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Thread ID: 66804	2006-03-07 19:30:00	Partition oddity	Greg (193)	Press F1

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436444	2006-03-07 19:30:00	I'm a bit confused about why some of my partitions are "partitions", and some are logical drives. I've only just noticed this, since my older bugger, I mean brother stupidly went and reinstalled Windows on the machine a few months ago. I've got two drives. Drive 1 is divided into four, with a primary partition, and three logical drives. Drive 2 is divided into two, with two primary partitions. Somehow I don't think this is the best setup. Is there any recommended ways I should change things to? The PC is running perfectly. Win XP Pro SP1	Greg (193)
436445	2006-03-08 00:59:00	Partitions are partitions are "drives" . There are a couple of flavours, because partitioning goes back a long way, when disks were fairly small . You can have only four primary partitions . This was plenty when big disks were 20 or 40 MB . When the disks became much bigger, and people wanted more partitions, extended partitions were invented . In MS, you can have up to three of those plus one primary . The advantage is that each extended partition can contain a number of logical partitions . There will be another partition shown by FDISK /STATUS , the extended partition on your disk 1 . You can't access an extended partition . . . it's just a container . Using logical partitions doesn't affect the performance . A logical partition is just the same as a primary partition in use . (OK, Windows might not boot from a logical . ;) ) . If it works, why fix it?	Graham L (2)
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