What is the difference between the primay, logical, or extended partition? Or maybe I should rephrase it. What would I need a logical or extended partition in DOS for? What is a logical or extended partition? 
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Different Partitions?
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Old DOS versions of the FDISK command allow you to create up to four partitions on your hard drive. One of the partitions can be designated a Primary partition, and the others have to be Extended. The Primary partition will be the one used to boot the computer; you should format it so that DOS or some other operating system resides on this partition. The logical partition ia a partition that exists within an extended partition.
DOS and windows(pre ME, not NT,2000, or XP) can only use a partition set to no larger then a certin size depending on the version or you will get file system errors. They were writting before the "large disk boom".
DOS and windows(pre ME, not NT,2000, or XP) can only use a partition set to no larger then a certin size depending on the version or you will get file system errors. They were writting before the "large disk boom".
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uhhh....let me explain it in this way so that you dont run into any problems
Primary is primay (c
Extended is how much of the hard drive will be used for other partitions
Logical additional drives (d:, e:, f
Things to consider, if you want only one partition all you need is primary...
If you want more than one, one LARGE WARNING...Extended is not a drive but a reserve space for logical. So if you create an extended it'll require logical partitions. if you only make a primary and extended without any logical, you in trouble. no way you can fix it, with the exception of third party software. And that is a pain
Primary is primay (c
Extended is how much of the hard drive will be used for other partitions
Logical additional drives (d:, e:, f
Things to consider, if you want only one partition all you need is primary...
If you want more than one, one LARGE WARNING...Extended is not a drive but a reserve space for logical. So if you create an extended it'll require logical partitions. if you only make a primary and extended without any logical, you in trouble. no way you can fix it, with the exception of third party software. And that is a pain
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Actually you can fix it, just run Fdisk again and create logical partitions.....I do it all the time....camphlps said:uhhh....let me explain it in this way so that you dont run into any problems
Primary is primay (c
Extended is how much of the hard drive will be used for other partitions
Logical additional drives (d:, e:, f
Things to consider, if you want only one partition all you need is primary...
If you want more than one, one LARGE WARNING...Extended is not a drive but a reserve space for logical. So if you create an extended it'll require logical partitions. if you only make a primary and extended without any logical, you in trouble. no way you can fix it, with the exception of third party software. And that is a pain
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yep what doofus said, i have done it many times. fdisk is a wonderful program, shame it cant make NTFS partitions...
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On the NTFS thing, Actually you can create the partitions using FDISK and then using windows NT/2000/XP you can then format them as NTFS......but it's actually easier to use Windows 2000/XP to create the partitions because you can do it within windows if it's not the boot partition....marduke said:
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Partition Magic makes all of this childsplay. You can very quickly\easily resize, split, manage, etc your hard drive(s). Symantec bought them out recently, they're up to version 8 now, I'm back @ v7. It's a solid product...
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yes thats true, but what i was getting at was that fdisk cannot create NTFS partitions.
but yeah partition magic is great!
but yeah partition magic is great!
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look doofus, you may not have done what i had a customer give me. when you go to add logical it says no extended is available and if you try to delete partitions it says you must delete logical first, but there isnt any....and this is all in fdisk
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I never tried partition magic is it easier? So, the primary partition is for the hard drive and that is the partition that I will use when I boot up the system. Why would I use a logical or extended partition? Can you give me examples on when or what I could use it for? Thanks for the help I appreciate it.
Can you give me examples on when or what I could use it for? Thanks for the help I appreciate it.
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you are right about that, what I'm talking about though is either a new drive or a plain fat/fat32 drive being partitioned and then being formated as NTFS.....when you use Fdisk on an existing NTFS drive it will give you a hard time sometimes.....camphlps said:
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camphlps said:
you can use delpart for that if you can find a copy. It used to ship with one of the NT versions in the admin tools... (3.5 I think)
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