Re: formatting partition in vista
Do you mean Logical ?
A logical drive is the name given to a volume within an Extended
You can have a total of 4 partitions on each HD.
A way to increase the number of volumes is to make one of those an
Extended partition , inside which, logical drives can be created.
The disadvantages are that only a Primary partition can be marked
Active, and the extended partition itself cannot be made larger or
You will not be able to change it back to a Primary partition non
destructively with Disk Management . You would need a 3rd party app.
Hope it helps