What Is Basic Disk
Basic disks use partitions (in
late versions of Windows OS like Windows 7 and Windows 8 it is also called
volume) to manage data, and one partition cannot share and
split data with other partitions. On a basic hard disk, we can create 2 styles
of partitions, namely MBR style partition and GPT style partition. To crate MBR
style partitions, we need to initialize the hard disk to MBR (master
boot record). To create GPT style partitions, we should
initialize the disk to GPT (GUID partition table). For more information, please see About
Partition Style (MBR and GPT) part in Ways to Convert
Partition Type, Partition Style, and Disk Type.
On MBR disks, partitions are called primary partition, extended partition, or logical partition while all partitions on GPT disk are called GPT partitions which function like primary partitions. A MBR based basic disk can have either four primary partitions or three primary and one extended partition, but the extended partition can contain an unlimited number of logical drives. And a GPT based hard disk can hold up to 128 partitions.
On MBR disks, partitions are called primary partition, extended partition, or logical partition while all partitions on GPT disk are called GPT partitions which function like primary partitions. A MBR based basic disk can have either four primary partitions or three primary and one extended partition, but the extended partition can contain an unlimited number of logical drives. And a GPT based hard disk can hold up to 128 partitions.
We can add more space to a primary partition or GPT partition by extending it to an adjacent contiguous unallocated space on the same disk or extend a logical drive to free space contained in extended partition, but these partitions should be formatted with NTFS.
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