Primary or Extended?

[Mickey Mouse]

Had trouble with windows recognising my full harddrive size (400gig). Now
I've loaded SP2 the problem is fixed. I've gone into disk management and it
shows C:drive as 127.99 gig NTFS healthy system. It now also shows 244.62
gig Unallocated. I can now utilize the unallocated and partition it into
drive D: I right clicked on the black bar in the unallocated area and
selected "New Partition", the wizard came up and it's now asking if I want
to create a 'Primary or Extended ' partition? WHICH DO I CHOOSE? I get
confused with Primary, Extended and Logical partitions.

My goal is to leave C: drive as is.. 127 gig and the unallocated 244gig as D
drive.

Mickey

 

[M and D]

Tons of info here:
http://www.google.com/search?q=primary+extended+logical+partitions

Steven

 

[Richard Urban]

I would recommend an extended partition.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Mickey Mouse]

Thanks Richard nice to here from you again. I tried that and rebooted but
unsuccessfully so I tried 'primary' which gave me the option to label it and
select the size, I rebooted and now have a D drive. Thanks for the reply,
sometimes you get a wrong answer but it makes the cogs start spinning and a
solution avails.

Thankyou

Mickey

 

[Joe]

Thanks Richard nice to here from you again. I tried that and rebooted but
unsuccessfully so I tried 'primary' which gave me the option to label it and
select the size, I rebooted and now have a D drive. Thanks for the reply,
sometimes you get a wrong answer but it makes the cogs start spinning and a
solution avails.

Thankyou

Mickey

Once you make the extended partition, you will see 'free space' in disk
management. right click that and select new partition. you will make a
logical drive. that is recommended. it wont be bootable though, so if
you are going to install another OS, choose primary.