On Wednesday 24 March 2004 04:17 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > Perhaps I should have qualified. You can have up to 4 primary partitions > on a hard drive but only one can be marked active. Windows and DOS will > only "see" the active primary partition and will ignore all others. >
DOS or Windows /9x/ME won't see the additional primary partitions as you noted. Windows 2k and XP will see the other primaries and happily assign them drive letters if the format is compatible with reading in Windows (along with any logical partitions inside any extended partitions that are readable, subject to your configuration instructing Windows which partitions you want drive letters assigned to.) Here's an example of someone creating a boot and data partition from Windows XP: http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_06.htm And, includes two primary partitions. I often mount Linux ext3 partitions in Windows using an aftermarket driver, and can then read and write to these easily. If they'd make a version of that driver compatible with a ReiserFS I'd be ecstatic. Extended partitions are very useful when one needs them. Keep in mind that a badly messed up logical partition inside an extended partition can foul up other logical partitions inside the extended partition. The data in a primary partition is much safer. Rick Kunath
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