A drive needs a minimum of one partition in order to be usable by an operating system.
You will need at least two partitions.
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.
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
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principle of explosives safety
He did the minimum amount of work possible.Most people want the minimum amount of yard work possible.
No, on the contrary: it contais the maximum amount of solute (in the minimum amount of solvent)
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what is the minimum amount you can sue someone at a federal level
The minimum amount of work needed to finish this task.
There is no minimum.
Usually These 'Hidden Partitions Are Backup and Restore Partitions.