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Figure 9-4 Partitions on an SSD

You can partition a hard drive to store more than one operating system:

store one OS in one partition and create additional partitions for another OS.

Granted, most people use only one OS, but if you want the option to boot to

either Windows or Linux, partitions are the key.

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Windows supports three different partitioning methods: the older master boot

record (MBR) partitioning scheme, Windows’ proprietary dynamic storage

partitioning scheme, and the GUID partition table (GPT). (I’ll cover all three

of these in their respective sections, following this introduction.) Microsoft

calls a hard drive that uses either the MBR partitioning scheme or the GPT

partitioning scheme a basic disk and calls a drive that uses the dynamic

storage partitioning scheme a dynamic disk.

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