Hello, I wanted to create an additional partition to install Linux on and I encountered a problem.
I shrinked one partition (Local Disk (D
) to create 30 GBs of unallocated space, but when I try to create a new partition from it, it says that I already have the maximum number of partitions. I've read something about the limit to 3 primary partitions and one extended but I don't really understand it. Here are my partitions as shown in Disk Management:
Local Disk (D Healthy (Primary Partition)
System (C Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
System Reserved Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
Win 7 32-bit (G Healthy (Logical Drive)
This is how I use them:
- (D is where I put all my programs, installations etc etc.
- (C is where the Windows 7 64-bit OS is installed and it holds programs which can't be installed on (D and my documents.
- (G is where the Windows 7 32-bit OS is installed (because I only have the 32-bit Auto Cad and Solid Works and I had to install a 32-bit version of Windows)
- System Reserved is, I suppose, un-usable.
So, what should I do to create a new partition in order to install Linux?
EDIT: Smileys are supposed to be : ). I should have previewed the post first
I shrinked one partition (Local Disk (D
) to create 30 GBs of unallocated space, but when I try to create a new partition from it, it says that I already have the maximum number of partitions. I've read something about the limit to 3 primary partitions and one extended but I don't really understand it. Here are my partitions as shown in Disk Management:Local Disk (D
Healthy (Primary Partition)System (C
Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)System Reserved Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)
Win 7 32-bit (G
Healthy (Logical Drive)This is how I use them:
- (D
is where I put all my programs, installations etc etc.- (C
is where the Windows 7 64-bit OS is installed and it holds programs which can't be installed on (D and my documents.- (G
is where the Windows 7 32-bit OS is installed (because I only have the 32-bit Auto Cad and Solid Works and I had to install a 32-bit version of Windows)- System Reserved is, I suppose, un-usable.
So, what should I do to create a new partition in order to install Linux?
EDIT: Smileys are supposed to be : ). I should have previewed the post first
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