A technician is setting up new partitions on a 1TB drive for the purpose of running multiple operating systems. Which of the following represents the MAXIMUM number of primary partitions the drive…

An MBR disk stores its partition table in the first 512-byte sector of the disk, and that table has space for exactly 4 partition entries. This hard limit of 4 primary partitions has been a fundamental constraint of the MBR standard since its introduction. To use more partitions, one primary partition must be designated as an extended partition containing logical drives.

8 primary partitions is not a supported limit under the MBR partition scheme; this limit applies only with GPT-based layouts on some systems.

64 primary partitions is not a valid MBR limit; some GPT implementations allow up to 128 partitions but not under MBR.

1024 is not a primary partition limit for any standard disk partitioning scheme and reflects a misunderstanding of the MBR specification.