What Does It Mean to Unpartition a Hard Drive?
The first hard disk drive was the IBM Model 350 Disk File, first announced in 1956. That hard drive was in a cabinet the size of a cupboard and held a “massive” 5MB of information. For comparison, a single photo from a modern digital camera uses more than 5MB of storage. A typical computer today holds a terabyte or more of data, a whopping 200,000 times as much space. It wouldn’t have made much sense to partition those original drives but with the size of modern storage, many PCs come with more than one partition. But what if you want…
