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To: Dave Bissett who wrote (1464)	6/21/1998 11:47:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

>> why is it valuable to have different partitions on your drive? << Beauty is in the eye of the beholder:) I have never been big on partitions. I have only used them out of necessity. They are generally used to organize a harddisc or to make it compatible with multiple operating systems or to assist in a backup strategy. For example I have a machine with a 9 GB drive which is setup for dual boot Win95/NT. The only file system that is common to Win95 and NT is FAT. FAT does not support drives larger than 2.1 GB. The drive is partitioned into four 2 GB partitions because of the FAT thing. Some backup utilities (Partition Magic ) will back up one drive to another drive. It will not copy a partition onto itself. If you have only one harddrive you can partition it and then backup from one partition to the other. In the FAT file system you get more efficient use of space with smaller drive sizes. There is another barrier at 8.x GB. One work around is to partition a large drive to 8 GB or less. Partitions can be hidden. One could install an Operating System on one partion and another OS on a second partition. Then hide the first and you will boot from the second. Zeuspaul

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