so back in the time of the dinosaurs it was pretty much a necessity to partition
or divide up your drives especially if
you were running a higher capacity drive on an old operating system such as
Windows 95 and believe me having to deal
with like 12 partitions because of file system limitations was kind of a drag
nowadays though with everyone on a Windows-based PC anyway using NTFS
partitioning is no longer necessary but
it can be a valuable tool so what
exactly then is partitioning and why is
it still relevant when we can just dump everything onto one giant 8 tbte drive
and be done with it well partitioning
means splitting one physical hard drive or SSD into several different logical
drives or volumes that your operating
system will treat as if they were completely separate phys phical drives
each volume on a partitioned disc has its own Drive letter you know like C or
D or Z and folder structure and can also
be formatted even with different file systems without affecting your other
partitions at all so if you're just rocking one drive in your system
partitioning allows you some pretty cool functionality you could set up a hidden
partition with no Drive letter assigned so non- techsavvy roommates won't be
able ble to find a particular Virtual Drive many PC manufacturers include
recovery partitions that are hidden away and have all of your operating system
and drivers and pre-installed applications they're ready for you to
say hey I'm ready to restore my PC or if
you wanted to dual boot your system very useful if you wanted to try out Linux or
run a previous version of Windows for improved compatibility without
installing a whole new physical disc or or getting rid of your more modern
operating system multiple partitions can also help keep your data safe if
something happens to your OS installation one popular way to do this
is to put your personal files and data on a separate partition so if your OS
gets corrupted or infected with certain types of malware you can just wipe it
and do a clean reinstall without also nuking your important stuff though it
should be noted this does nothing to protect that data from a physical drive
failure partition can also help though
with a slow mechanical drive through a technique called short stroking you see
because of the way that hard drive platters spin the read or right head in
your hard drive actually accesses data near the outer portion of the disc more
quickly short stroking involves creating a partition that only takes up the
faster outer portion of the platter not a bad place to install programs that you
need to access quickly if you don't have room or you can't afford an SSD upgrade
so how do you create a partition then well there's a wide variety of ways you
can actually specify multiple partition sizes when you're installing operating
systems such as Windows from within Windows you can use Disk Management to
actually shrink and expand volumes which
allows you to partition the space that is no longer being taken up by a volume
you can buy dedicated tools such as Paragon hard disk manager that's the one
that we use around here at the office whenever we have to work with partitions
or I'm sure that the comments are going to be full of everyone's favorite
open-source partition management software and you can check out the most
upvoted ones there as well but there are
downsides to partitioning for one because of file system overhead
splitting your disc into multiple partitions results in lower overall
capacity than if you just had one big partition you also have to configure
Windows to store your data intelligently on a second partition unless you want to
just be manually moving things around
and the same goes for programs because installing programs in one volume and
then trying to move them over to another one is pretty much not a thing meaning
that even if the idea was to save yourself from OS corruption if you're
installing a bunch of programs to that other Drive you're actually going to have to go clean them out manually and
reinstall them anyway but if you're the type of person that appreciates fine
tuning and tinkering and you you know want your data backups there and you
want to put your manage files there then don't be afraid of partitions I mean
after all where would we be without partitions in public bathrooms I don't
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