Hi, Richard.
The semantics here get tricky, don't they? :^{
My understanding is that the extended partition IS a "partition", but not a
"primary partition". It can't be assigned a "drive" letter nor formatted.
But one or more logical drives may be created within the extended partition
and each of them can be assigned a letter and formatted. So AricCougar's
drives F, G and H are actually logical drives within the one extended
partition.
And for even trickier semantics, I've suggested to AricCougar that he may
need to "extend his extended partition" to make room for still another
logical drive inside it.
Methinks all this hard drive terminology just "growed like Topsy" and today
we are faced with multiple ambiguous definitions for "drive" and "boot" and
"extend"...and plenty of other words. :^{
RC
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"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> The Vista setup tries to create a primary partition for itself to install
> upon. You can only have four - you already have four. The extended
> partition IS a primary partition.
>
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> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience
>
>
> "AricCougar" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
> news:1c80e5a053070a93f39ed7b6281e4d65@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote:
>>
>> Partition Issue (Adding Vista x64 to Vista x32 1TB Drive)
>>
>> My 1TB drive is set up as follows:
>>
>> C: Vista x32 IE7 + VMwares 300GB (Primary)
>> D: Vista x32 IE8 50GB (Primary)
>> E: XP IE6 50GB (Primary)
>> F: XP IE7 50GB (Extended)
>> G: XP IE8 50GB (Extended)
>> H: Win7 IE8 50GB (Extended)
>> Unallocated 60GB
>>
>> I need to put a new Vista x64 in 50GB of the remaining Unallocated
>> space but keep getting this error when trying to partition/format it:
>> "Disk Management: You cannot create a volume in this unallocated space
>> because the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions."
>>
>> I understand that we only get 4 primary partitions. How can i add this
>> unallocated space to the Extended Partition, and thereby make a
>> partition within it to load Vista x64 to boot up like all the others?
>>
>> Appreciate any quick ideas. Thanks.
>>
>>
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>> AricCougar