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Partitioning a new drive

Partitioning a new drive

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Partitioning a new drive

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- [Presenter] Physical storage media such as a hard drive or SSD is divided into partitions. Each partition is a logical drive which dwells on the physical drive, the media. Most external physical drives hold one partition which represents all the storage on the drive. A PC's primary mass storage devices typically divided into three partitions all logical drives. There's the Windows recovery volume, one for low-level system configuration and the drive C volume. Other discs can be partitioned in a similar manner. To perform partitioning, open the disk management console, pop up the start menu and start typing disc management until you see this item, create and format hard disk partitions. I have two external drives attached to the system. This one, disk one is already prepared by the factory. It's a single drive with a single partition. This partition is mounted into the system as drive D and the volume label is external…

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