Some Basics related HDD Partition.

Q. What Is Partition In The Hard Disk?
Ans. Logical Division Of Hard Disk So Can Have Different Operating System On The Same Hard Disk And Data.
 #Two Types Of Partitions In MBR (Master Boot Record) Hard Disk [Basic]

Ø Primary: A Partition Reference In The MBR Table.

Ø Extended: It Is Area In Which Can Create Logical Partition.

In Extended Partition We Create Logical Partitions.

# We Can Create 4 Maximum Primary Partition In MBR In Which We Can Create 3 Primary 1 Extended And 64 Logical Partition.

 

 

Q. What Is File System?
Ans. It Is The Method And Data Structure That An Operating System Uses To Keep Track Of Files On Hard Disk.
#  Two Types Of File System In The Hard Disk:-
1. FAT   2. NTFS

Feature	FAT16	FAT32	NTFS
Encryption	No	No	Yes
Compression	No	No	Yes
Disk Quota	No	No	Yes
Security	No	No	Yes
Size Of Partition	2 GB	32 GB	2 TB

 

# Note  -  In New Windows FAT In Not Coming, We Have Only NTFS Version. We Have NTFS3 In New Windows Like – Win Vista, Win7, Win8 And All New Server Window.

 

 

Q. How To See NTFS Version Of Your File System ?

Ans.  1. Open Command Prompt. (CMD)

2. CD\

3.Type ‘fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo c:’