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When you format a hard drive you can set it up to have different zones you could say ( I forget the actuall word ). What it means is that you can split up your hard drive into different parts basically, that is the definition of PARTITION. I've never done this but basically it means that you could use your single hard drive as two. It would read your programs from one part, and then record your audio to the other part.
If I'm wrong in any way feel free to correct me but this was my basic understanding of it.
no correction needed u seem 2 b on point. lets say a person has a 60 gig 7200 rpm drive. when you do a disk defragment and scan disk its going to scan that ENTIRE 60 gb drive.
if you break the 60 gig drive down (using fat 32) you can break it into 3 20 gig drives or 6 ten gig drives.
when your playing back your files it isnt searching the ENTIRE 60 gig. only the section where you put the music. when its time to defragment you will defrag THAT section.
on my pc i have a,c,d,e,f,g,h,i and j drives
a is the floppy
c and e is a 5400 rpm drive thats partioned into 2 segments.
e,f,g and h is a 7200 rpm drive partioned into four segments.
i and j are cd rom and burner.
try defragmenting a LARGE drive after *SERIOUS* sessions,tweeks etc etc etc. its going to take 4ever and a day.
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