The best write up I have ever seen on partitioning came with Partition Magic
5 (I believe it was). Everything you always wanted to know (or maybe didn't)
about drives and partitioning. The theory has not changed in many years. You
can still have only 4 primary partitions and yes, an extended partition
reduces that by one. An extended partition is a special type of primary
partition that allows logical partitions to be created within.
If you would like Mr. White, I will email you a .pdf of the manual. It is
loaded with tons of useful information that is still relevant today.
--
Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience
"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e1qIMH1%23JHA.3320@xxxxxx
Quote:
> 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
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@xxxxxx
> Microsoft Windows MVP
> Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8064.0206) in Win7 Ultimate x64 RC 7100
>
> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:Oe0ruF74JHA.1416@xxxxxx 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.
>>
>> --
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> AricCougar
>