Question about HD partitioning......

[neil]

OK, from my knowledge.

Partitioning a HD into 3 "sections" with a WIN9x systems disk.

1st section becomes the Primary
2nd & 3rd become Extended with Logical inside the Extended area.

Now if your going to Partition a HD from within Win2k
you can make all 3 sections of the HD Primary Partitions.

I was just woundering is there a benifit partitioning a HD with all Primary partitions?

 

[AndyHui]

Not really....but if you ran multiple OSes then you wouldbe able to select different active partitions to boot from. You are allowed up to four primary partitions.

 

[NOE]

Hi,

Are you talking about dynamic disks in Win2k?

 

[MGMorden]

You'll get no advantage except for the fact that some os's only will boot from primary partitoin. If win2k is your only os, then just put the partitions on however you want, but as someone has said, you have a limit of 4 primary partitions (and the extended partition will count as 1 primary, though I'm not sure how many logical paritions you can have within the extended).