Partition Tables and the Dangers of Editing Them

If you’re a computer tinkerer (since you’re here, there’s a pretty good chance you are), you’re probably familiar with the following dreaded sight: You’ve finished one of your projects, and have just rebooted. You’re greeted with a pitch black screen with the words in tiny white letters, “Invalid partition table!” It’s dreaded because that’s as far as your machine will get while booting. Let’s take a look at exactly what a partition table is and why it’s important to take care when reconfiguring your computer’s drives. All About Hard Disk Drives To help understand partitions, it is useful to understand the media:...

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