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A technician is attempting to create multiple partitions on a hard disk. This will allow for storing the operating system and data files on separate partitions. What is the maximum number of primary partitions per hard drive that is supported by Windows XP?
For best results: two separate hard drives, if not, two separate partitions. Two separate operating systems and a bootloader capable of loading multiple operating systems are requirements.
Application Directory Partitions.
Yes you can. You would need to create separate partitions for each operating system - installing each operating system into its own partition. When you switch on the computer, it will show a menu allowing you to choose which operating system you want to start.
No. Vista ruins all windows(non-vista) and RAIDed partitions.
To do that, you need to create two separate partitions on your hard drive and choose a free partition during the OS installations.
A hard drive. Physically it is a single unit (but may have more than one surface or platter to store data). The drive has a 'reference' track - which tells the computer how the drive is divided. You can split a hard-drive into multiple partitions to separate different types of data.
Office partitions are not only for offices. You can use partitions almost anywhere they are needed to separate a room. Some people use them in their bedrooms while sharing with another.
The easiest way to do this is to have an operating system that can read and write the file system of other operating systems. For example, although Ubuntu and many other Linux distributions use the ext3 and ext4 file systems, they can read and write to the NTFS file system used by Windows. However, Windows cannot read ext4. If you do not have an OS that can read files this way, you can alternatively install software that allows you to read partitions of different types. Most notably, Ext2Read can be installed on a Windows machine to read ext2/3/4 partitions (see related links). Another option is to create a separate partition on your hard drive that is formatted as a type that both your OS's can read, then move the files you want to copy into that partitions.
The minimum number of partitions needed to dual boot windows xp and windows vista is actually 2, one for each operating system. However, if your computer was bought and it already had one of those two systems preinstalled and with it a separate windows recovery partition as well as a system reserved partition, then your minimum in that case would be 4 priamry partitions (which also happens to be the maximum allowed if you are using strictly primary partitions. One way to have more than 4 primary partitions is to have one of those partitions become an extended partition which can in turn have as many partitions as you need. I hope that wasn't too confusing
Yes, it's possible but you need to have at least two partitions on your hard drive(s) because they should be installed in separate locations (partitions).
It's called a 'window' (hence the name of the operating system).