The gurus on this list will be better at this than I, but partitions enable you to use your drive as though you had more than one computer! It's a DIVIDER utility. You tell your drive setup software to make (#) of partitions. Then you can put all of your data files on one partition, all your system files on another, utilities on another. The larger the drive, the more useful this setup is. Smaller drives (Less than 10 gigs) are not really helpful because you run out of space too fast. I have not done it yet, although I use a 30 gig drive because I like to work with iMovie and it is a spaceHog!
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