[Ham-Computers] Maximum Number of Primary Partitions

[Jim Hill]

What do you mean by being visible at a time?
The XOSL has some interesting choices; XP isn't there unless 2000 can be 
used, and I wonder what the XOSL Development operating system is?
73's Jim w6ivw

At 12:08 PM 6/11/2006, you wrote:
>Yes the Extended Partition is counted as a primary partition.
>You can get around the 4 primary partitions with a boot loader.
>But you can only have 4 primary partitions visible at a time.
>One good boot loader is XOSL http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm
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>Jim Hill wrote:
>>I understand a hard drive can have a maximum of four primary partitions. 
>>The extended partition can hold a large number of partitions.  However, 
>>if an extended partition is used, is it counted as one of the four, 
>>leaving a maximum of three "real" primary partitions?
>>73's Jim w6ivw
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