Re: Max Number of Partitions.

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

Glenn Evanish wrote:
> >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.

I thought I had done this with Linux's fdisk, but I could be
wrong.  That said, there truly is not much of a point to doing
so, since I'm fairly certain DOS/Windows will not like you.
Just use one extended and you'll be fine.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com