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Please Help Me Understand the Partitions on My Hard-Drive
Hi all,
I have attached a screen-shot of my partitions. This is how it is out-of-the-box.
From reading up, I know that a hard-drive can have maximum four primary partitions or three primaries and one extended, and that the extended partition can be sub-divided into several logical partitions.
You can see from my screen-shot that I have one tiny, 200mb primary partition (something to do with the boot loader I think?); the large, C: partition, which is marked as primary; the D: partition which is marked as logical; and an un-named partition for the OEM's back-up software which is also primary.
So does that mean I currently have three, separate primary partitions and one logical partition?
If so, then why is the logical partition not marked as an extended partition, if there is only one?