Chapter 7. Main Operations with Disk
Administrator
This chapter covers the following operations with partitions:
Creating a Partition
Copying or Moving a Partition
Resizing a Partition
Formatting a Partition
Deleting a Partition
Changing the Partition Label
View Details about a Partition
Getting Detailed Information about a Hard Disk
7.1 Creating a Partition
The Create Partition function allows you to create primary or logical
partitions. Up to four primary partitions, or three primary and an unlimited
number of logical partitions can be on one hard disk.
Usually primary partitions are created to install operating systems on them,
and logical ones are used for all other purposes like software installation and
data storage. If you have several hard disks then you can increase
productivity by installing operating systems and software on different disks.
For more details about partitions see Chapter 2 «Basic Information».
You need free space on a hard disk to create a partition. If there is none,
you can create some by reducing the size of one of the existing partitions.
Desired position of free space on a disk may be obtained by moving the
partitions. Moving and resizing partitions is covered in detail below.
Creating a new partition may lead to changes in letter sequence. You should
avoid changes in letter assignment for partitions that may be referred to by
different configuration files and system registries. Hiding the newly created
partition(s) from the operating systems for which they change the letter
sequence can do this. See paragraph 2.9 «Assignment of Letters in Different
Operating Systems» for details about tracking the letter assignment for a
given operating system.
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