mgh;203023 Wrote: > XP disc management will not allow me to format a 5th partition on this > drive.
I'm a little fuzzy on this, but look into extended partitions: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/structPartitions-c.html > * A maximum of four partitions can be placed on any hard disk. > These are sometimes called primary partitions. The limitation of four > is one that is imposed on the system by the way that the master boot > record is structured. > * Only one partition may be designated, at any given time, as > active. That partition will be used for booting the system. See here > for more on active partitions and switching active status between > partitions. > * DOS (and the operating systems that depend on it for booting, > which includes all consumer Windows operating systems) will only > recognize the active primary partition. Any other primary partitions > will be ignored. > * One of the four partitions may be designated as an extended DOS > partition. This partition may then be subdivided into multiple logical > partitions. This is the way that two or more logical DOS volumes can be > placed on a single hard disk. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35188 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
