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why the hard drive should be partitioned |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 02 November 2009 00:00 |
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Hardisk Partitioning (Disk Partitioning) is divided into several parts Hardisk, commonly referred to as Partition. In the windows operating system, usually starting with Drive C:, and can continue to Z:. With increasing size of Notebook, the Notebook is better at the partition into several parts.
What are the benefits we had Hardisk partition? Here's more.
Purpose (benefit) from the Hardisk partition:
* Separating the files and operating system data or documents. Although could be one, but with separated will be safer and easier settings.
* As a place for Virtual Memory operating System. Like for example on Linux
* Keeping the location of the program used data close to each other. This is in addition to accelerating execution of the program is also more efficient.
* Used to boot the operating system or run more than one, such as Windows XP, Windowx 7, Linux, Mac OS X and others.
* Protecting or separate files for easy recovery of data when the system is damaged. Because if one partition is broken, the other partitions will not be affected so that the data can still be on the save.
* Improve overall performance (performance) on the computer file system there a little more efficient system. For example the type of file system is NTFS (the default Windows XP, 2003, Vista and Windows 7), large size of Notebook will have a Master File Table (MFT) that greater access time is longer than smaller MFT.
To how the division of hard drive, can read my previous article Setting Tips division (partition) Hard disk
disk-map
Master File Table (MFT) is a location that stores various attributes of files, directories and other information about the file system is NTFS so-called Metafiles. Various attributes are known as metadata. Attributes that can be stored various kinds, such as for example: file name, file location, size and licensing files.
Some free software that can be used to partition the Hardisk of Other Easeus Partition Manager, Partition Wizard Home Edition, GParted and others. Also see your hard drive Paragon Manager 8.5
Reference
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning
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