Primary or Extended Partion?

[GTaudiophile]

I just got an external USB harddrive. How should I partition it? I want to have two paritions, one ~40Gb and the other ~20GB. Which of the following should I do (I will not be installing an OS to the drive)?

P/P
P/E
E/E

Thanks!

 

[Nothinman]

I'd just make two primary, you don't need an extended unless you need it to hold logical drives.

 

[FreakyGuy]

Primary all the way!
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[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
P/P
P/E

Like Nothinman said, there's no real reason to use an extended partition unless you need it. And the only reason you would need it is if you need at least 5 total partitions, where the extension will hold "logical" drives. So go with P/P - keep it simple.

E/E

This is not possible. The PC BIOS limits you to a single extended partition. You could do "L/L" - two logicals within a single extension. But that's just adding more complexity than you need. P/P is the way to go.