what is difference between primary and logical partition??

Question

if i want to split my hard drive into 2 partitions with one 10gb for windows XP and the rest 40GB for data (music, videos, games etc.) what partition type should i use for the data?? primary or logical? what is the difference between the two?? i recently used partition magic 8 to split the drives, however after that there was an error about some C$/s... and told me to do a chkdsk /f, which i did, and now its alright, however i find the laptop a bit slow now, espcially when right clicking on a folder takes 2 seconds. should i reformat my laptop? i only just got it 2 days ago. do most people reformat their dells when they recieve it or leave it as what dell has already install?? ----------------------------- Inspiron 86001.6GHz Pentium M60GB 7200rpm HDD128mb Radeon Turbo Pro512mb RAM

johnallg · Answer

I would start over and this time boot to the XP cd and let it handle the partitioning - remove all and create your 2 desired ones at the sizes you want.  Leaving off the AOL, Earthlink, and other add ons helps streamline and saves hdd space.

SAMUEL_LEO · Answer

primary partition is bootable, and logical partition isn't, every logical partition eat up 31.5K(1 track) disk space. You can create 4 primary partition w/o logical partition, or 3 primary w/ unlimited logical partition. Message Edited by SAMUEL_LEO on 01-23-2004 08:11 AM

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