On normal SATA it is 15. IDEs is much more, 64 i think. Or maybe double or trible.
But if you are using fdisk from terminal in linux, it is noo problem to make more than 15 partitions on a SATA. I made 60 before it hit the max. These are empty partitions which are now easily modified by programs like gparted.
it depends on how many operating systems will be run off the hard disk. in a one OS computer you may not ever see a partition. On my computer, however, I have 3 OS's running off one terabit Hard disk (Win 7, Ubuntu 10.10, & Mac OSX) therefore I have 3 partitions at 333 gigs each
You can make 3 Primary partitions and 1 extended partition, although the extended partition can then be split down into drives, but the answer you need here is 4.
maximum number of partition that can be created on a hard drive?
I do not know if any operating systems have a maximum they can or will recognize, however, as partitions have a very small minimum size relative to today's hard drives...lots.
That depends on the drive and formatting software.
Only one primary partition, one extended, and no fixed number of logical partitions.
maximum 4 partition
u can make 4 partitions in 80 gb harddisk of 19000! simple
Yes, there are commercial products for this purpose. Partition magic is one of the genre.
Just use a magic partition manager to help you. You can create, resize, move, format, delete, shrink, extend partiton freely with this nice partition tool. Such as miniaide magic partition,minitool partition wizard(free), you can experience the cool magic partition right away.
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
c: is that partition of ur harddisk from where ur system boots and d drive is any other partition.
You purchase 40GB IDE hard disk drive and create 3 partition but after some time any problem format this hardisk by window xp CD no show any partition but other system connect this harddisk in secendery channel show all partition.?pls tell me how to removed this problem.In: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/4311, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/5453 [Edit categories] capitalOneround('alternateMsg');
A hard disk is what all your files, including the Operating System are stored in. There are many sizes of hard disk and what the capacity is.
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you can the hard drive must be formatted in fat32 with a partition of 127 gig (max for fat32) any more and it won't recognise the files. mine will not recognise the second partition but i use it for storing movies i am not watching i change the around when i want to watch a different set.
If you have harddisk in hand outside of a computer you can read the model details and specifications printed on the harddisk. If it is inside a computer and you are running the computer with a Windows operating system, you can use File Explorer or My Computer icon to see the harddisk details. If it is a C: drive you can also right click and see properties which will show you total size, used and free space (this size is based on partition information of the drive and is it has more than one partitions or have space that has not been used in the logical drive partition it may show less size compared to the actual physical capacity of the HDD. For more details in a Windows XP machine you can also go to Start-> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management This will give you all the details you need to know about the harddisk drives installed in the computer. - Neeraj Sharma
no you can not