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Primary partition
Name: GALEHICKEY Date: September 2, 2002 at 04:34:45 Pacific
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I have a pc with one hard drive and am going to install a second drive. Does it have to have a primary partition? I know there can only be one active paetition but what is the purpose of a primary partition?
Name: Milk Date: September 2, 2002 at 05:20:06 Pacific
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Hi,
Yes need a separate primary partition on the second hard drive if your going to store files on it, even if you dont run an operating system on that drive.
-Milk
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Response Number 2
Name: easy Date: September 2, 2002 at 07:46:59 Pacific
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A primary partition on the second drive is not necessary unless you plan on running a dual boot system , and actually is somewhat confusing if you put one on it because of drive letter assignments , that is if you partition the first drive with 2 or more partitions and put a primary on the slave drive you will have " master primary = C:" "slave primary = D:" "master extended partition, logical partition 1 = E:" and so on and so forth.
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Response Number 3
Name: sidney Date: September 2, 2002 at 07:58:28 Pacific
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TO Easy. What is the purpose of installing a second drive? If you do not create a partition on the drive you cannot format or save ANY data on it.
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Response Number 4
Name: dell Date: September 2, 2002 at 09:15:35 Pacific
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You can create an 'Extended' partition instead of 'Primary' partition.
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Response Number 5
Name: easy Date: September 2, 2002 at 11:11:58 Pacific
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as dell stated you create an extended dos partition and then create logical drives within that partition , no primary partition needed on the second drive unless you intend to install a dual boot system.
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Response Number 6
Name: DelBoy Date: September 2, 2002 at 13:26:28 Pacific
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You cannot dual boot windows at all!
Just like to make that point!
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Response Number 7
Name: easy Date: September 2, 2002 at 18:33:18 Pacific
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windows 98 and windows 2000 professional dual boot quite nicely actually, and if you will just do a little searching on multiboot systems you will find that you can triple boot win9X and NT4 or 2000 or XP right along with LINUX , I know this to be a fact as I have a triple boot system setup myself. this article will show you how to set one up if you are interested. http://www.tweak3d.net/articles/multibootlinux/
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Response Number 8
Name: Dave357 Date: September 2, 2002 at 20:23:46 Pacific
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And with a third-party boot manager, you can boot as many OS's as you want. This machine boots 5 versions of Windows plus Linux.
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