unallocated disk space

[Wayne]

Had a new hard drive installed for the original that
crashed. Currently running XP upgraded from ME. It is
showing the hard disk as 15.5G while the physical size is
above 70G. In allocating the unused hard disk space is it
better to create a primary or extended partition or go
with a logical drive? Just a home computer with no
elaborate requirements. Have the instructions for
creating the new partition or drive, just didn't know
which was best for basic use.

 

[@drian]

Had a new hard drive installed for the original that
crashed. Currently running XP upgraded from ME. It is
showing the hard disk as 15.5G while the physical size is
above 70G. In allocating the unused hard disk space is it
better to create a primary or extended partition or go
with a logical drive? Just a home computer with no
elaborate requirements. Have the instructions for
creating the new partition or drive, just didn't know
which was best for basic use.

For any partition after Windows, on the same disk, I usually make it an
extended partition/section. Then from there, you can create logical
partitions on the extended section. I think you would only create primary
partitions if you plan to boot them from, which in my case, I don't.

@drian.