A partition that is used to start an operating system. Primary partitions are partitions that take up one of the four primary partition slots in the disk drive's partition table. You can also use primary partitions that do not contain the operating system.
A volume you create using unallocated space on a basic disk. Microsoft Windows NT and other operating systems can start from a primary partition. You can create up to four primary partitions on a basic disk, or three primary partitions and an extended partition. Primary partitions can be created only on basic disks and cannot be subpartitioned. See also Basic disk, Dynamic volume, Extended partition, Partition.
A partition on a hard drive that is used to boot up the computer. It is the first partition that is created on the hard drive.
a Drive by itself, which means we need not create anything separately inside such a partition
an area of disk storage used to boot operating systems
a partition on a hard drive that can contain only one logical drive (or section)
a partition which has its information stored in the MBR (master boot record)
a portion of a physical disk that functions as though it were a physically separate disk
a section of a hard disk which can contain a Boot Sector , which means that the system will check this section when it is booting (when you turn on the computer) to find the Operating System(s) which are installed in the PC
A hard disk partition that can contain only one logical drive.
The partition where the operating system files are stored. To start your operating system from a hard disk, it must have a primary partition. You must also make the primary partition active.
A partition of a hard drive that can contain an operating system and cannot be subpartitioned. A primary partition drive is the only type of drive that is bootable.
A volume created using unallocated space on a basic disk. Windows 2000 and other operating systems can start from a primary partition. As many as four primary partitions can be created on a basic disk, or three primary partitions and an extended partition. Primary partitions can be created only on basic disks and cannot be subpartitioned. See also basic disk; dynamic volume; extended partition; partition.
A partition that is bootable. You cannot have more than four primary partitions per drive.
Old DOS versions of the FDISK command allows you to create up to four partitions on your hard drive. One of the partitions can be designated a "Primary" partition, the others have to be "Extended." The Primary partition will be the one used to boot up the machine, and should be later formatted so that DOS or some other operating system resides on that partition. A partition must also be designated "Active," otherwise the BIOS (the on-chip program that starts when the computer is turned on) will ignore that partition, even if it is designated "Primary."
Usually boot-able partition of a hard disk drive that contains an operating system.