In all computer accessories, the hard disk is more specific, it is not only related to the system’s overall performance, all the use’s information stored in its body. So, how to format the hard drive partition? how to solve hard drive failure when experienced it?
The hard disk partition refers to dividing the physical storage space to logical space, divide a large-capacity hard disk into multiple logical range of sizes. The number of partition and capacity of each partition is set by the user according to its own needs.
1.primary partitions, extended partitions, logical partitions.
 The primary partition contains the operating system boot files and data which is necessary to boot, in order to install the operating system on the hard disk, the hard drive must have a primary partition. Extended partition aside from the main partition, but it can not directly use, you must divide it into several logical partitions before use it . Logical partition is what we usually see in the operating system of the D, E, F … … and so on.
 2. Format hard drive partition
Windows partition format mainly are FAT16, FAT32, NTFS and so on, in which almost all operating systems support FAT16. However, the actual utilization of the hard disk using FAT16 partition is low, and the maximum capacity of a single partition is only 2GB, so this partition format is rarely used.
FAT32 uses 32-bit file allocation table, disk management capability has been greatly enhanced, and thus breaking the FAT16 partition size of each one only a 2GB limit. It is currently the most used, and supported by Windows 98/2000/XP/2003 systems. Under normal circumstances, the user can set the partitions to FAT32 when partition the hard disk drive.
NTFS has the extremely advantage of security and stability. Nevertheless, except for Windows 2000/XP/2003 systems, other operating systems can not recognize it.
When choose the partition format, users need to accord the operating system to choose, FAT32 can be used under normal circumstances.
Selected the type of the file on hard drive, you can use FORMAT command to format hard drive and floppy, the hard disk can be used.
