June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1488 pages
45h 53m
English
Content preview from Microsoft® Windows Server™ 2003 Inside Out
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Managing MBR Disk Partitions on Basic Disks
A disk using the MBR partition style can have up to four primary partitions and up to one extended partition. This allows you to configure MBR disks in one of two ways: using one to four primary partitions or using one to three primary partitions and one extended partition. After you partition a disk, you format the partitions to assign drive letters or mount points.
Inside Out: Drive letter assignment is initiated during installation
The drive letters that are available depend on how a system is configured. The initial drive letters used by a computer are assigned during installation of the operating system. ...