Product specifications

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Disk Drives on the Windows 2000 Operating System
Overview of Partitioning Basic Drives
Your operating system allows you to create multiple partitions on a
single basic drive as a way to manage projects and files.
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Once you have a basic drive you can upgrade it to a dynamic drive.
Avid supports drive partitioning in two ways:
The letters G to J are
used as examples only.
• You can partition your drive as one primary partition, represented
by a drive letter.
• You can have up to four primary partitions per drive. Each
partition is assigned a drive letter and cannot be further
subdivided.
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The Computer Management window has a text pane that describes each
partition as a “Volume laid out as a partition” (see “Checking the Disk
Configuration” on page A-5). For information regarding disk usage in the
Windows operating system, click the Help icon in the toolbar of the Computer
Management window.
One partition
Drive letter G
G
Four partitions
Drive letters G – J
GH I J