"Geoff Lane" wrote in message
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Harry Broomhall wrote:
No - it is perfectly possible to have an extended partiton on a
drive without a primary partition. Hence my previous post.
AIUI a HD can have four primary partitions and an extended partition
counts as a primary. I appreciate it is not active as it merely contains
the logical partitions within.
Anyway, as mentioned all my HDs have a proper primary partition.
Geoff Lane
A review and why I didn't buy one..
http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index....;pid;6452;pt;1