Heidi Wordhouse-Dykema

Mary Ellen,
The partitioned hard drive is simply a way for you (or, in this case, the
previous owner) to save on disk space. Something about it 'tricks' the
computer into thinking there's more space for saving stuff, etc. At least,
that's what my husband (computer geek) told me when I inherited one of his
old partitioned hard drives. Our new one has so much room, he doesn't do
it anymore.

(think of it as folding a paper in half so you can make 4 paper-length
lists instead of only two. The paper is useable space on the hard drive
and the lists are the stuff you're storing.)

Just use it as if it really has two hard drives instead of only one. It
acts just the same. Or is yours telling you that it's partitioned, but not
that it's two hard drives?

I have no idea where online you'd get info on computer geekiness. I've
found it's best to just hang around the geeks themselves and stuff sort of
rubs off (once they stop talking about things like BUSes and RAM...)

HeidiWD