2 primary partitions???

[RustyZip]

Hi...

Well i just recieved my new 80 Gb Hard Drive, and installed it, put on Win XP etc etc, and i looked in XP's Computer Management and it says that i have 2 primary partitions on the one drive - is that normal??? I don't think so...

This is what it says...

.......................|.......................| -----Extended Partition-----|
Primary Partition | Primary Partition | Logical Drive | Logical Drive |
-------C:-------|--------D:-------|------E:-----|------F:-----|

It doesn't report any errors, neither does Partition Magic 7.0...

I thought you were supposed to have 1 primary partition, and the rest was an extended partition containing logical drives???

Or am i a complete buffoon, and this is all normal and ok???

Hope i explained myself properly....
Cheers...

 

[Phantasm66]

Yes, that's just fine.

There are a limit of the number of primary partitions you can have, though.

 

[RustyZip]

Cheers Phantasm66...

Once again, you've come up trumps....:grinthumb

Thats 16 Pints i owe you now...

Just another thing...

When i installed the new drive, BIOS auto-detected it and put in the relevant info, ie: sectors, heads, cylinders etc, and i checked on the Western Digital website, and they had a different configuration.

Should i leave it as it seems to be working fine, or should i manually change it to what WD says???

Thanks again...

 

[RustyZip]

Ooopps...

Should of probably started a new thread...

 

[Phantasm66]

Generally speaking its safe to go with the geometry that the BIOS has detected the HDD as.

Certainly if you can see all of the disk and there isn't a problem.

If you have a choice of geometries, I usually go with LBA mode.

I don't think you will have any major problems.