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Along with boot drive, C Drive, system drive, and primary drive, they always mean the same thing: Boot Drive, the partition with OS in, often called C Drive, which can only be installed on a primary partition.
But data partition can also be the primary partition; when we talk about primary partition, we normally mean the first partition on your disk, the one with the system in. In DOS and all early versions of Microsoft Windows systems, Microsoft required what it called the system partition to be the first partition. Sign in. United States English.
Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Don't use disk tools or utilities to make alterations or changes. Detachable disks are typically expected to migrate between computers or simply to be unavailable to the operating system at times.
Examples of detachable disks are USB disks, which can be easily disconnected by the end-user. Later versions of Windows support GPT partitions on detachable disks. ESP partitions can be replicated for high-availability configurations. Replication must be done manually and the contents must be synchronized manually when using software volumes. Hardware vendors may provide additional solutions for high availability. ESP partitions cannot be mirrored. The ESP should be first on the disk.
The primary benefit to placing the ESP first, is that it is impossible to span volumes when the ESP is logically between the two data partitions that you are attempting to span. The ESP should only include files that are required for booting an operating system, platform tools that run before operating system boot, or files that must be accessed before operating system boot.
For example, files that are required for performing pre-boot system maintenance must be placed in the ESP. Other value-add files or diagnostics used while the operating system is running should not be placed in the ESP. It is important to note that the space in the ESP is a limited system resource; its primary purpose is to provide storage for the files that are needed to boot the operating system.
The preferred option is for system manufacturers to place value-add contents in an OEM-specific partition. Users are warned that deleting the partition can cause the system to fail to operate. Although not architectural, this placement has the same benefits as placing the ESP first. For example, it is also impossible to span volumes when an OEM-specific partition is logically between the two data partitions that you are attempting to span.
Placement in the ESP is an option for applications or files that execute in the pre-operating system boot environment. However, the ESP is architecturally shared space and represents a limited resource. Consuming space in the ESP should be considered carefully.
Files that are not relevant to the pre-operating system boot environment should not be placed in the ESP. The Microsoft Reserved Partition MSR reserves space on each disk drive for subsequent use by operating system software. GPT disks do not allow hidden sectors. Software components that formerly used hidden sectors now allocate portions of the MSR for component-specific partitions. For example, converting a basic disk to a dynamic disk causes the MSR on that disk to be reduced in size and a newly created partition holds the dynamic disk database.
It is particularly important that the MSR be created before other primary data partitions. The MSR must be created when disk-partitioning information is first written to the drive. If the manufacturer partitions the disk, the manufacturer must create the MSR at the same time.
Only one ESP should exist on a system even if multiple operating systems are installed on that system. In a mirrored boot configuration there may actually be two drives with an ESP but they are considered to be a redundant copy of the same ESP. Each data drive must contain at least an MSR and one basic data partition. All basic data partitions on the drive should be contiguous. As noted above, placing an OEM-specific or other unrecognized partition between data partitions imposes limitations on later volume spanning.
Each basic partition can be mounted using a drive letter or mount point, other volume device object, or both. Each basic data partition is represented in Windows as a volume device object, and optionally as a mount point or a drive letter.
The ESP partition isn't hidden, but also doesn't have an assigned drive letter. It will not appear in Explorer unless a drive letter gets assigned to it, but some tools will be able to list it.
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