Yes, I know, I’m crazy.

Anyway, say hello to Mr. Pizza. If you actually said hello, you’re an
idiot. Anyway, this is a pizza. At least, a weird photoshop impression
of a pizza. Back off!

This pizza represents something. It’s your hard drive. I can’t get
too detailed with this illustration (it is just a pizza folks) so work
with me here.

The toppings represent partitions. Different toppings are different
partitions. So, what do the toppings tell you about this pizza? Right.
No toppings, no partitions. This would represent your hard drive fresh
out of the box. With no partitions, your hard drive is useless! Without
partitions, your pizza is pretty sad looking also.

As you can see, the most common pizza on the face of
the planet.

The entire thing is covered with pepperonis!

Let’s pretend the pepperoni represents windows. To be accurate, the
pepperoni represents a windows partition.

So, what does this mean? Well, pepperonis are over the entire pizza!
This means, the entire pizza (hard drive) contains completely and nothing
but pepperoni (windows).

This pizza is good if you only want pepperoni, but what if you want
something other than "the most common anywhere"? Sure, you
could always cover the pizza with pineapple or something instead, but
what if you need your pepperoni, but want to have alternatives accessible
at the same time?

This requires multiple partitions. Multiple sections. In this example,
we’ll make 2 parts by splitting the pizza in half. We want half one
thing, and half another. How do we do this?

Well, we have to start from scratch*

This time, instead of sloppily throwing pepperonis all over the entire
pizza, you’ll create a section where you want the pepperoni to go. This
section (partition) will contain only your pepperoni (windows) toppings.

Why pepperoni first? Well, pepperonis are pathetically stupid, and
simply can’t comprehend what it’s like to not be the first topping
placed on the pizza. A pain? Yeah, it is. I think its a cross between
its own incompetence and its emotional status.

So, to put 2 toppings on a pizza, you put pepperoni on first – only
covering 1/2 the pizza. Leave the other half empty (free space).

*note: starting from scratch means that in order to do this, the
entire pizza (hard drive) has to be cleared, and the toppings (partitions)
are planned from the beginning. You cannot just throw away 1/2 of a
topping, you have to remove the whole thing. In other words, you can’t
resize a partition. You have to completely erase it and make a new one
(of the desired size).

Now it’s time to add our second topping!

I love oreo’s, don’t you? Good, our second topping will be oreo’s They
will represent linux.

How do I put the oreo’s on? Easy! Just drop ‘em where the free space
is.

When you’re done, you’ll have a perfect setup!

Your pepperoni is there, completely working, with all its functionality.
The only difference is instead of it covering the ENTIRE pizza, it only
covers half. (resulting in drive C’s space being cut in half)

Your oreo’s are on there! This means that you can use them to their
full potential. They’re on half the pizza (so they have the other have
of the hard drive’s space).

Why’s this so good? Oreo’s are awesome! But sometimes people just can’t
seem to shake their false need for pepperoni. Nonetheless, they can
have both. It’s a little more work, but when it’s done, it’s great!
You get the benefits from both toppings.

Who would benefit from this? You know addicted smokers who use ‘the
patch’ as a transition to go from smoking to non smoking? Well, windows
is your addictive nicotine. Linux is freedom. The 1/2 and 1/2 method
is like the patch. It lightly gives in to your cravings, but giving
you a good stepping stone to experience what it’s like free from your
addiction