primary partition vs extended partition

[alexerm]

Hi,

I would like to divide my new 80GB harddrive into 3 parts (C,D,E)

What would be more efficient:
1) To have 3 primary partitions
or
2) To have 1 primary partition + extended partition with 2 logical drives?

I'm planning to use only one operating system (Win2k pro) and I don't care about older windows versions compatability issues with multiple primary partitions.

I would like to know which solution would be more efficient in terms of speed.

Thanks

 

[wolluf]

afaik there is no speed difference. However, I always use primary partitions, because I've had extended ones occasionally go missing (ie, suddenly appear as unformatted space).