What Is Hard Drive Partitioning?
Hard drive partitioning involves formatting a hard disk drive to divide it into one or more logical segments. The magnetic recording medium of a physical disk drive is deposited on a group of flat plates known as platters. Hard drive partitioning does not correspond to these physical divisions of the drive, but is instead a method by which the drive is rendered usable to operating systems by imprinting a specific magnetic structure which an operating system can understand and utilize. Hard drive partitioning can be used to create one or more virtual drives on a single hard drive. Operating systems and hard drive partitioning software are capable of performing hard drive partitioning.
