Cannot create an extended/logical parition if there are already 4 primary partitions?

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Cindy Parker

As I found out I cannot create an extended/logical partition when there are already 4 primary partitions.
Is this true?

Cindy
 
As I found out I cannot create an extended/logical partition when there are already 4 primary partitions.
Is this true?
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Yes. Basic MBR disks are limited to 4 partitions, one of which can be
an extended partition containing logical drives.

John
 
As I found out I cannot create an extended/logical partition when there are already 4 primary partitions.
Is this true?
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Yes. Basic MBR disks are limited to 4 partitions, one of which can be
an extended partition containing logical drives.

John
 
As I found out I cannot create an extended/logical partition when there are already 4 primary partitions.
Is this true?
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Yes, that's correct. Or to put it the usual way, you can only have
four partitions.

Yes, I'm aware that many people will say they have more than four
"partitions." But they really don't. Although we almost all use the
term "partition" informally that way, some of those "partitions" are
really logical drives within an extended partition.
 
NOTE: FollowUp-To was ignored. The original list was restored to the
Newsgroups header in my reply. Don't shotgun around trying to hit a
larger audience to then yank it away from the groups that YOU decided to
include. If your thread wasn't worthy of discussion in the other groups
then don't cross-post there.

Cindy said:
As I found out I cannot create an extended/logical partition when
there are already 4 primary partitions. Is this true?
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The MBR (master boot record - the first sector of the first track on the
first BIOS-detectable hard disk) contains the partition table. The
partition table only permits up to 4 entries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
 
VanguardLH said:
NOTE: FollowUp-To was ignored. The original list was restored to the
Newsgroups header in my reply. Don't shotgun around trying to hit a
larger audience to then yank it away from the groups that YOU decided to
include. If your thread wasn't worthy of discussion in the other groups
then don't cross-post there.
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Who the **** are you to lecture people on what they should do and not
do. Go and suck your daughter's prick or tell her to suck our cocks!
 
Note: A wannabe troll's attempt to redirect replies into a test group
was obvious and thwarted. The Newsgroups header was restored to its
original list in my reply.
Who the **** are you to lecture people on what they should do and not
do. Go and suck your daughter's prick or tell her to suck our cocks!
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A child speaks with the mindset of an infant. Testy now runs to his
mommy to beg if he can suckle some more. Big bad world scares Testy.
 
VanguardLH said:
NOTE: FollowUp-To was ignored. The original list was restored to the
Newsgroups header in my reply. Don't shotgun around trying to hit a
larger audience to then yank it away from the groups that YOU decided to
include. If your thread wasn't worthy of discussion in the other groups
then don't cross-post there.
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err... at the risk of being blasted,. some newsreader do respect followup up
to tag and ignore original newgroups list.

I'll give the benefit of doubt to the OP not knowing that followup tag is
not necessary in order to watch from just one newsgroup
 
VanguardLH said:
The MBR (master boot record - the first sector of the first track on the
first BIOS-detectable hard disk) contains the partition table. The
partition table only permits up to 4 entries.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_boot_record
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Note that the valid responses assumed you are using the old MBR (master
boot record) scheme for partitioning your hard disks. When I wrote my
prior reply, I knew there was a different partitioning scheme but
couldn't remember its name at the time. I've yet to hit a host where it
was host. There is a new GUID partition table (GPT) scheme; see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

Only some 64-bit versions of Windows can use the GPT scheme. From my
reading of the wiki article, you could have 32 partitions. I wouldn't
play around with GPT because it's not likely your computer has the
BIOS/EFI needed for it, OS support is iffy, and hardware utilities would
probably **** it all up.
 
err... at the risk of being blasted,. some newsreader do respect followup up
to tag and ignore original newgroups list.

I'll give the benefit of doubt to the OP not knowing that followup tag is
not necessary in order to watch from just one newsgroup
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I agree that one should generally give the benefit of the doubt. And
for quite a while I did.

The trouble is that even before this thread, 3 people, including me
(me twice) had called it to her attention that she was doing this, and
she never even gives the courtesy of a reply.

She never replies to anyone, to say if the suggestion worked, or if
she was going to try it, or to thank anyone.

So it seems she either never reads any of the replies she gets (very
unlikely), or she has read the prior 4 complaints in 2 prior threads
about follow-ups and just ignores them. At this stage, I can't give
her the benefit of the doubt anymore; but if she replied or even got
rid of the follow-up line, I'd forget about past problems.

If she doens't know how to get rid of it, if she said what newsreader
she used, and let someone here help her, she could get rid of it.
 
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