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Name: leongpow Date: April 10, 2004 at 23:09:42 Pacific OS: winxp CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
how to make more than 1 primary partitions in 1 hdd?
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: April 11, 2004 at 00:12:57 Pacific
Reply:
You can't. If you're trying to setup a multi boot system you'll need some kind of boot manager.
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Response Number 2
Name: efs2 Date: April 11, 2004 at 01:15:58 Pacific
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Greetings: You can used fdisk to make multiple partitions, but only one will be the "primary" partition. A second partition is an "extended" partition. Creating partitions is a fairly complicated, multi-step procedure that is set forth pretty well in an MS Knowledge Base document at:
Name: wizard-fred Date: April 11, 2004 at 01:19:51 Pacific
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You cannot have more than 1 primary partition if you use FDISK. If you use a third party partitioner such as Partition Magic you can have up to 4 with Microsoft Operating systems. Only one can be active (being the boot drive) at any given time. The extended partition is also a primary partition.
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Response Number 4
Name: Dave357 Date: April 11, 2004 at 07:14:54 Pacific
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wizard-fred
>The extended partition is also a primary partition.
Uh...no, it's not. A Primary DOS Partition is very different than an Extended Partition.
HTH
Dave
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Response Number 5
Name: wizard-fred Date: April 11, 2004 at 07:29:14 Pacific
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Dave357: I'm talking the Base Extended Partition, not the logical partition(s) that it may contain. That is what Partition Magic labels the "Extended Partition".
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Response Number 6
Name: Dave357 Date: April 11, 2004 at 07:38:08 Pacific
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wizard-fred, I had assumed that you were talking about fdisk's partitions.
What version od PM are you using? I have PM7, & I don't remember it using those terms (though I could be wrong...I'll have to boot up my other PC to check).
Dave
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Response Number 7
Name: wizard-fred Date: April 11, 2004 at 12:24:52 Pacific
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I have PM versions 4 to 8
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Response Number 8
Name: mosaddique Date: April 12, 2004 at 12:10:15 Pacific
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wizard-fred is right.
The extended partition is a special kind of primary partition which allows logical drives to be hosted.
The extended partition was invented to get over the maximum number of 4 partitoins allowed.
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Name: keith w Date: April 14, 2004 at 15:14:18 Pacific
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