What Exactly Does It Mean to Partition a Hard Drive

Thinking about having 2 operating systems on my Mac because I hate OSX. Saw a few videos on how to add an operating system but got confused when he changed the number of gigs for each. I'm just confused about the whole idea.

What does partition hard drive mean? The definition given by Wikipedia is to create one or more regions in a secondary disk area so that each region can be managed separately. These regions are called partitions. If the partition style of your hard drive is MBR, you can create four primary and multiple logical partitions. If it is a GPT drive, you can have up to 128 primary partitions.

Why Should We Partition Hard Drive?

Many users want to have multiple Operating Systems on one drive, which can only be configured to boot one operating system on one drive, so they must partition the hard drive to form multiple volumes for each OS to be installed. Here are several other reasons why to partition:

• Initialize new bought hard drive by splitting it up.
• Manage data logically and cleanly.
• Improve data security: separate OS partition from other data.

How to Partition Hard Drive

In this part, let me introduce the most effective way of partitioning a new hard drive. As a free partition manager software, EaseUS Partition Master Free enables beginners to manage their partitions flexibly, including creating partitions on the hard drive without formatting.

Download the free partition tool and apply it based on your need as follows: