You are planning on installing multiple bootable operating systems on a single hard drive. What is the maximum number of primary partitions per hard drive?
A) 2
B) 4
C) 8
D) 16
E) 42
The answer: B) 4
A hard drive can have a maximum of four primary partitions.
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