Primary or Logical?

[Coolone]

I just got a new HD, and I forgot if I want to partition it as a primary or logical partition, its the primary slave

any ideas?

I should be okay if I make it a primary partition, right? or is that reserved for the drive that the OS is on?

 

[AMCRambler]

No you can have two primary partitions on the system I believe. I forget if it's two per drive, or if it's two per computer. I've had two before though. Fdisk won't let you format it primary if you've reached your limit though.

 

[CQuinn]

You can have up to 4 primary partitions per drive, or
3 primary and one extended partition.

Keep in mind that Windows 98/ME and lower can have problems with managing more than one
primary partition on each drive. Windows NT/2000/XP do not have that concern.

If you are planning on booting off of the new drive, then you may want to create at least one
primary partitition on it.