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With the rapid development of economy and technology, now computers become as our companions. With them, we come into contact with more and more vocabularies but not easy to comprehend some basic concepts. In fact, your can ease to understand some basic computer HD knowledge on this article as some computer freshman bothered by the same questions. So have a look at this article mainly focuses on disk partitioning and the related vocabularies, it sure helps you.

Partition is known as the operations of segmentation the storage space of hard drive into separate data areas, including create, delete, move, format and resize partition or modify these partitions. You can get these help in the latest operating systems, Win7 and Vista. If not you can turn to the mature partition manager software, like Partition Assistant to do this job.

How many partitions exist in the hard disk, you may have this question. In fact, the total data storage space of hard disk can be divided into four at most & one primary partition minimum. Each one of these partitions likely be an extended partition.

All these primary partitions are described on 16-byte entries that form the Partition Table stay at the master boot record. A master boot record (MBR), or partition sector, is the 512-byte boot sector that is the first sector ( the LBA value is 0) of a HD partitioned data storage device. The MBR do nor spread over a partition but the Main Boot Record area in front of the first partition, generally users is prevent to this area because this area belongs to firmware. Only when get the help of professional tools, you can access and edit it. We shall discuss this part in the articles.

Well, you come to understand what is a primary partition and extended partitions. A primary partition being one file system; and the primary partition must in the foremost place of MS-DOS and earlier versions of Microsoft Windows systems.

An extended partition is a new partition constitute with a lengthening partition from the primitive partition and the original partition. A hard disk may only contain one extended partition which can late be sub-divided into logical drives all assigned additional drive letters.

Take an example in DOS & Windows, the drive letters: C: typically assigns for the primary partition and one extended partition; D: and E: for the two latter logical drives.

To make a conclusion, you should understand of disk partitioning, MBR, primary partition and extended partition. Thanks your attention this article and hope it helpful to you.

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