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Windows: Multiple Drive Partition Support

Important: Western Digital technical support is does not provide assistance for drives formatted using multiple partitions. If you need assistance with a drive formatted in this manner you may wish to direct your question to the WD Community Forums for community assistance with your issue.

With current drive technology, you are unlikely to notice any increase in performance by creating multiple partitions on the drive. One real benefit of doing this is that it decreases the amount of time that ScanDisk and Defrag take to complete. Also, if you store data on a secondary partition and for some reason need to reformat the system partition, you can do so leaving your data files on the secondary partition intact.

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Answer ID 6058
Published 08/20/2018 12:52 AM
Updated 06/06/2022 07:02 AM

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