- Disk Primary or extended?
- Posted by John on October 4th, 2004
I have just added a new hard drive. I only want it for storage, and no fancy
boot configurations. Do I format it as a primary or extended partition?
Thanks for any help.
John
- Posted by Kadaitcha Man on October 4th, 2004
John, <spam@virgin.net>, the resentful, overwrought ruffian, and improver of
old hags, crabbed:
You can create 4 primary partitions before you have to use extended
partitions. If you're not going to partition it beyond that and just use it
for storage, just create a primary partition.
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- Posted by Gary G. Taylor on October 4th, 2004
John wrote:
Google for "setting up hard drive" or "formatting hard drive." Basically,
you must have a primary partition; you need an extended partition only if
you will have more than one partition on the drive.
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- Posted by why? on October 4th, 2004
On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 13:31:28 GMT, John wrote:
If you never want to boot from it and it's just for storage use an
extended partition.
If you have a primary partn and move it to another PC other drive
letters start to change. With extended you simply move it and set it's
new drive letter.
Me
