What is hard drive patitioning?

[PointlesS]

(cutted and pasted from another forum)
I have some sort of an idea of what is is.....isn't it like...it splits up your hard drive into multiple drives...like 1 gb..2gb (you can set it right?) so that windows is easier access to the files...thereby making access times faster and getting a performance increase? is it neccessary to do this? how big of a performance increase will I get from it? how do I do it? lots of questions I know...but...I want to know this stuff before I build my rig...

 

[IamDavid]

Your right about what it is. But it doesn't increase your performance. The main reson for doing it is to make it easier to defrag. Also people who MultiBoot make partitions.

Here is a great expaniation. Its from the Anandtech FAQ.

 

[PointlesS]

cool...thanks...I didn't expect such a quick reply...

 

[nsxdemon]

I've found the best way to partition a drive is with a circular saw...sometimes you get poor partitions with a low tooth-count. The best utility to use is a carbide-tipped high tooth-count blade with a powerful circular saw...you get great cuts with it!

 

[Helznicht]

Here is a good step by step instruction using FDISK

 

[IamDavid]

LOL @ nsxdemon.