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Fdisk

FDISK is a tool on your computer that helps you make and manage parts of your hard drive. It's like a big LEGO set, but instead of building with blocks, you're building partitions. A partition is a piece of the hard drive that gets assigned a letter and acts like it is its own separate hard drive.

To use FDISK, you need to open up a special command line interface where you type in instructions for the computer to follow. The instructions tell FDISK which part of the hard drive you want to work with and what you want to do with it.

For example, if you want to create a new partition, you would tell FDISK to create a new "block" of space on the hard drive and give it a letter like "D." Then you can format that new space and start using it to store files or install programs.

FDISK can be a powerful tool, but it's important to use it carefully because one mistake can mess up your entire hard drive. It's always a good idea to back up your important files before messing around with partitions.
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