Patent ID: 8572348

Claim:
A method of establishing a hard disk physical partition, the method being applied to a computing device including a hard disk, wherein the hard disk includes an original user available partition located in a range from ‘0’ sector to an M sector which a user specifies, and a protection partition located in a range from an (M+1) sector to a sector in which a physical maximum address of the hard disk is located, the method comprising the following steps: 1) starting a computer, selecting whether to divide a new hard disk physical partition or not, and receiving information on a hard disk physical partition division in case of selecting to divide the new hard disk physical partition, wherein the information on the hard disk physical division comprises a sector in which a hard disk head portion for the new hard disk physical partition is located and a volume of the new hard disk physical partition; 2) locating the hard disk head portion to the (M+1) sector, according to the sector in which the hard disk head portion for the new hard disk physical partition in the received information on the hard disk physical partition division; and 3) setting a hard disk space with the volume beginning with the (M+1) sector, as a new user available partition independent of or separated from the original user available partition according to the received information on the hard disk physical partition division, and setting other sectors of the hard disk that include the original user available partition as a new protection partition of the hard disk, wherein the volume of the new hard disk physical partition is smaller than a physical volume of the hard disk.