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Simply put a partition acts like a physical drive.
With a 120 gig HD you could make 4 equal 30 gig partitions, each partition would be viewed just like a HD with drive letter etc,
As an example ...
C Drive = Win XP (System Drive, Boot Drive)
D Drive = Applications (Office etc.)
E Drive = Storage (documents, MP3s etc.)
F Drive = Games
If you have a major problem that requires a format of your C Drive only files on that partition will be lost.
If you keep the drive as one large partition the same problem will lose ALL your data.
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Last edited by LooseChippings : 05-31-2003 at 04:32 PM.
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