What is a simple volume

[erif]

What is a simple volume, compared to other volumes on the hard drive.

I have partitoned my hd, to store different different files, boot, primary, healthy, now I have a simple partition. Also can I put a operating system on the simple partition?

thank you dave

 

[rolli59]

explained better here than I can explain it http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc725610.aspx