Curious result when allocating HDD with an "E" partition.

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Frank Martin

I have WindowsXP.

I have installed a new 500Gb HDD and
restored, via NortonGhost12.0, all the data
from the "C" & "D" partitions of the old
damaged one.

I had to "allocate" the new HDD with space
for the old "E" partition. And I used
"Partition Magic V8" for this.

Strangely, Partition Magic has inserted an
"Extended" partition and this seems to
incorporate the "D" & "E" partitions.

Why did it do this? Can I get rid of the
"Extended" partition? Will this cause
trouble later on?

The list looks like this:

System C: NTFS 50Mb
(*) Extended 426Mb
Data D NTFS 50Mb
LocalDisk E: NTFS 377Mb



Please help, Frank
 
As you suspect, the logical partitions assigned D: and E: are
within the primary extended partition. It's probable that Ghost
created the extended during the restore for "D:". Whether it
did so on its own, or that was how the original drive was set up
is hard to say.

No, it won't cause any problems, and that is a normal configuration
for a Microsoft basic disk. The advantage of using a primary extended,
(as opposed to all simple primarys), is that you can configure more
than 4 partitions.

I would leave it as is is.
 
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