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common situations likely to require partitioning are when you install an OS

on a new system, and when you add an additional drive to an existing system.

When you install a new OS, the installation program asks you how you

would like to partition the drive. When you add a new hard drive to an

existing system, every OS has a built-in tool to help you partition it.

Each version of Windows offers a different tool for partitioning hard

drives. For more than 20 years, through the days of DOS and early Windows

(up to Windows Me), we used a command-line program called FDISK to

partition drives. Figure 9-11 shows the FDISK program. Modern versions of

Windows use a graphical partitioning program called Disk Management,

shown in Figure 9-12. You’ll find it in Computer Management in

Administrative Tools. (Windows has an advanced command-line disk

management tool as well, called diskpart, discussed in detail in Chapter 16,

“Troubleshooting Operating Systems.”)

Figure 9-11 FDISK

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