A
floppy
disk drive
is both one
physical drive
and
one
logical drive.
A hard disk driva is one physical driw thai you can separate inio
several logical drives.
The
drawing
below illustrates this concept:
1 Logical
Drive
2 Loyitul
Drives
Physical Drive
3
S-d
gi --*!
I
Drives
4
Logical
Drives
Logical Drive
Figure
6. Physical
v
Logical
Drivus
Several lactors
may 'nfluertce the number of logical
drives
you
want.
•
>fcu
can
put similar fifes,
such as all accounting
data files,
in
one
log
cal
drive so that
you
can
operate
on
(heir
as
a
group. For
example, you can back them up, without
affecting
the
files in
other logical
drives.
•
Some
application
programs require
a
certain
number of
logical driven.
•
The
maximum
number
of
files
any logical drive can
have
ig240.
• By
putting
a gro up of files in a log ical d ri
ve, you ca n assign
Ihtr files a master passwurd that
protects
them from being
erased or copied.
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