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.
A local disk is any hard drive or disk partition on the computer in question. So in order to "create" one, you need to either add a new hard drive, or partition the existing one.
A local disk is any hard drive or disk partition on the computer in question. So in order to "create" one, you need to either add a new hard drive, or partition the existing one.
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.
Partition the disk.
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The Fdisk command is used to change hard disk partitions in DOS.
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
By default C: is the active partition of the hard disk drive
The OS is stored in the Hard Disk of the computer.
You are supposed to have unallocated disk space if you want to create more partitions. So if you want to split one partition in two you have to delete the partition and then using the unallocated space create two new partitions. There are simpler ways to do that, for instance, using special software such as Partition Magic, Acronis disk editor and so on.
It is the 6th partition of you primary IDE hard drive. hd stands for hard disk ( Please note that in case of SCSI the names would be sd) Disks are numbered as hda, hdb, hdc and so on partitions are numbered as 1, 2, 3 and so on So hda1 is the first partition on first hard disk and hdb2 is the second partition on second hard disk.
Go to control panel - administrative tools - disk management. There will be all the tools in a handy console to format and partition your hard drive.