Partitions: you need this to specify the size of the
usable space on your hard drive you can set up a portioning using the
windows start-up disk or you windows cd. I don't recommend using a
western digital start disk because of future problems with windows
Fdisk: is a program that is on the windows start-up
disk that is made to make a partition and delete a partition on the hard
drive
Format: creates the information to prepare your hard
drive to be written to and it also is an ease way to erase things quickly
FAT 32: this is the format that is used for large
drives that are running windows 95, 98 and ME
NTFS: (new technologies filing system) this is the
filing system used for windows NT 4, 2000 and XP it's more secure for
network and multiple user computers
ISP: your ISP (Internet Service Provider) is the
company or person that is your gateway to the inter net
SMTP: this is an e-mail account setting that is the
outgoing server for you email
POP3: is the e-mail account setting that is the
storage space for you e-mail
