Hard disk is a storage area in your computer, this is an internal storage device which has multiple partitions. On Microsoft Windows systems, the hard disk is split into multiple partitions to keep the files of user organized.

Usually, a user tends to store operating system and other applications in one partition and the other data into another partition of hard disk, it always proves to be useful in the long run. Accidents may occur anytime and if anything goes wrong with your computer, you can format the partition containing O.S. without disturbing other partitions.

More the number of partitions, smaller will be the cluster size which makes data storage effective. If the cluster size is big then a file may occupy more space than actually required. If you already have installed O.S. in one partition and rest of the hard disk is bigger in size than O.S. Partition then it would be better if you go for more partitions.

How do I create hard disk partition?
Usually, partition is created by using ‘fdisk’ command. There are few operating systems which use graphical interface and tools to accomplish this job.

File systems are the actual warehouse. Hard disks have file systems and data get stored into these file systems. FAT, FAT32 and NTFS are few of such file systems.

How are logical partitions related to primary partitions?

Few years ago, it was a notion that there can be only four partitions which are also called primary partitions. But then, it was discovered that there can be 3 primary partitions and one secondary partition. The 4th partition can be divided into multiple logical drives and are called logical partition. Logical partition is the one which contains the information about primary partitions. It is also possible that you have more than one Operating System in your primary partitions.

By reading this article, we hope, you get a clear idea about the hard disk sitting in your PC.

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