I hear you all here talk about a lot of "partitions" when talking about hard drives, backing up data, and reinstalling windows. What is that, exactly, and what does it do?
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Jump to PostLet's see if I can explain this right...
A partition is simply a way of dividing the space on your hard drive to be used for different purposes.
For instance, my hard drive is 160GB and I have formatted 2 partitions.
The partitions are read as different …
Jump to PostA "partition" is a logical division of a physical device. You can divide your single drive into multiple "parts" that the OS can use.
Jump to PostIsn't that what I said?
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