Overview of Partitioning Disks

Before you can format disks into volumes that applications can access, you must partition them. Windows Vista provides flexible partitioning that you can change even after you have formatted a volume. However, it’s still important to plan partitions ahead for features such as BitLocker Drive Encryption, which has very specific partitioning requirements.

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If Windows discovers a problem with a volume, it might schedule ChkDsk to run the next time the computer starts. Large volumes, especially volumes bigger than a terabyte, can take a very long time to check—more than an hour. During this time, the computer will be ...

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