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so back in the time of the dinosaurs it was pretty much a necessity to partition

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or divide up your drives especially if

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you were running a higher capacity drive on an old operating system such as

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Windows 95 and believe me having to deal

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with like 12 partitions because of file system limitations was kind of a drag

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nowadays though with everyone on a Windows-based PC anyway using NTFS

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partitioning is no longer necessary but

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it can be a valuable tool so what

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exactly then is partitioning and why is

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it still relevant when we can just dump everything onto one giant 8 tbte drive

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and be done with it well partitioning

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means splitting one physical hard drive or SSD into several different logical

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drives or volumes that your operating

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system will treat as if they were completely separate phys phical drives

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each volume on a partitioned disc has its own Drive letter you know like C or

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D or Z and folder structure and can also

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be formatted even with different file systems without affecting your other

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partitions at all so if you're just rocking one drive in your system

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partitioning allows you some pretty cool functionality you could set up a hidden

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partition with no Drive letter assigned so non- techsavvy roommates won't be

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able ble to find a particular Virtual Drive many PC manufacturers include

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recovery partitions that are hidden away and have all of your operating system

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and drivers and pre-installed applications they're ready for you to

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say hey I'm ready to restore my PC or if

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you wanted to dual boot your system very useful if you wanted to try out Linux or

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run a previous version of Windows for improved compatibility without

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installing a whole new physical disc or or getting rid of your more modern

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operating system multiple partitions can also help keep your data safe if

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something happens to your OS installation one popular way to do this

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is to put your personal files and data on a separate partition so if your OS

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gets corrupted or infected with certain types of malware you can just wipe it

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and do a clean reinstall without also nuking your important stuff though it

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should be noted this does nothing to protect that data from a physical drive

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failure partition can also help though

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with a slow mechanical drive through a technique called short stroking you see

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because of the way that hard drive platters spin the read or right head in

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your hard drive actually accesses data near the outer portion of the disc more

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quickly short stroking involves creating a partition that only takes up the

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faster outer portion of the platter not a bad place to install programs that you

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need to access quickly if you don't have room or you can't afford an SSD upgrade

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so how do you create a partition then well there's a wide variety of ways you

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can actually specify multiple partition sizes when you're installing operating

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systems such as Windows from within Windows you can use Disk Management to

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actually shrink and expand volumes which

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allows you to partition the space that is no longer being taken up by a volume

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you can buy dedicated tools such as Paragon hard disk manager that's the one

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that we use around here at the office whenever we have to work with partitions

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or I'm sure that the comments are going to be full of everyone's favorite

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open-source partition management software and you can check out the most

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upvoted ones there as well but there are

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downsides to partitioning for one because of file system overhead

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splitting your disc into multiple partitions results in lower overall

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capacity than if you just had one big partition you also have to configure

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Windows to store your data intelligently on a second partition unless you want to

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just be manually moving things around

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and the same goes for programs because installing programs in one volume and

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then trying to move them over to another one is pretty much not a thing meaning

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that even if the idea was to save yourself from OS corruption if you're

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installing a bunch of programs to that other Drive you're actually going to have to go clean them out manually and

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reinstall them anyway but if you're the type of person that appreciates fine

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tuning and tinkering and you you know want your data backups there and you

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want to put your manage files there then don't be afraid of partitions I mean

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