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    Always Twirling Toward Freedom pooon's Avatar
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    Does anyone understand partitions?

    I was using partition magic to resize my drives and such and I noticed this one drive (Extended) thats occupying 27 gigs of my hard drive. Does anyone know what this is or how to find it. Heres a pic.




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    looks to be unallocated, unless you have another OS on your machine

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    nope, just the one. And patition magic won't let me do anything with it.

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    oh, nevermind, I figured it out. That 27 gigs is just refering to the 3 drives below my main one.

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    yeah, was gonna say that looked like a container for your drives. physical vs. logical.

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    normally speaking you can have up to four primary partitions on one physical hard drive
    or you can have three primaries and one extended

    now the primary partitions are used as boot partitions, i.e. only from them a PC can start

    you can have only one extended though, which you can divide into any number of Logical partitions from D: to Z:

    so the 27 GIGs extended are the sum of your Logical partitions

    so Primary(s) + Extended/Logical = full size of hard disk

    seeing that you use either windows 2000 or XP

    you can right click My Computer, then choose Manage then Disk Management, that will give you a graphical representation of how your hard disk is divided, and what's primary and what's extended, there's a color code explained at the bottom of the window

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