Extended vs. Primary Partitions

[blainepruitt]

What is the advantage of a hard drive with a primary partition and one extended partition (with 2 logical drives) over a hard drive with 3 primary partitions? Also, how many logical drives may be put on an extended partition??

 

[AckNack]

Some of my opinions:

Logical organization of files could be one advantage.

Keeping the C: drive partitioned off for just Windows and your applications makes it easier to image with Ghost or another imaging program.

I'm sure others will jump in with their input.

As for your second question, you're only limited by the alphabet. You can go up to drive letter Z: with a two megabyte minimum (if I remember correctly) partition size.



AckNack

http://www.computer-help-guide.com

 

[edfair]

Not sure of any changes with XP but prior you could only have one primary partition active (and usable)at a time. So even with more than one, you could only use one.
With the extended, you could have it and as many logicals active as the OS will take. You can put as many logicals as there are assignable letters left after all the primary partitions on all the drives are assigned. Last drive is Z.



Ed Fair
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