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Thanks for replying Geekgirl,

So in my instance i want 8 partitions, with a 80Ghard drive.=10G a piece.

I would create 3 10G primary dos, and 1 extended and then I candidvide the extended in to the remainder?

Larry

That sounds correct but...

If I'm not mistaken and I'm sure someone will correct me if Im wrong, normally you don't get the full 80Gig out of the drive. Check to see how much is available to use and do your dividing from there.

What might be easier, is create a primary partition of 10 gig and set it as primary. Then take the rest of the space and create an extended partition. Then break the extended partition into logical drives.

You would do it the other way, if you were to have three different operationg systems. that way, you could selectivly make one partition active to boot to it.

This can turn into a real mess if you hook up a second hard drive. C remains C but D becomes E because the second drive becomes D. Then, any program installed to the original d drive will fail to run because its not on the new d drive.

I have an 80 gig hard drive myself, and as Geekgirl said you won’t get the full 80 gigs.
Mine has 76.2 gigs of usable space, divided into 3 partitions, 20 gigs, 20 gigs and 36.2 gigs.

A megabyte is two to the 20th power, or 1,048,576 bytes.

The people that sell the hard drives round it to 1,000,000 It makes a drive look bigger.

So it depends on whether your in the base 10 or base 2 number system. Thats where the shrinkage is. 160 gig drive is about 152 gig as far as fdisk is concerned (educated guess, I didn't use a calculator)