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You can have as many logical
partitions on your hard drive as you physically have space for them. With our
large hard drives today, you may have 3-4 logical partitions on each hard
drive with each being less than 8GB in size. In certain cases, you may have a
logical partition that is larger than 8GB in size. We will point this out
later in our presentation.
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Logical partitions are
normally not hidden and are almost always usable. This makes them ideal for
storing your application programs and data files.
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All of the logical
partitions on a hard drive must be located together inside the extended
primary partition. The extended partition is really not a partition that can
hold files like primary or logical partitions can. Instead, the extended
partition is a holder of logical partitions on each hard drive. Logical
partitions are inside the extended partition while primary partitions are
outside the extended partition boundaries.
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Clean as mud? Now you’re all
experts on your hard drive architecture. Let’s start assigning functions to
each of our partitions.
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