As many as it can handle (how big it is). And adding partitions does not make more space.
It's like putting a brick wall in the middle of a football field. :-P
This is depend on your disk style, if your disk is MBR, you could only create four primary partitions or three primary partitions with one Extended partition (you could create many logical partition under extended partition) at most
If your disk style is GPT, you could create as many as you can.
here is an article about how to make partition from
http://www.partition-magic-windows7.com/res/create-partition-windows7.html
Only one extended partition can be added using a DOS fdisk or Windows XP or 2000. This partition can be divided into 60 logical drives.
Partitions can be added and removed by the user, they are not fixed (though generally messing with partition tables will require a format of the drive).
You can only have one active partition per hard disk.
As far as I know, there can be infinite partitions. Obviously it depends on the size of the hard drive but I know you can easily get 5 partitions on a single hard drive
Ther can only be one Extended Partition per hard drive
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four primary
Partitions divide hard drive space.
Disk Druid Partitions is a program that partitions your hard drive for you.
creates partitions on the hard drive
It means to make a single Hard Drive into many. When you buy any hard drive it is used normally as one partition. After you format it you can change the partitioning into different sizes you want. You can make a 500 gig hd into five 100gig partitions (it would show up as 5 different hd icons) or two 250 gig partitions, (it would show up as 2 hard drives) etc. The down fall of having partitions is if the hard drive died ALL the partitions die with it. The partitions are still part of ONE hard drive.
Hard drives have no physical limit on the number of partitions that can be placed on them. The limitations are dependent on the system architecture and the operating system.
A partition table
Partitions are not something that are the same from drive to drive, or from computer to computer. Partitions are created by the user from unused hard drive space, and have no set size, although there is a relatively small minimum. This means that even one one disk, a user can create literally dozens, if not hundreds.
when there is remaining non-partitioned space on a hard drive, this can be mounted and formatted as a new volume with hard drives, as you can create partitions of any size, you can create as many volumes as you wish on the drive
A hard drive can have multiple volumes. The number of volumes that can be created on a hard drive depends on the operating system and the partitioning scheme being used. Typically, a hard drive can have several partitions or volumes.