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Why do you need to partition a Hard Disk drive before you use it and not partition other storage devices such as CDs or DVDs?
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∙ 13y ago
On a hard disk, only one partition is required, and that is merely to enable formating of the disk for the particular OS. I believe there may also be other size/bios related reasons for having multiple partitions in the past, which may no longer be relevant today.
With CD's and DVD's, they come partially pre-formatted, and the burning software handles the format specifics at burn time depending on the mode you've chosen.
Partitioning on hard disks can also greatly reduce defrag times as well, but obviously there's no need for that with optical discs.
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What kinds of storage devices do this partition magic support?
The partition magic support the partitioning of the hard drive.
Hard drive partition?
Many drives come with a single partition already set up, but all storage devices are just treated as a mass of unallocated, free space when they contain no partitions. To actually set up a file system and save any files to the drive, the drive needs a partition. The partition can contain all of the storage space on the drive or just some of it. On many storage devices, a single partition will often take up the entire drive. Partitions are necessary because you can’t just start writing files to a blank drive. You must first create at least one container with a file system. We call this container a partition. You can have one partition that contains all the storage space on the drive or divide the space into twenty different partitions. Either way, you need at least one partition on the drive. After creating a partition, the partition is formatted with a file system — like the NTFS file system on Windows drives, FAT32 file system for removable drives, HFS+ file system on Mac computers, or the ext4 file system on Linux. Files are then written to that file system on the partition.
Explain in short InputOutput and Storage Devices with examples?
Input = Keyboard Input = scanner Output = printer Storage Devices = Hard Drive Storage Devices = Thumb Drive
What are the latest storage devices?
flash drive
Does not contain a storage device?
Some devices do not contain storage devices, or do not have enough storage space needed by a particular user. Extra storage devices such as an external hard drive can be utilized.
Are hard disks are considered Volatile or Nonvolatile storage devices?
the hard disk drive is considered a nonvolatile storage device
Names of all storage devices?
pen drive
How do you partition drive to have XP and Windows 7 on it?
When you are getting ready to install the OS, either Windows 7 or Windows XP. It has an option to Format or Partition a hard drive. If you use the partition function you can decide how much you want to take out of the hard drive storage.
Can input devices be used as output device?
storage devices like the hard drive
What is a meaning of Storage devices?
A computer's hard drive is an example of a storage device. Data can be saved (stored) on the hard drive.
2 examples of backing storage devices?
Flash Drive, external hard drive
What is Storage Hardware?
Storage hardware store the data.Like Hard disk,Pen Drive,CD/DVDs these are storage devices.
