Win2000 + Extended Partitions

[yak8998]

I'm running windows 2000 SP1 (i havent connected this machine to the internet yet, i have to copy some data first) and im trying to set up a 2ndary harddrive with 5 partitions, but apparently you cannot make extended partitions with the disk mngr snap-in?? any ideas?

thx

 

[yak8998]

solved my own problem, i dont get partitions too good =/

you have to make 3 primaries, and then an extended which will contain all your other drives

 

[CQuinn]

Uhh, no you don't.

I can create a single extended partition on a drive just fine with the disk manager.
This is running Windows 2000 SP4, but I'm pretty sure that is the same with SP1.

AFAIR, if you are going to have any primary partitions on the drive, Windows prefers it if they
are created before the extended partition, but it is not necessary to have a primary at all.

So I don't know what the nature of your problem was, but the cause lies elsewhere.

 

[Nothinman]

You can have 4 primary partitions, but if you create an extended partition it takes one of the primary slots.

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
You can have 4 primary partitions, but if you create an extended partition it takes one of the primary slots.

Yup. So maybe you were trying to do 4 primary + 1 extended (=1 logical)? That's not going to work. You'd have to do 3 primary + 1 extended (= 2 logicals) if you want 5 usable partitions.