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Ultimately, it can be limitless, but most hard drives will restrict you to 10. (being 0-9)
There are alternate methods used to create many more, but the more partitions you have, the more long term damage it can do to your hard drive. I wouldn't recommend doing more than 5 on a 500GB.
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∙ 14y agoOnly one partition can be active at any given point i time.
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A basic disk contains 3 logical partitions how many of these partitions can be marked as active?
Only 1
How many partitions can be created on a given harddisk?
4 ----- Dhyan Tripathi You can have 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition containing any number of logical partitions. While you can assign a drive letter to a partition, you can also map it as
A basic contains 3 logical partitions How many of these partitions can be primary partitions?
1
How may partitions are on a computer system?
Depends, you can make as many partitions as you want.
How many partition can create hard disk 1500gb?
You can create as many partitions as you want.The no of partitions depends on your wish and the size of each partition. You can either have 3 partitions of 500 GB each. or 15 partitions of 100GB each.
List three types of information contained in a hard drive's partition table?
A map to the partitions on the hard drive. This table tells BIOS how many partitions the drive has and how each partitions is divided into one or more logical drives, which partition contains the drive to be used for booting (called the active partition), and where each logical drive begins and ends.1-map to the partitions on on the hard drive2-information about where each logical drive is located, where it starts and where it ends3-which partition contains the drive to be used for booting (the active partition)The first is a map to the partitions on the harddrive,and how they are divided, the second, which partition contains the drive to be used for booting this is called the "Active Partition", and third where each logical begin and ends.
How many drive partitions are supported on computers that still conform to the standard?
4 partitions
Office Partitions ?
form_title= Office Partitions form_header= Create more work space when you section off the office with partitions. How many partitions will you need?*= {10, 20, 30, 40, 50, More than 50} Why do you want the partitions?*= _ [50] What are the dimensions of the partitions?*= _ [50]
A basic disk contains 3 logical partitions how many of these partitions can be primary partitions?
A basic disk contains 3 logical partitions, but only one of them can be the primary partition. This is only if the system has enough free space.
Partition is the opposite of?
A partition is the opposite of something being open. Many companies put partitions in between employees desks to given them some type of privacy.
How many partitions does a SCSI support?
127
How many primary partitions does MBR support?
A single MBR-Style disk can contain a maximum of four primary partitions.
