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2. diskpart - Wikipedia

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   The diskpart utility is used for partitioning internal hard drives but can also format removable media such as flash drives. [4] It has long been possible, theoretically, to partition removable drives – such as flash drives or memory cards – from within Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP; e.g., during system installation.

3. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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   C: — First hard disk drive partition. D: to Z: — Other disk partitions get labeled here. Windows assigns the next free drive letter to the next drive it encounters while enumerating the disk drives on the system. Drives can be partitioned, thereby creating more drive letters. This applies to MS-DOS, as well as all Windows operating systems.

4. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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   On Unix-based and Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, macOS, BSD, and Solaris, it is possible to use multiple partitions on a disk device. Each partition can be formatted with a file system or as a swap partition. Multiple partitions allow directories such as /boot, /tmp, /usr, /var, or /home to be allocated their own filesystems. Such a ...

5. Logical Disk Manager - Wikipedia

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   Extended partition tables that are edited with Vista Disk Management should not be edited with Windows XP Disk Management. XP Disk Management may delete these extended partitions without warning. [11] One way to correct these mixed partition tables is to delete all partitions (reboot or reconnect drive) and use only one partition editor on the ...

6. System partition and boot partition - Wikipedia

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   Since Windows NT 3.1 (the first version of Windows NT), [4] Microsoft has defined the terms as follows: The system partition (or system volume) [5] is a primary partition that contains the boot loader, a piece of software responsible for booting the operating system. [6]: 1087 This partition holds the boot sector and is marked active. [7]: 970

7. fdisk - Wikipedia

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   IBM introduced the first version of fdisk (officially dubbed "Fixed Disk Setup Program") in March 1983, with the release of the IBM PC/XT computer (the first PC to store data on a hard disk) and the IBM PC DOS 2.0 operating system. fdisk version 1.0 can create one FAT12 partition, delete it, change the active partition, or display partition data. fdisk writes the master boot record, which ...

8. Live USB - Wikipedia

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   One or more partitions may need to be created on the USB flash drive; The "bootable" flag must be set on the primary partition on the USB flash drive; An MBR must be written to the primary partition of the USB flash drive; The partition must be formatted (most often in FAT32 format, but other file systems can be used too)

9. List of disk partitioning software - Wikipedia

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   Windows PartitionMagic: Symantec: Proprietary software No Windows May 5, 2004 Hard Disk Manager(Partition Manager) Paragon: Proprietary software Yes Windows March 10, 2015 Partition Master: EaseUS Proprietary software Yes Windows October 14, 2021 QtParted (GUI for GNU Parted) Vanni Brutto Free software No Linux Ranish Partition Manager: Mikhail ...