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From: "Paul Gimpelj" <pgimpelj@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: partitions
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:00:37 -0400
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To: Phil White <cerise@armory.com>
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thanks,
but is there not a way in the modern bios's to have a second primary
partition table after the first one?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil White" <cerise@armory.com>
To: "Paul Gimpelj" <pgimpelj@sympatico.ca>
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: partitions


> Not primary partitions, but you can have lots of partitions in an extended
> partition.  I think the limit there is 32, giving a theoretical maximum of
> 128.
>
> -Phil/CERisE
>
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 05:57:48PM -0400, Paul Gimpelj wrote:
> > Is it possible to have more than 4 partitions on a 160gb ide drive?
> >
> >
> > thanks.
> >
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