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Primary Partition VS Extended Partition

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A hard drive can be divided into primary partition and extended partitions. Partitions function as physically separate storage units. This allows you to separate different types of information, such as user data on one partition and applications on another. A hard drive can contain up to four primary partitions, or up to three primary partitions and one extended partition, for a maximum of four partitions.…

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Basic Disk VS Dynamic Disk

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Basic Disks in Windows 2000/XP/Vista: A basic disk uses the normal partition tables found in MS-DOS and Windows. The volumes contained on a basic disk will be basic volumes, such as primary and extended partitions, and logical drives. Basic disks may also contain multi-disk volumes created by Windows NT 4.0 and earlier (volume sets, stripe and mirror sets, and stripe sets with parity).…

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A slave hard drive is not assigned a drive letter in Windows 2000/XP

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Why is my slave drive not assigned a drive letter after either moving it from one system to another system or installing Windows 2000/XP? Problem: A slave drive is recognized in Disk Management, but it is not assigned a drive letter after Windows 2000/XP installation or moving it from one system to another system, with both systems running Windows 2000/XP.…

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Jumper settings for WD 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch EIDE drives

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Two different protocols can be used for jumpering EIDE devices, including disk drives. One is the master-slave relationship. With this protocol, one device is jumpered as master and the other is jumpered as slave. The second protocol is cable select. With this protocol, both devices are jumpered as cable select and their position on the cable dictates which device is the master and which device is the slave.…

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Hard drives greater than 2 TB do not work on existing operating systems

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External USB, eSATA, Firewire, and internal hard drives over 2 TB’s cannot be formatted on Windows 32-bit operating systems using the Master Boot Record (MBR) partitioning scheme. As a result, when you connect drives over 2 TB’s, depending on which interface you are using to connect them to the computer, they may not be recognized at all, they may be only partially recognized, or they may be recognized but you can’t access them.…

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