building 2 primary partitions
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hi to all!!!! windows-xp home edition is installed in my system. i wanna know how to build 2 primary partitions
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hi to all!!!! windows-xp home edition is installed in my system. i wanna know how to build 2 primary partitions
Fortunately for you, there can be only one primary (hence the name!) partition on a drive. If your Windows XP installation is in a partition that is taking up the entire drive, you'll have to use a third party partitioning tool to resize the existing partition so you don't loose everything, and you can then create a second partition on the drive.
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hi to all!!!! windows-xp home edition is installed in my system. i wanna know how to build 2 primary partitions
Hi, IIRC Windows knows of only one primary partition on a disk; all other partitions are either invisible, ignored, or treated as "logical" partitions. But some tools (I use PowerQuest PartitionMagic) are indicating there can be more than one primary partition. My disk in a Dell laptop has 4 primary partitions, 1 being Dell-specific (I think it is either a recovery thing or the hibernate feature), 1 is the normal C: partition 1 is an "extended partition" that, at the Windows level, holds all the extra drive letters (such as E:, F:, G:, ...) 1 is holding some spare room. And IIRC I once had a desktop PC with Norton Commander, supporting multiple "primary partitions" and a boot selection (again, once booted, the running Windows OS would only see one of those, i.e. its own C:). Hope this helps :)
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Fortunately for you, there can be only one primary (hence the name!) partition on a drive. If your Windows XP installation is in a partition that is taking up the entire drive, you'll have to use a third party partitioning tool to resize the existing partition so you don't loose everything, and you can then create a second partition on the drive.
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Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007I believe you have a little mix-up in your terminology ;) There can be up to four "primary partitions" on a disk, where "primary" simply indicated the "most basic partitioning system". Extended partitions are primary partitions, too. There can only be one ACTIVE primary partition, though. See here for more information.[^]
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hi to all!!!! windows-xp home edition is installed in my system. i wanna know how to build 2 primary partitions
You can use disk management from (Run:compmgmt.msc) you may use Partition magic or a sort like this...
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I believe you have a little mix-up in your terminology ;) There can be up to four "primary partitions" on a disk, where "primary" simply indicated the "most basic partitioning system". Extended partitions are primary partitions, too. There can only be one ACTIVE primary partition, though. See here for more information.[^]
Cheers, Sebastian -- "If it was two men, the non-driver would have challenged the driver to simply crash through the gates. The macho image thing, you know." - Marc Clifton
Well your right for your explanation but let me add that the primary partition is the one that we can wright on their bootsector(located at the first sector from the first track(512KB) of your PRIMARY partition only which is also called BOOT partiton ) that is, operating systems may be installed on one till 4 primary partitons that gives you a chance for multi-boot(Windows, Linux, BSD Unix ..etc.) on same machine, and extended partitons cannot be boot partitions and thus they may hold logical drives for saving data only! I really do not agree with you that
Sebastian Schneider wrote:
"primary" simply indicated the "most basic partitioning system". Extended partitions are primary partitions, too.
Correct me if I am wrong!!
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