separate data files and operating system
allow the computer to be dual booted
Yes
yeah, you may have your whole hard disk as one partition. That won't be very smart though.
There are different various places where one can purchase disk partitioning software. There are disk partitioning software available on Amazon such as Partition Commander 10. Some other places that one can buy disk partitioning software are Ease US and Partition Wizard.
Some common utilities for partitioning hard drives include Disk Management (Windows), Disk Utility (Mac), and GParted (Linux). These utilities allow you to create, resize, delete, and format partitions on your hard drive.
Okay, if the machine lost power during the partitioning process, you will have to start over with the partitioning as all the data on the hard disk will be scrambled. The process of partitioning modifies the data structure on the hard disk in very fundamental ways, interrupting this process halfway through will leave the hard disk with corrupted or missing partitions. Most likely all partitions will need to be removed and redone. Removing corrupted partitions may require a low-level format.
There are several partitioning products available that are easy and intuitive to use.
disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk into multiple logical storage units referred to mas part ions to treat one disk as if it were multiple disks. disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage disk for initial use.
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This is called "partitioning".
Use Disk Utility to format or partition hard drives. You should back up the drive before formatting or partitioning.
The reason is that the technology of the days the floppy disk was not as advanced as of today.
All hard drives require partitioning. Most have one big partition, and come that way from the store.