> > 2. Can the presence of two extended partitions, though possible,
> > freak out windows or linux? ok, not linux ... but windows?
> >
> IMHO you can't have two extended partitions on a single disk.
> Atleast linux/dos fdisk does not allow this.
>
this is a limitation of the bios, and this was followed in the
partitioning software too, you can have four partitions,
three primary and one extended or all four primary to
the maximum.
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