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2. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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   With DOS, Microsoft Windows, and OS/2, a common practice is to use one primary partition for the active file system that will contain the operating system, the page/swap file, all utilities, applications, and user data. On most Windows consumer computers, the drive letter C: is routinely assigned to this primary partition. Other partitions may ...

3. List of disk partitioning software - Wikipedia

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   Partition Commander: VCOM Products Proprietary software No 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 ...

4. Logical partition - Wikipedia

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   Changes to a running partition can be made dynamically up to the maximum value set, and down to the minimum value set in the active profile. The changing of resource allocations without restart of the logical partition is called dynamic logical partitioning. IBM PowerVM is the licensed/purchased feature that enables the virtualization features ...

5. Logical disk - Wikipedia

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   A logical disk, logical volume or virtual disk (VD [1] or vdisk [2] for short) is a virtual device that provides an area of usable storage capacity on one or more physical disk drive(s) in a computer system. The disk is described as logical or virtual because it does not actually exist as a single physical entity in its own right. The goal of ...

6. Volume (computing) - Wikipedia

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   In short, volumes exist at the logical OS level, and partitions exist at the physical, media specific level. Sometimes there is a one-to-one correspondence, but this is not guaranteed. In Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and onward, the term "volume" is used as a superset that includes "partition" as well. [1] [2] [3]

7. Logical Disk Manager - Wikipedia

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   The Logical Disk Manager (LDM) is an implementation of a logical volume manager for Microsoft Windows NT, developed by Microsoft and Veritas Software. It was introduced with the Windows 2000 operating system, and is supported in Windows XP , Windows Server 2003 , Windows Vista , Windows 7 , Windows 8 , Windows 10 and Windows 11 .

8. Partition type - Wikipedia

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   The partition type (or partition ID) in a partition's entry in the partition table inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special access methods used to access these partitions (e.g. special CHS mappings, LBA access, logical mapped geometries, special driver access, hidden partitions, secured or encrypted file ...

9. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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   Details of GPT support on 64-bit editions of Microsoft Windows [33] OS version Release date Platform Read and write support Boot support Note Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for Itanium systems, Version 2002 2001-10-25 IA-64: Yes Yes MBR takes precedence in hybrid configuration. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition, Version 2003 2003-03-28 IA-64: Yes Yes