Re: Max Number of Partitions.

[Glenn Evanish <glenn pop06 odn ne jp>]

>A minor correction:
>There are up to 4 "primary" partitions.
>One of these 4 primary partitions can be marked as type
>"DOS Extended", and can then contain "logical" partitions.
>You can have up to 4 extended partitions thus, by marking
>them all that way, but I think DOS/Windows have trouble
>understanding what is going on if there is more than one
>extended.  Doing so is pointless anyway.
>
>        - Kevin Colby
>          kevinc grainsystems com

Got pretty interested when I read this, so I put Partition Magic 4.0 to
work on it this morning.  Seems that, since there is already an extended on
it, PM doesn't even want to give me the option of creating a second extended.

Kevin or anybody else, just how would I create a second extended on the
same HD?  Do I need to use something other than PM?  What might that be?
Linux's Disk Druid or fdisk seem to create a lot of logicals in the same
extended.

TIA,

Glenn Evanish

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