or Primary Partition.
Most of the time the boot partition and the system partition are the same partition on the drive C.
The system partition is the active partition of the hard drive and it contains the OS boot record. The boot partition is the partition where the Windows operating system is stored.
Most of the time the boot partition and the system partition are the same partition on the drive C.