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A PC can support up to 4 primary partitions per drive...
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</blockquote>Interestingly, WinXP has no problem creating 4 primary partitions.<br />
Win7 will refuse to create more than 3 including the 100MB system partition it creates for itself.<br />
But Win7 will have no problems seeing all 4 created by WinXP. Go figure...<br />
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Diogen.</div>