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Understanding partitioning

Understanding partitioning

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Understanding partitioning

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- I've just installed this beautiful NVME M.2 drive into my system, and I can bring it up into my system setup and I can see it just fine. The problem is, it may be great for my computer, but this drive is in no condition to work with my operating system. In order for it to work with my operating system, I have to take this physical electronic device and turn it into a logical electronic device that makes sense to an operating system. If you think about this for a minute, this could be an issue. Number one, electronically your system sees this particular storage device as nothing but a huge string of LBA blocks going from 0 to probably 24 million on this particular one. But when we look at our hard drives from an operating system standpoint, we see files and we see folders, and we want to be able to organize all this stuff. Using the analogy of a house, if my hard drive is a house, partitioning is building the rooms so that I can put stuff in it. So if you think about what a house…

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