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Date:	Sun, 21 Apr 2002 12:29:01 PST7
From:	"Michal Necasek" <MichalN@prodigy.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	< "scoug-general@scoug.com" > scoug-general@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Re: Partition Magic and Related questions

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On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 10:17:15 PST7, Dallas E. Legan wrote:

>last I heard you could only have 4 primary partitions or
>3 primaries and 1 extended.)
>
More accurately, there is space for 4 partition records
in the MBR. There can certainly be no more than 4 primary
partitions per disk. There could theoretically be 4 extended
partitions in the MBR but it's somewhat pointless because
a single extended partition can contain practically
unlimited number of logical drives.

OS/2 2.x (and Linux?) offer the highest flexibility,
being able to boot from primary or extended partitions
located on any disk.

DOS likes to be on a primary partition on first disk
(ie. C:) and the same goes for Win9x. NT is somewhat
less restrictive but its boot loader still may need to
live on primary partition - but AFAIK that can be
the DOS 7 partition.

Michal

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