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PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
July 2003
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
874 pages
38h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Partitioning

The next step required to prepare a disk for use is called partitioning. Partitioning logically divides a disk into segments, each of which can be logically formatted to store data in the format, or filesystem, used by a particular operating system.

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