Unpartition or Partitioned HD?

[Guest]

I'm building a clean install XP. What is the difference between
'unpartitioned' and 'partitioned' space? I want to install XP onto one of the
two. What's the advantage or disadvantage of either one? I'm in a corporate
environment. I'll be installing SP2 & Office2K3 SP2. Thanks for your
responses.

 

[Richard Phillips]

In a nutshell, you have to have at least one partition on your harddrive,
this is what most people have.
some people have more than one. The advantage here is if you install your
system (i.e. XP) on one partition and all your docs on another, you can wipe
the system partition in the future and reinstall XP while leaving the docs
partition intact.

Unpartitioned space is simply unused disk space. To the best of my
knowledge it's just wasted. I think you must partition it to use it.

R.

 

[Ted Zieglar]

You can't do anything on a computer with an unpartitioned hard disk.

 

[Jonny]

A partition is a container for a filesystem. XP or any OS needs a
filesystem to store files.