sata,ata,and scsi
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 basic disk contains 3 logical partitions, but only one of them can be the primary partition. This is only if the system has enough free space.
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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.
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.
Ther can only be one Extended Partition per hard drive
1. IDE Hard Disk 2. SATA Hard Disk 3. SCSI Hard Disk 4. Ultra SCSI Hard Disk
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.
I'm Thinking you want to delete the partitions on a hard drive for a PC.. The best and easyest way to delete a partition is to down load a win 98se boot disk and delete it that way.. let the floppy read and go to the #3 then the #4 if you're using winxp.. if you're using an older system like 98se or win me, you will pick 1 not 3..
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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.
SATA , ATA and SCSi