{"id":15,"date":"2004-07-30T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-30T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/what-terminology-is-used-in-bootit-ng-that-i-might-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T23:18:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:18:37","slug":"what-terminology-is-used-in-bootit-ng-that-i-might-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/what-terminology-is-used-in-bootit-ng-that-i-might-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"What Terminology is Used in BootIt NG that I Might Need to Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><font color=\"#005858\">Partition<\/font><\/strong> -&nbsp;Usually used to refer to to <em>primary partitions<\/em>, but in some cases can mean both a primary partition and a volume.<\/p>\r\n  <p><font color=\"#005858\"><strong>Extended partition<\/strong> <\/font>- A&nbsp;special type of primary partition. Extended partitions can be used as containers for logical partitions (see below).<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong><font color=\"#005858\">Volumes<\/font><\/strong> -&nbsp;The logical partitions inside an extended partition (what Microsoft refers to as <em>logical drives<\/em>).<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong><font color=\"#005858\">Formatting<\/font><\/strong> - The process of preparing a storage medium for use by a particular file system.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Partition &#8211;&nbsp;Usually used to refer to to primary partitions, but in some cases can mean both a primary partition and a volume. Extended partition &#8211; A&nbsp;special type of primary partition. Extended partitions can be used as containers for logical partitions (see below). Volumes &#8211;&nbsp;The logical partitions inside an extended partition (what Microsoft refers to as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1771],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2118],"class_list":["post-15","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-faq-bing-archive","lsvr_kba_tag-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6072,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/15\/revisions\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}