unallocated space not converting to new volume

fritzpat · Oct 5, 2013

hello everyone
I wanted to create a second partition on my hard drive, for which I shrunk my C drive and allocated 30GB to it. I already have a partitioned 40 GB drive. Now when I am trying to convert this 30 GB unallocated space to a new partitioned volume then after finishing the wizard a message prompts
"you cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains maximum number of partitions"
Please help me with this

USAFRet · Oct 5, 2013

How many partitions in total are there currently?

fritzpat · Oct 5, 2013

well my disk management reads the following:
Recovery 9GB, OS(C) 155GB, unallocated 29.3GB, new volume 39 GB
so I guess only 3 partitions currently

RealBeast · Oct 5, 2013

fritzpat :

How about the system reserved partition? On another drive?

AFAIK the SRP counts towards the 4 primary partition limit. You could use three primary and one extended that will allow many logical drives on it.

fritzpat · Oct 5, 2013

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How about the system reserved partition? On another drive?

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How do I check that?

RealBeast · Oct 5, 2013

Look in disk management for a 100MB partition that will say System Reserved.

fritzpat · Oct 6, 2013

RealBeast :

ok there is a 125MB partition, so there are 4 partitions in total.
can't I further create another partition

RealBeast · Oct 6, 2013

Perhaps you can extend the New Volume into the unallocated space and rather than primary make it an extended volume, which can have as many logical partitions as you want.

fritzpat · Oct 6, 2013

Extend volume option for new volume is greyed out

RealBeast · Oct 6, 2013

You would need to delete the New Volume and make that and the current unallocated space into an extended partition. This should work if the two are adjacent to one another.

fritzpat · Oct 6, 2013

But I don't want to delete this new volume as I have reserved it for some other data. I simply want to convert the 30 GB unallocated space to a new partitioned volume

RealBeast · Oct 6, 2013

fritzpat :

Sure, but you cannot do that, so you can either use the unallocated space or not. Your choice.

mushthaqueali · Nov 1, 2013

Hi fritzpat,

You can create partition by using any third party partition application like Acronis Disk Director Suite.

RealBeast · Nov 1, 2013

mushthaqueali :

Sorry but wrong, it is a limitation that you will not get around. Here is the quote from Acronis Disk Director FAQs: How many partitions can I have on my hard disk?

"Physical hard disks can contain up to four primary partitions or up to three primary partitions and infinite logical partitions. The number of primary partitions on a disk is limited because the partition table located on the hard disk contains only four records. Extended partitioning supports additional divisions of the drive into logical partitions. The number of logical partitions on a disk drive is unlimited."

Since the SRP is a primary partition, you can have either three other primary or two more primary and one extended with many logical partitions.

mushthaqueali · Nov 1, 2013

I agree that. The Acronics Disk Director Suite will add the new partition to Extended partition and create a new logical partition. I was able to create new partition when I faced the same situation.

RealBeast · Nov 1, 2013

mushthaqueali :

Unfortunately, the OP does not want to use an extended partition (and as many logical as needed) for some reason and wants 5 primary partitions, which is not possible.

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