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Thread ID: 73499 2006-10-21 00:57:00 primary vs logical partitions LOWTEC (7821) Press F1
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492981 2006-10-21 00:57:00 I realise this has been covered before and have searched but still unsure which to use. I have a hdd with a windows partition (60gb) and the other 130gb is unallocated atm. I want to partition the rest of the space to just store misc data (video files etc...) what do I use, logical or primary? I thought logical but then read that if in doubt just use primary.

any help would be great

Cheerz
LOWTEC (7821)
492982 2006-10-21 01:20:00 Logical. pctek (84)
492983 2006-10-21 02:28:00 If you're putting it all in, you may as well use a primary partition. The numbering is a bit neater that way :) . Logical partitions are a well established trick to allow you to have more than four partitions on a single drive. Now if only Windows supported LVM :D TGoddard (7263)
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