Types of partitions
Two types of partitions are as following:
- Primary partition
It is a type of partition that can be used as system partition. The
system partition contains the hardware specific files required to load windows.
A primary partition can be created to occupy the entire hard disk
or a portion of it.
Any hard disk can have a many partitions. All partition can be
primary partitions. Each partition must be formatted after partitioning.
- Extended partition
It is a type of partition that can be further divided into sub
partitions. The sub partitions are known as
logical partitions. it is done to use multiple operating systems. A hard
disk can have only one extended partition It can also be formatted to create
drives.
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