Someone explain partitioning

[Gautama2]

What is partitioning, what are its benefits, am i dumbass for not partitioning, and what is a slave drive?

 

[Howard]

You "partition" a physical drive into two or more logical drives. If you split a 250GB drive into a 200GB partition and a 50GB partition, Windows treats it like 2 drives with those capacities, but it's still one physical drive.

You're not necessarily a dumbass for not doing it, but it makes formatting (among other things, probably) much easier since you don't have to back up most of your data.

A slave drive is a drive on an IDE cable acting as the slave (the other drive on the cable would be the master). Don't really know what the difference is, though.

http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_01.htm

 

[Gautama2]

So what are the benefits of having 2 drives opposed to 1

 

[Gautama2]

Nvm, read that article