About Disk Partition

Let’s presume you are setting up a new system and starting with an empty 300 GB hard disk. Of course, you may create a single 300 GB partition - a primary Windows one. However, in many cases dividing up such a disk will make it easier to manage the space. So we imagine you want to split up this drive as follows:

You will first set up a primary Windows partition - 40 GB. Then you will create an extended partition that is 260 GB in size. This is the second partition on the hard disk. Within the extended partition you will create three logical volumes: 60 GB, 80 GB and 120 GB. These are your second, third and fourth volumes respectively. The first partition will be your C: drive from which you boot the machine, and Windows will assign D:, E: and F: to the other logical partitions. The D: drive can be used for storing docs, the E: one for games, and the F: one for large multimedia files, backups and “future expansion”. Thus, your hard disk will have one primary partition, and one extended partition containing three logical volumes.

So, to sum it up, if you want to use the space of your hard drive in the right way, it must be partitioned. That process also known as partitioning.