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More info?)
ScratchMonkey wrote:
> "Miracle Smith" <GetLost@yourexpense.com> wrote in news:430ac024_2
> @news6.uncensored-news.com:
>
>> "Basic disk storage supports partition-oriented disks. A basic
>> disk is a physical disk that contains primary partitions, extended
>> partitions, or logical drives. Partitions and logical drives on basic
>> disks are also known as basic volumes. You can create up to four
>> primary partitions, or three primary partitions and one extended
>> partition, that contain logical drives."
>>
>> So yes, I want to create a second "Primary" partion on that
>> drive.
>
> I was hoping Wikipedia would include a bit more history, but they do
> have some info:
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partition
>
> Way back when HD's first appeared, MS DOS wasn't the only game in
> town, and there were several alternatives. Booting multiple OS's was
> normal. So they came up with the idea of allowing up to 4 OS's to
> coexist on the same disk. The one that boots is the one marked
> "active". All other physical partitions remain invisible to the
> active one.
>
> To allow two OS's to share data, the rule arose to allow all OS's to
> "see" the logical drives in an extended partition, but only their own
> physical partition. So you would create/assign one physical partition
> for each OS, and then an extended partition to hold the rest of the
> space.
>
> Much later, around the time Windows came along (might be Win95, can't
> remember if 3.1 could do it), the restriction of seeing only one
> physical partition was lifted, and an OS could "unhide" the other
> physical partitions. Until that point, it was rarely useful to have
> more than one physical partition in a single-OS system, because the
> extra physical partitions would be invisible.
>
> Another issue with partitions is the order the letters are assigned
> in a multi-drive system. Historically, the single active physical
> partition on each physical drive gets lettered first, so with two
> drives, the first physical partition on the 2nd drive becomes "D",
> and the first logical drive on the first physical drive gets the next
> letter after all physical partitions are assigned (with 2 drives,
> this would be "E"). My practice was to never use physical partitions
> on 2nd and subsequent drives, to keep the letters sane. (Unix doesn't
> use drive letters, so this isn't an issue with Unix-like OS's.)
This is good stuff! <saved to folder>
I like assigning drive letters that *I* will later associate with their
contents. The second partition in the large drive I named "M:", because
it will hold all of "My" stuff to burn to a CD when filled. It's just over
60 gigs, so it will hold a lot of stuff!
I am bugged by the fact that Windows is NOT in "C:", but rather "E:".
But I just thought of a cool way to keep it straight in my mind- I will
store all my "Craft" patterns in there. It's a smaller 40 gig drive. And I
can always create other partitions if I need to.
(OMG I can't believe this is coming from *me*.) So here's my setup:
80 GB drive: 15 gigs = "E:"
65 gigs = "M:"
40 GB drive: 40 gigs = "C:"
Add in a little "2", and you'll get it...................ROFL
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{{{{{HUGZ!}}}}}
>^,,^< Miracle
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