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Do you need to create a primary partition for every os installed on a dual boot computer?
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No. Windows is pretty much the only operating system that cares about primary vs. logical partitions when it comes to booting. Linux will happily live in logical partitions.
That being said, with UEFI becoming that standard, logical vs. primary partitions aren't even going to be concepts anymore, as the GPT scheme doesn't limit partition counts the same way as MBR, allowing hundreds of primary partitions, way more than even highly specialized applications would ever need.
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How many primary partition can create?
On MBR partitioned hard-drives only 4 primary partition can be created. (Use extended and logical partitions to create more partitions).
How to create a fourth primary partition on a basic disk?
Diskpart.exe
How can a hardrive be configured to provide this perception?
Create one primary partition and an extended partition with four logical drives within it.
How do you free unallocated space on your laptop hard drive?
You have to create the primary partition, which will create a drive with assigned letter for you. Or you can create the extended partition where you can create logical drives it can be more than 1.
Why might you use the Extend Disk Partition option?
Typically you can only have 4 primary partitions per hard drive if you are using the MBR partition layout scheme. If you need more partitions than the maximum allowed (4), then there is a way to get many more partitions with only one hard drive.By creating an extended partition you can have as many logical partitions as you need within that extended partition, thus you can have more than only four partitions. You can have 3 primary partitions and one extended partition (for a total of 4), and inside the extended partition you can have as many logical partitions as you need.The one thing to keep in mind is that any type of Windows Operating System needs to be installed in a primary partition, otherwise you cannot boot into it. Windows XP in particular, needs to be installed in the first primary partition. For everything else, you can create as many logical partitions as you want inside the extended partition.
To create a fourth primary partition what utility do you use?
DiskPart command - line utility
What utility do you use to create a fourth primary partition on a basic disk?
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When using Fdisk which option is used to create the primary DOS partition?
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A technician needs to configure the hard drive on a computer so that there appears to be one drive for the operating system and four drives for data from different applications How can the hard driv?
Create one primary partition and an extended partition with four logical drives within it.
How can you tell how many partitions your hard drive has?
You will need to open up the disk management window on you computer. To do this open up the control panel and search for "partition" then click the link that says "Create and format hard disk partitions". From here you can view and modify all the partitions on any disk on your computer.
Is there a way to create a fourth primary partition on a basic disk in windows 7?
DiskPart command - line utility
When using fdisk to prepare a primary partition for ms-dos 6.22 what is the maximum size you can create?
2 GB
