Asked By
Toby Snyder
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Posted on - 01/21/2012
I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my Lenovo Z460 machine. The total disk space on the laptop is of 500GB. I partitioned the disk and I got 2 primary partitions and 2 logical drives plus an unallocated space of 104GB. I want to create a new partition with this unallocated space, but I am unable to do it, as this message appears:
“Cannot create a new partition, the disk already contain maximum number of partitions”
Would anyone please help me with some advice?
Thank you in advance!
Problem in creating a partition at the disk
This is a weird feature of windows 7 that it doesn't allow you to create more than 4 partitions no matter how many of them are logical or primary partitions. But there is a trick to do so. I will try to help you out by telling a step by step mode so that you can follow it easily. Hope it helps.
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First of all, you will need to convert that hard disk which has 4 partitions (in case if you have more than 1 HDD in your laptop) to dynamic before creating more or extra partitions than these ones.
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In order to do these within Disk Management use the following steps
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Right click on the Disk 0.
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This is basically the grey area that shows the total size your hard disk.
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Select 'Convert to Dynamic Disk'.
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After you are finished with these steps and successfully converted it to a dynamic disk then you will be able to go and create the new simple partition with your 104GB left space.
