✳️ Partitions allow a single physical disk drive to be treated as if it were multiple disks. That's a disk partition.

A single physical disk can have multiple partitions. That’s why partitions exist: to allow a single physical disk to be treated as if it were multiple disks. These separate disks are often used to contain important system resources. Individual partitions are one approach to organizing a separation between system and data, which can facilitate certain types of backup and recovery strategies.

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Chapters:
0:00​ What Is a Partition
1:01 Volumes and Partitions
2:30 View my machine
4:26 Logical drives
5:41 Dividing partitions
8:40 Backing up partitions

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