4 Primary partitions

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Original Message

Name: Fishbell
Date: March 23, 2001 at 07:56:43 Pacific
Subject: 4 Primary partitions

Comment:

Is there any way of getting 4 primary partitions on a hard drive?? Ive got 3, but i now want 4, any ideas any one ??
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Response Number 1

Name: spaz
Date: March 23, 2001 at 08:22:06 Pacific

Reply: (edit)

you could have four primaries providing you don't have an extended partition. the extended partition uses up the fourth Pri. beyond four partitions you must use 3 Pri, 1 extended and an unlimited (for practical purposes) number of logical drives.

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