On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 07:27:18 -0500, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > > Hm, I don't consider extended partitions as primary ones but as > > extended ones. When I need more than four partitions, I create three > > primary ones, an extended one and logical ones within the extended > > one. Why would I do that any other way? > > > > You cannot have a primary partition that covers the entire disk and > > then some. > > OK, Primary and/or Extended partitions are numbered 1-to-4. Logical > partitions within extended partitions are numbered 5 and up.
And an extended partition is a special type of primary partition. Or you can avoid all this legacy idiocy and confusion by using GPT, which lets you have a sensible number of partitions without fragile kludges. -- Neil Bothwick Shell to DOS... Shell to DOS... DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...
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