Create a 4th primary partition under Windows Server 2008

The disks in Windows Server 2008 are divided into MBR and GPT two partition forms.

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

In theory, MBR disks can be divided into four primary partitions, or three primary partitions and one extended partition.

In practice, however, it is found that a 4th primary partition is created by Disk Management and is automatically converted to an extended partition:

What the hell is going on here? is the theory that supports up to four primary partitions is wrong? In fact, the 4th primary partition can be created by the DiskPart command. The steps are as follows:

1, enter the DiskPart interface, and select the required operation of the disk

2, create a primary partition on this disk: created partition primary

At this point, you can see the newly created primary partition on disk Management:

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

PS: When creating a primary partition, you can also specify the size of the partition. In the DiskPart interface, please view the Help document with command aid create partition.