Assuming one of them is an extended partition on an MS-DOS partition table: Eight. If the partitions are all primary partitions: Four.
A single MBR-Style disk can contain a maximum of four primary partitions.
Four partitions.
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?
4
a. 1
The Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning system can support a maximum of four primary partitions. Alternatively, one of these primary partitions can be designated as an extended partition, which can contain multiple logical partitions, allowing for more than four partitions in total. However, the minimum number of partitions that MBR can support is one.
4 on an ms-dos style partition table
4.
DOS can support multiple partitions as like windows but the maximum partition will be of 2 GB maximum, as DOS supports FAT 16..
4 on ms-dos partition table
True. FAT32 only supports partitions and drives up to 2TB in size. Please refer to the Microsoft KB article below for more information.
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