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== Creating Partitions on an MBR Basic Disk ==

As described in [[Adding New GPT and MBR Disks to Windows Server 2008 Systems]] a basic disk initialized with the MBR partition style can support either four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition. The extended partition can, in turn, be divided into multiple logical drives.

Click the ''Next'' button to proceed to the ''Format Partition'' screen. On this screen a number of choices are available in terms of the type of file system to be created on the new volume. These options consist of FAT, FAT16 and NTFS. FAT volumes have a maximum size of 4GB and a file size limit of 2GB. FAT32 file systems have a maximum volume size of 32GB with a file size limit of 4GB. NTFS volumes can be up to 2TB on an MBR disk and 18 Exabytes (EB) on GPT disks. NTFS is recommended unless FAT or FAT32 is specifically required. FAT and FAT32, for example, do not support many of the file system security or compression features inherent in NTFS.

[[Image:windows_server_2008_volume_format.jpg|Setting the file system format options in Windows Server 2008]]