Daniel wrote:
Yes, DocBill, as far as you are concerned, a Partition is 'just' a Drive
letter.
e.g., I have a 500 GB hard drive in this laptop, but I only have Windows
7 accessing about a third of that space (I have a different Operating
System, Linux, on the rest) on the Physical Hard Drive. I have...
a) my Windows 7 Operating System Partition, the C:\ drive, on about
40 Gb,
b) then my programs (MSOffice, SeaMonkey, etc.), on the 80 GB D:\
drive (or Partition), and,
c) then I have my SeaMonkey Profile and and music file on a 30 GB E:\
drive (or Partition)
A lot of Computer Users will have just the one Partition, their C:\,
which will occupy the entire space of their physical hard disk!
And that's fine, as long as the computer does what they want, who cares
how it is set up!!
In the olden days when mechanical malfunctions were more common, it was
important to know that a crash of one "drive" in a partition arrangement
was generally equivalent to a crash of all. So for example it made no
sense to back up data from one partition onto another within the same
physical drive (I'd say it still doesn't). But HDDs nowadays are so
reliable that whatever logical partition arrangement the user chooses
(if any) is generally fine for all practical purposes.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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