A single physical hard drive that can be divided into multiple logical drives is called a

• A. Logical Hard Drive
• B. Primary Partition
• C. External Drive
• D. Solid State Drive

Answer: (A)

A single physical hard drive can be divided into separate volumes that the operating system treats as independent drives. Those separate volumes are called logical drives, because they are logical divisions built on top of one physical disk. Each logical drive can have its own filesystem and space, and the OS typically assigns it its own drive letter. This is different from an external drive, which is a separate physical device; a solid state drive refers to the type of storage technology; and a primary partition is one of the partitions on the disk, not the overall logical subdivision itself.