Create a 4th primary partition image under Windows Server 2008 Step

Windows Server 2008 disks are divided into MBR and GPT partitions.

This article only discusses MBR (the number of primary partitions for GPT, not a problem at all …).

In theory, an MBR disk can be divided into up to four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and one extended partition.

However, in practice, it is found that when the fourth primary partition is created by disk management, the system automatically converts it to an extended partition:

What is going on? Is it up to four? The theory of the primary partition is wrong? Actually, the fourth primary partition can be created by the diskpart command. The steps are as follows:

1. Enter the diskpart interface and select the disk to be operated

2. Create a primary partition on the disk: create partition primary

In the disk management, you can see the newly created primary partition:

Then assign it to the drive letter, format it, you can use it normally:

PS: Creating the primary partition At the same time, you can also specify the size of the partition. Specifically, in the diskpart interface, use the help create partition command to view the help documentation.