which to use?

[ali825]

Hi ya guys,

wondering if you guys could help me, i have just got a 1.5tb harddrive and a caddie, am about to format it but which one to choose primary partition or extended partition

ali

 

[Art]

The advantage of extended partitions is that if you want to you can carve it up into smaller partitions again so that it looks like your single partition is actually several. The partition with your OS must be a primary, but if you're chucking this drive in a caddy I'm guessing that's not the case. Far as I remember only one Primary will be visible at a time, so use an extended.

EDIT: Practically rewrote the post with better (?) info.

 

[miniyazz]

Primary is bootable, logical (extended) is not. You can have up to four partitions (primary or logical) on any one drive. Each logical partition can have many (63? 255?) extended partitions 'within' it, that appear in My Computer as normal partitions; they aren't bootable.