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What is the maximum number of partitions that can be made on a hard drive?
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What is the maximum number of partitions we can make on hard disk in Windows? If it is limited to some particular number, why can we assign all the letters C through Z to drives? If it is a special case, what's that?
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On the legacy "MBR" partitioning scheme, you can have 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary partitions and one extended partition containing any number of logical partitions. While you can assign a drive letter to a partition, you can also map it as a …
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