X-Originating-IP: [203.164.186.155] From: "Joydeep Mitra" To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: RE: Extended partitions (was: FDISK) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 15:05:40 +1100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Nov 2001 04:05:41.0956 (UTC) FILETIME=[47107840:01C17954] Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com If your question is whether you can have "logical drives" of different OSes within your Extended partition, the answer is yes. Nothing will get "confused" as the type of the partition is defined in the table that corresponds to the logical drive. Also you can have more than one primary partition - but there must be only 1 DOS Primary partition. So you can have a NTFS primary partition, a Linux primary partition, a DOS primary partition and an Extended Partition. The Partition Table in the MBR can have up to 4 entries. Any primary partition can be made Active or bootable put Extended partitions cannot. I think thats enough waffling for the moment :) Joydeep >From: "da Silva, Joe" >Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com >To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" >Subject: RE: Extended partitions (was: FDISK) >Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:03:06 +1100 > >Thanks! > >One further question ... Can extended partition chains be a mixture >of partition types, from different OSes? For example, can DR-DOS >(say 6.0) and Linux extended partitions be linked in a chain, or will >this confuse DR-DOS (or similar DOSes)? > >Joe. > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp