Re: Confused About 4 Partition Limit?

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jim evans <jimsTAKEOUTnews2 (AT) houston (DOT) rr.com> wrote:

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I have three "real" primary partitions on my C: drive. But, there's
also some free space. This free space is also identified as a
"primary" partition, when in fact it's not a partition at all -- it's
simply unused space.

Just a quirk of whatever is displaying the partitions.

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Must this free space be counted toward the four primary partition limit?

Nope, the limit is imposed by the number of entrys available in the partition table.
So you can certainly have 4 real partitions and some free space as well if you want.

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jim evans <jimsTAKEOUTnews2 (AT) houston (DOT) rr.com> wrote

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Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote
jim evans <jimsTAKEOUTnews2 (AT) houston (DOT) rr.com> wrote

I have three "real" primary partitions on my C: drive.
But, there's also some free space. This free space is
also identified as a "primary" partition, when in fact it's
not a partition at all -- it's simply unused space.

Just a quirk of whatever is displaying the partitions.

Thanks.

I've looked at them in two different programs
and both identify the unused space as primary.

fdisk doesnt.

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Is there a utility that lets me view what you call the "partition table?"

The old dos norton's diskedit will, and allows you to edit it too.

Plenty should turn up using google and "partition table"

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