Which of the following is the MAXIMUM number of primary partitions that can be created on a hard drive with FAT32?

The correct answer is B. 4. The MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme, which FAT32 drives traditionally use, supports a maximum of 4 primary partitions per disk. This is a hard limit of the MBR partition table structure, which reserves exactly 4 entries for partition records. To have more…

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The MBR (Master Boot Record) partitioning scheme, which FAT32 drives traditionally use, supports a maximum of 4 primary partitions per disk. This is a hard limit of the MBR partition table structure, which reserves exactly 4 entries for partition records. To have more partitions, one of the 4 slots must be used as an extended partition containing logical drives. GPT disks do not share this limitation.

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