Partition

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I want to know what is basically a Partition? What is it used for? How many
can you make? And can it help you prevent loss of system info or your
complete unique OS and anything that seperates the computer with others?
Thanks for those who help.
 
A singular "container" for a filesystem, and its files. A partition can use
up to all or part of a space of a given hard drive in the case of a primary
partition or an extended partition. 4 primary partitions are allowed per
hard drive.
An extended partition can contain logical drives, that is its purpose.
There is no limit per se except in the case of drive lettering limitations
for logical drives.
An extended partition counts as a primary partition in the 4 per drive
limit. This limitation is due to the master boot record.
If XP is installed both system and boot partition as C:, and your files are
on another partition, and if XP crashed without ability to repair, your
files remain safe in the other partition. If the hard drive itself fails,
all is lost.
There are nuances etc, but that's it simply speaking.
 
A common procedure is to make the first partition on your hard drive about
25GB. Name it C: and put your OS on that partition. Then make a second
partition using the rest of the space on your hard drive, name it D: and put
your “My Documents†Folder there.

When your OS becomes corrupted & crashes, you can do a clean installation of
your OS on partition C: And your “My Documents†folder will remain protected
and undisturbed on Partition D:

If the OS and “My Documents†are both on partition C: When the OS crashes,
you will loose all the data In “My Documents.â€
 
There are special tools that can help in case partititons get lost.
Partition Recovery tools is among them , the one I've used in real
need. It dad worked, and the partition was back, with its data. So, you
might wish to mind that tool in case. It is on a data set Cd image that
posses tools for data erase, recovery and backup, Boot Disk.
http://www.ntfs.com/boot-disk.htm
 
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