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Primary | Extended Partitions and logical drives.

Could someone please explain what :

Primary Partitions are :

Extended Partitions are :

Logical Drives are :

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and if anyone could tell me what an active partition is :)

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Primary Partitions are :

Primary partitions are used to start the computer. These are used to isolate operating systems. With Windows 2000 you can only have a max of 4 primary partitions. With one of these partitions you assign one as active and only one can b active at once.

Extended Partitions are :

This is created from free space. You can only ever have one.You dont format extended partitions you divide them up into logical drives.

Logical Drives are :

Is an extended partition divided up

Is this about right ?

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can any one add to this ?

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thank you for the info sirbounty

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Can you only ever have 2 operating systems on one hard drive ? or can you have more

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It's best to keep operating systems seperated on different partitions, as a general rule...

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Can you only ever have 2 operating systems on one hard drive ? or can you have more

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You 'can' - but it's certainly not good practice...
You would just do custom installs and place the different OSs into different folders.
IE
C:\WinXP
C:\Win2K
C:\Windows