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How many primary partitions can be created on one hard drive?
four primary
WHAT type of disk uses primary partitions extended partitions and logical drives to organize data?
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.
WHICH ONE OF THESE TYPES DESCRIBES HARD DRIVE PARTITIOND THAT ARE ACCESSED DIRECTLY BY THE OPERATING SYSTEM?
Hard drive partitions that are accessed directly by the operating system are typically referred to as "primary partitions." These partitions can contain a file system and are directly addressable by the OS, allowing it to read and write data. In contrast, logical partitions, which reside within an extended partition, are accessed through the primary partition.
How many primary partition can create?
On MBR partitioned hard-drives only 4 primary partition can be created. (Use extended and logical partitions to create more partitions).
What do you call the divisions on a hard drive?
Partitions divide hard drive space.
What is a disk druid?
Disk Druid Partitions is a program that partitions your hard drive for you.
What does fdisk do?
creates partitions on the hard drive
How do you create different drives on a computer hard disk?
You do it by creating partitions on your hard drives. Partitions are typically created before the hard drive is formatted. Another option is to use a program like Partition Magic to edit partitions on your hard drive. You generally don't want to play around with your partitions too much after you have your OS up and running. Any error may cause you to have to reinstall everything.
How many volumes can a hardrive have?
A hard drive can have multiple volumes. The number of volumes that can be created on a hard drive depends on the operating system and the partitioning scheme being used. Typically, a hard drive can have several partitions or volumes.
How many partitions do dynamic disks have?
Partitions are not something that are the same from drive to drive, or from computer to computer. Partitions are created by the user from unused hard drive space, and have no set size, although there is a relatively small minimum. This means that even one one disk, a user can create literally dozens, if not hundreds.
How many partitions can there be on a hard drive?
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
What contains a map to the partitions on the hard drive?
A partition table
