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What type of DOS hard drive partition can contain only one logical drive?
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What is a hdc6 partition?
in Linux this is the second logical drive inthe extended partition on the primary slave hard drive
List three types of information contained in a hard drive's partition table?
A map to the partitions on the hard drive. This table tells BIOS how many partitions the drive has and how each partitions is divided into one or more logical drives, which partition contains the drive to be used for booting (called the active partition), and where each logical drive begins and ends.1-map to the partitions on on the hard drive2-information about where each logical drive is located, where it starts and where it ends3-which partition contains the drive to be used for booting (the active partition)The first is a map to the partitions on the harddrive,and how they are divided, the second, which partition contains the drive to be used for booting this is called the "Active Partition", and third where each logical begin and ends.
What partition is the active partition of the hard drive?
The system partition(a partition where the operating system is installed) is the active partition of the Hard Drive
When windows 2000xp is installed on a new hard drive each partition is divided into one or more what?
logical drives
How many logical drives can be created on a fat drive?
When you partition a hard drive into two or more partitions (storage areas) those extra drives are called logical drives. So you can have 2 or 3 or more logical drives on one physical hard drive. It varies.
The partition is the active partition of the hard drive?
system partition
What partition of the hard drive is the active partition?
System partition
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 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.
Where is the partition table on a hard drive found?
Most of the time the boot partition and the system partition are the same partition on the drive C.
What contains a map to the partitions on a hard drive?
The area on the hard drive that contains a map to all the partition on the drive is called the partition table. That is what partition utilities edit when you add, delete, convert, or resize a partition.
What is the fourth partition on a hard drive called?
extended partition
