️ Partitions allow a single physical disk drive to be treated as if it were multiple disks. That’s a disk partition.

A single physical disk can have multiple partitions. That’s why partitions exist: to allow a single physical disk to be treated as if it were multiple disks. These separate disks are often used to contain important system resources. Individual partitions are one approach to organizing a separation between system and data, which can facilitate certain types of backup and recovery strategies.

Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/131019

Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub

Watch next ▶ – What Backup Type Do I Want: Full, Incremental, or Differential?: – https://youtu.be/N1FJS-JEL9I

Chapters:
0:00​ What Is a Partition
1:01 Volumes and Partitions
2:30 View my machine
4:26 Logical drives
5:41 Dividing partitions
8:40 Backing up partitions

️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best
️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1

More Ask Leo!
️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered
️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter.
️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo!
️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo/ for even more!

#askleo #partition #backup

Please take the opportunity to connect and share this video with your friends and family if you find it useful.