[CS-FSLUG] Disk partitioning, difference between logical andprimary partitions?

[Tim Young]

Windows Fdisk is the culprit for why you can only designate one primary 
partition.  Windows really does not care if you have one or three primary 
partitions; but windows fdisk can only set up one of them.  Other tools 
(partition Magic, Linux fdisk, etc) will allow you to set up multiple 
primary partitions.  Why that is, I have no idea.

Oh.  And it is physically possible to have multiple bootable partitions. 
It seems to cause more problems than anything (Yes, been there, done that. 
  Linux fdisk allows you to do nearly anything, even if it is quite 
unintelligent.)

	- Tim

David M. wrote:
> 
> Only Windows 2000 and XP can support multiple primary partitions. All other
> windows will only reconize the active primary partition Also you can only
> desinate 1 partition as "active" and it must be on the first hard drive on
> the system.
>