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[ILUG] dying hard disc - upgrade questions?

[ILUG] dying hard disc - upgrade questions?

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Wed May 26 20:56:07 IST 2004


On Wednesday 26 May 2004 17:15, Liam Bedford wrote:

> > The OP said you _should_ put logical partitions in hda4, and I agree.
> >
> > Disk Druid didn't used to allow you to add a further primary partition
> > once you had added an extended partition -
> > I don't know if that is still the case.
> > I iaagine your method would cause chaos if you deleted a logical
> > partition.
>
> the linked list is only inside the extended partition. The other
> partitions are defined by the master allocation table or partition table
> or what have you.

As a matter of interest, how are the logical partitions numbered
if you make hda3 an extended paritition?
What if you make hda3 _and_ hda4 extended partitions?
(I can't do this, but you seemed to suggest it is possible.)



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