Primary partition or Logical drive ???


  1. Posts : 27
    Win 7 Ultimate
       #1

    Primary partition or Logical drive ???


    Hello friends,

    Sorry for dumb question . I have recently fresh installed Windows 7 on 500 GB SATA disk. After created partition it look like following.
    Please check and advice me that d:\ setup as Primary partition and f:\ displayed as Logical drive. Is it ok ????
    How can it possible if i want to change f:\ as Primary partition.

    Thanks in advance.
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  2. Posts : 2,497
    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
       #2

    It is completely normal for the F: drive to be a logical drive. There is no reason to change it, and a number of reasons not to.

    Logical drives were designed many years ago as a means of having more than 4 partitions. There can be a maximum of 4 primary partitions but no limit on logical drives.
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  3. Posts : 725
    Desk 1: Win 7 Pro x32; Desk 2: Windows 10 x64
       #3

    Primary partitions can be bootable or just contain data. Logical partitions can only contain data (you can't boot into a logical partition). If you don't need (or can't) boot into a partition because it doesn't include a bootable system, there's no reason it should be primary. Leave it Logical
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  4. Posts : 27
    Win 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #4

    thank you LMiller7 and ComputerGeek for reply. :)

    Just last qustion . D:\ in my system is also showing as Primary partition but it does not contain boot and I want to use d: drive for data storage as same as f:\. Is it ok for me ?
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  5. Posts : 2,497
    Windows 7 Pro 64 bit
       #5

    Yes, the D: drive can be used for storage. Primary partitions can be used for any pirpose.
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  6. Posts : 27
    Win 7 Ultimate
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Thank you :)
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  7. Posts : 1,872
    Windows 10 Pro x64, Windows 8.1 Pro x64, Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1,
       #7

    ComputerGeek said:
    Primary partitions can be bootable or just contain data. Logical partitions can only contain data (you can't boot into a logical partition). If you don't need (or can't) boot into a partition because it doesn't include a bootable system, there's no reason it should be primary. Leave it Logical
    That you cannot boot to a logical partition is not entirely correct. The only caveat is that the boot record must be on a primary partition.

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