What is a Partition

A Hard Disk can be one single partition or a maximum of two partitions,

These are called:

Primary partition for one single partition

or

Extended partition for the second partition

(A Primary partition must exist to be able to create an Extended partition

Logical drives are drive letters created within the Extended partition

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