Partition or Volume - Create New

Brink said:

R3QuI3M,

Your "Recovery" partition is a primary partition. It's your OEM factory recovery partition that is use to be able to reinstall Vista back to how it was when the computer first came out of the box.

A logical partition is a extended partition. The information and links below can give you more detailed information about them though. :)

Wow, thank you for the information. Now I get it.

By the way, my system is Windows 7 Home Premium, not Windows Vista :).

I tried the the diskpart part of the information here, but had no luck in formatting an 80GB SATA HDD with FAT32.

Here is what I I got when I would do the


DISKPART> list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 E DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 50 GB Healthy System
Volume 2 D D NTFS Partition 98 GB Healthy
* Volume 3 RAW Partition 74 GB Healthy

DISKPART> format fs=fat32 quick

0 percent completed

Virtual Disk Service error:
The volume size is too big.

I had that somwhere in my backhead

Many thanks for the reply.

why i still can't see any partition in computer. i already follow all the steps. but, new partition that i created still remain unallocated. how to solve this problem? and my new memory size reduce to 245gb from 490gb before...i still cant see any new partition in computer~~please help me~