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On which physical drive is this logical drive?
The easiest and most obvious way would be to use Computer Management.
Computer Management is located through Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management
From here, find ...
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On which physical drive is this logical drive?
WMIC answer:
C:\> wmic diskdrive get index,caption
Caption Index
SAMSUNG HD103SJ 1
C300-CTFDDAC128MAG 2
Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB 0
C:\> wmic partition ...
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On which physical drive is this logical drive?
You can use PowerShell!
To get the info on a drive from a single partition's drive letter:
Get-Disk (Get-Partition -DriveLetter 'C').DiskNumber
It produces output like this:
Number Friendly Name ...
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On which physical drive is this logical drive?
On Windows you can use the Disk Management console.
On Windows 10 you can just right click the start button and in the list should be "Disk Management".
From there you will have a graphical view of ...
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Does it STILL make sense to convert primary to logical drives even on a UEFI, so not an MBR system/PC/laptop
If you are using UEFI, then your disk is in
GPT
format.
Under GPT you can have up to 128 partitions and do not need to distinguish between "primary" and "extended" partitions.
So the answer is : No ...
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How do I mount a multi-disk Windows NTFS RAID/logical drive on Linux?
Note: I'm writing this answer after the OP got help via comments, trials and errors. Having other users in mind, I'm making the answer broader and little more generic.
If these two disks worked ...
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What is the difference between properties `Name`, `Caption` and `DeviceID` (when executing `wmic LogicalDisk`)?
==> wmic logicaldisk get Caption, DeviceID, Name
Caption DeviceID Name
C: C: C:
D: D: D:
E: E: E:
==>
Pay your attention to each property Qualifiers in ...
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Logical drives in Basic disc
The answer is that he's flat-out wrong, and by several orders of magnitude.
The data structure involved (for logical partitions inside an extended partition) is a linked list, meaning that each ...
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"Assign Drive Letter" v.s. "Assign Path", any differences besides the obvious?
The situation can be even more interesting, if you choose. Not only can you choose to use a drive letter, or a mount point, you can also choose both. You can mount the partition, or even a CD/DVD, as ...
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On which physical drive is this logical drive?
Control panel -> Administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management
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How does one change the UUID of a Volume on Mac OS X 10.6?
You can simply change UUID by partition format/erase.
1) Format disk to Mac OS Extended using built-in Disk Utility
2) If you need windows partition, format disk to exFAT after you have done first ...
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Logical drives in Basic disc
Why do you believe it should be 23+3? Because we have 26 letters in the alphabet?
The reason is because of how the old MBR disk layouts could see the partitions. Originally, it would only allow 4 ...
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convert logical to primary getting "the operation could not be completed there is no empty slot in mbr"
You're barking up the wrong tree -- you don't need to create a new primary partition. What you need to do is to move the free space out of your extended partition in such a way that you can expand ...
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Not able to recover logical partition using TestDisk
Gladly the issue has been resolved with full data recovery.
I deleted that whole Win10 logical partition (Caution: not the extended partition) and then the Write was successful and asked to reboot. My ...
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Is it possible to boot from a logical file structure of a linux system
Are you sure you need to "boot" off of this directory?
(Where would your boot loader come from, etc)
Have you considered using the chroot command?
You can use it to run a "command" shell (like bash) ...
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Move files by default (instead of copy) between volumes
To change the default drag-and-drop behavior for files to "Always Move":
Open the Registry Editor.
Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT and find the * folder.
Right-click the folder and select "New&...
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