XP: Perfect Hard Drive Partitioning

Todays massive capacity hard drives make storing data easier than ever before and unless youre into storage-intensive activities like digital video or music editing the chances are you will never run out of hard drive storage space. However, no matter how large the capacity of your hard drive you probably use it as one giant dumping ground for your data with applications, documents, media files and operating system all lumped together on the same disk. Thats fine for most users but only because they dont realise that dividing their drive up into multiple partitions can make life easier. In its most simple use, you can create a partition in which to store all your files, info and data including music and movies, photos, Word documents, spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations. There are other reasons for partitioning a hard drive, and we will tell you everything you need to know to create and manage multiple partitions on your hard drive in this article.