Clarification Please

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Mick

I have one physical hard drive, say 200Gig.

Formatted and partitioned to C: 100 Gig & D: 100 gig (less the 8meg or so
the system reserves)

C is a partition
D is a partition

Is the physical hard drive called a volume?

Also

If the formatted drive only contains C: 200Gig
Is C: still called a partition or is it called a volume?

Mick

Haven't googled yet.
 
Good reference article on it. In short it says a logical drive can be
considered the same thing as a volume, but one needs to read that article to
get more clarification on that. And one thing the article does note is
that partition and volume are not the same thing.
 
The term 'volume' refers to any unit of storage. A folder could be a
volume. So could a hard disk or disk partition or a network drive or a
USB drive...you get the picture.
 
A directory (folder) can be a "volume"? Are you so sure? That doesn't
sound right to me.
 
Bill in Co. said:
A directory (folder) can be a "volume"? Are you so sure? That doesn't
sound right to me.
Click to expand...

That's because he's full of crap and isn't right.
 
An NTFS mount point is precisely what I had in mind. For example, that's
what I use to mount my USB "thumb" drive so it doesn't mess up my drive
letters. I also use a mount point to mount a backup disk image, when I
want to check the image file.
 
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