7 primary partitions on one drive


  1. whs
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    7 primary partitions on one drive


    On another forum I saw this disk management picture showing 7 primaries on one drive. Is that not a bit odd? The man double boots with Linux - maybe that did it.
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  3. StalkeR
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    That's strange...I have also dual boot Ubuntu and Windows 7 but I got only 2 primary partitions.
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  4. SIW2
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    No, it says 5 primaries.

    2 of them are without letters and disk mgmt is unable to see any contents.

    That is normal.
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  6. whs
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    Yeah, but even 5 primaries would violate the NTFS architecture rules. They should all be dynamics.
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  7. pallesenw
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    Vista Disk Management Bug
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  8. SIW2
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    Yes, I am not sure it is a bug.

    It is still present in 7.

    MS have no interest in helping with "non-standard" e.g. Linux volumes.

    As I posted above - it is normal for Vista/7 diskmgmt.
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  10. pallesenw
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    Call it what you want, but you cannot define more than four partitions in the mbr.
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