Primary Vs Logical...........

[EdzAviator]

Guyz...

I am adding a secong HDD...
I already had a Primary & Logical Partition in the 1st HDD...

My Second HDD is 320GB WD for Files & Back Up...I want to used the entire HDD for a
SINGLE PARTITION....Should I used Primary of Logical..????

Is there any difference is performance if I used Primary instead of the traditional Logical for Drives that are not installed with OS....???

Any trade-offs of using Primary instead of Logical...???

Or Logical is the best way to go...???

Plz reply....

 

[CalvinHobbes]

For a single partition, primary.

 

[EdzAviator]

Can you explain why should it be Primary considering I already have a Primary in my 1st HDD
which has Win XP on it...

The 2nd is for Data Back Up Purposes....

I just don't know the Pros & Cons of using Primary or Logical on a Single HDD...

 

[Dahak]

pretty much no difference, only that you cannot install an os to a logical partition (unless there is a primary to install boot files too)

 

[Nothinman]

Logical partitions are just a hack to work around the limitation of 4 primary partitions. The partitions on one drive have no bearing at all on what the partitions on another drive should look like.

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Logical partitions are just a hack to work around the limitation of 4 primary partitions. The partitions on one drive have no bearing at all on what the partitions on another drive should look like.

:thumbsup:

 

[Drexl]

I believe Windows will assign drive letters to primary partitions in order, then logical drives. So, if you had 2 drives and the first one was set up with a primary and an extended partition while the second had a primary partition, drive letter D would be assigned to the primary partition on the second drive. Of course this can be changed in Disk Management anyway.

 

[EdzAviator]

Thanks...........

I'm going with Primary........