You can have only up to four primary partitions on a disk drive.
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:22:32 -0500, "nntp.microsoft.com"
<newsgr0ups@xxxxxx> wrote:
Quote:
>The images at the following link were taken before and after the "Shrink"
>step and I've
>also included the error message.
>
>http://www.donireland.com/partition.html
>
>
>"Don I" <newsgr0ups@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:uaOVmXjUIHA.3940@xxxxxx Quote:
>> I succeeded at creating a new 2GB volume (formated as drive F) using
>> the steps listed in the article provided in this
>> article--http://lifehacker.com/photogallery/vistarepartition/.
>>
>> But when I try to create a 10GB volume, it tells me that I don't have
>> enough drive space--even though there's more than 100gb free.
>>
>> Before doing anything, the C drive shows capacity 136 gb, 100gb free. I
>> successfully used the shrink uption to get 10gb of unallocated space.
>> Then I attempted to create the volume and assign a drive letter to it.
>> But it tells me that there's not enough free space.
>>