Partition Gap
E-Discovery
One physical hard disk drive can be partitioned to contain one or more logical drives when computer users utilize programs such as FDisk or Partition Magic. On large hard disk drives it is not uncommon to have multiple partitions that can be used to store data in different logical drives, like drives C or D. When multiple partitions are involved it is possible for gaps to exist between the partitions, which are referred to as partition gaps since they can be used for covert data storage. Partition gaps can