Divided We Stand: A Guide to Partitioning Your Hard Drive Want
to make your computer faster, easier to manage, and able to
share data more securely? Dividing your hard drive into smaller
sections called partitions can make your computer more
manageable. Windows® 7 comes with an easy-to-use disk management
tool that will help you partition your drive—and you won’t have
to buy additional software. Why partition a drive? Here are a
few common reasons: - More than one person uses the computer and
you want to keep separate files—and access rights—for security
reasons. Partitioning can be particularly helpful when you share
a PC with a child. - You want to squeeze more performance out of
your PC. Partitioning a large drive into smaller units improves
performance by decreasing the amount of travelling the drive’s
read/write head has to do when it searches for data. A partition
also shrinks the size of the tables the computer uses to keep
track of where data is stored, further improving performance. -
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