Partitions and Filesystems
There are 3 kinds of partitions Primary Extended Logical And two types of partitioning scheme used now a days MBR (Master Boot Record) GPT (GUID Partition Table) Primary partition, extended partition, and logical partition are much related to MBR disk, because GPT disk only contains primary partition. We can install OS and save our data on any of partitions kind (primary/logical), but the only difference is that some operating systems (namely Windows) are unable to boot from logical partitions. An active partition is based on primary partition. Any one of the 4 primary partitions can be set as active partition. Since there can be 4 primary partitions with 4 different Operating Systems installed, one of the partition that is marked active is used for the initial booting . The active partition contains the boot loader (e.g. ntldr, bootmgr or grub/burg/lilo) to load operating systems from a disk. The logical partition can't be set as active. https://superuser.com/qu...