15.01.2024 Views

CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

  • No tags were found...

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

Figure 9-9 An extended partition containing multiple logical drives

A logical drive works like a primary partition—it usually gets a drive

letter such as D: or E:—but you can’t boot an OS from it. You format it just

like you would a primary partition. The only difference is that each logical

drive is actually in the same extended partition.

EXAM TIP Extended partitions do not receive drive letters, but the logical

drives within an extended partition do.

Dynamic Disks

With the introduction of Windows 2000, Microsoft defined a type of

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!