Solved Primary partition or Logical drive ???

[vinmicrosoft]

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.

 

[LMiller7]

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.

 

[ComputerGeek]

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

 

[vinmicrosoft]

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 ?
http://www.sevenforums.com/members/computergeek.html

 

[LMiller7]

Yes, the D: drive can be used for storage. Primary partitions can be used for any pirpose.

 

[vinmicrosoft]

Thank you

 

[pbcopter]

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.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/121536-system-reserved-multi-boot-logical-partitions.html