extended partition or primary partition

[biruru]

Hi, I"m a little confuse about primary partition and extended partion and logical drive. what does each of them do. I have 120 gig of unallocated space in windows, and i want to break it to two partition, 60 for my data files, and 60 for my downloads. Which partition to choose.

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[mcwc]

A primary partition is for an OS to install to. Generally, you have 1 primary partition per drive that contains an OS.
An extended partition what contains the logical partitions. The extended partition can be divided into more than 1 logical partition.

Just make 1 60G primary partition. Partition the rest as an extended partition and after that, partition the whole extended partition as logical partition. That's how I would do it.

[biruru]

hey, thanks on clearing it up for me