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On a single hard drive, you have created three primary partitions. You have also created an extended partition that contains two logical partitions. Which of these statements would be true of the logical partitions?

A) There can only be four logical partitions per physical disk

B) The logical partitions cannot be partitioned with the NTFS file system

C) Operating systems loaded onto logical partitions are not bootable

D) One of the logical partitions can be marked as active

E) The logical partition has an irrational belief in itself


The answer: C) Operating systems loaded onto logical partitions are not bootable

Although extended partitions can allow for more than four partitions per hard drive, the logical partitions inside of an extended partition are not bootable.

Want to know more? Watch “Managing Disks.”

When you add a new hard drive into a Windows system, you’re faced with a large number of partition options, disk status information, and drive options. In this video, you’ll learn the differences in partition types, how to add or modify Windows disks, and how to use the powerful Windows Disk Management utility.