Primary or extended partition for new "slave" hard drive

Discussion in 'Software' started by pompste, Oct 5, 2004.

  1. pompste

    pompste Private First Class

    Hi,when i need to partition my new slave hard drive,i`m not sure to use a"primary" or "extended" partition.
    I basically want to "ghost' all info from my master hard drive to the new slave.I have a new HP pavillion with windows xp.
    I hope this new computer picks up the correct bios info for the new slave automatically.
    Thanks for any information
     
    pompste, Oct 5, 2004
    #1
  2. snakefoot

    snakefoot Sergeant Major

    If you want to boot from the new HDD, then you need to make a primary partition.
    If you merely want to use the new HDD as storage, then extended partition with logical partitions is probably a good choice.
     
    snakefoot, Oct 6, 2004
    #2

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