Question Is it normal to have your OS Main Drive to have "Basic Data Partition" instead of "Primary Partition?"

[stewuie]

I'm just wondering if this is completely fine and i am really nervous about it.

My hard drive also has "Basic Data Partition" and so as My SSD also the thing that stores my Windows OS.

My drives have no issues im just wondering if i <Mod Edit> something up.

PC is still working and still intact.

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[Lafong]

Do any of your partitions show any of these terms:

boot

crash dump

page file

My C partition shows all 3 of those terms AND also "basic data partition".

 

[stewuie]

Do any of your partitions show any of these terms:

boot

crash dump

page file

My C partition shows all 3 of those terms AND also "basic data partition".

Yes, is it completely normal?

 

[Lafong]

Post a COMPLETE list of all the terms shown for your C partition.

 

[Lafong]

I think that's OK.

I thought you were looking at Disk Management.

Look at that, for the C partition.

You should see some terms inside parentheses.

Mine says: (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Basic Data Partition)

What does yours say inside the ()?

As far as I know, "Primary Partition" is not seen on UEFI systems; only on MBR systems

 

[stewuie]

Disk 0
Basic
223.56 GB
Online
-------------
100 MB
Healthy (EFI System Partition)
-------------
Local Disk (C
222.94 GB NTFS
Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Basic Data Partition)
--------------
522 MB
Healthy (Recovery Partition)

 

[stewuie]

I think that's OK.

I thought you were looking at Disk Management.

Look at that, for the C partition.

You should see some terms inside parentheses.

Mine says: (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Basic Data Partition)

What does yours say inside the ()?

As far as I know, "Primary Partition" is not seen on UEFI systems; only on MBR systems

good to know. i am very pleased to know that information.

 

[hotaru.hino]

A "Basic Data Partition" is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_basic_data_partition

It only applies to GPT (as opposed to MBR) formatted drives. All a Basic Data Partition means is all the data will reside on the storage device. This is opposed to other data store mechanisms that basically combines multiple storage devices such that it's seen as a single unit to the user.