hard drive question

[ssanubisss]

ok I have a 250 gb hard drive and the c drive is only 127.99 gb i have sp 4 for win 2k. alright so i got most of this worked i can see the rest of the space using the disk manager i just have one question. what type of partitions should i make the second drive ?? a primary or extended ?? i dont know much about this so that is why im asking. thanks for the help

 

[The Boston Dangler]

You can have only one Primary partition, that's what makes it primary. If you're only using 1 OS, then the second partition would be an extension of the first, and it's own logical drive with a drive letter.

 

[Hough NutZ]

From this thread....

Originally posted by: birdpup

Originally posted by: ingeborgdot
So two extended partitions? Why extended over primary?

A hard drive can only contain 4 primary partitions. This is a physical limit based on physical hard drive design. Because of this 4 partition limit and the need for more partitions, the extended partition was developed. Any number of extended partitions can be created but they all need to be contiguous to each other.

If you do not expect to require more than 4 partitions on this drive, you can safely create a primary partition. If you may need more than 4 partitions, then the Windows XP system partition is required to be primary, after that you are free to make any number of extended partitions you may need for now or the future.

Many of these questions are elementary disk partitioning questions and the answers can be found on many webpages devoted to this topic by googling for them.
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[ssanubisss]

thanks

 

[JimPhelpsMI]

Hi, Partition Manager says that you can have up to 4 Primary partitions on one drive and then all the rest have to be Extended. I always thought that One primary was all you could have and have always set up that way with no problems. Jim

 

[redhatlinux]

Seems to me that you need the patch to make WIN2k see larger than 128gig. This was a limit that came about by the addressing scheme used. The newer scheme adds more addressing bits to address in the terrabyte range IIRC. Some older mobos may need a bios update as well.