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  Asked: May 7 2008   6:47 PM GMT
  Asked by: Srik


Hardware question regarding Hard Disk..


Hard drives, Storage, Partitions, Partitioning

Why we can create only a maximum of 4 primary partitions in a Hard Disk?

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See: http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/structPartitions-c.html ---- The limitation of four primary partitions is one that is imposed on the system by the way that the master boot record is structured.

See this also: http://en.kioskea.net/repar/partitio.php3
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