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Windows 7 paritions -BASIC MBR
Hi Everyone,
I have HP Pavilion dv6 laptop running in Windows 7 Home premium 64 bit OS. I have 1 TB hard disk with 4 primary partitions already configured by the manufacturer HP. (attached my DISK screenshot details).
I want to install Fedora LINUX, so wanting to create another partition. But my disk is BASIC MBR and it is changing to Dynamic if i try to create another partition. I googled it and found my disk is BASIC MBR which is restricted to have only 4 primary partitions. I looked for some partition tools which can convert Basic MBR to GPT disk and tried that. After converting, though i can login into windows 7, But my HP recovery (F11) during start up is not working and giving error message :BOOT/BCD missing. By trying to recover that, I some how messed up my windows 7 login as well. So again installed everything using Windows 7 discs (Called and ordered from HP support ).
I tried converting disks many times and failed to get it worked (Both Windows 7 and HP recovery) @ start up. I'm very tired installing windows 7 many times. Please suggest me something to install LINUX FEDORA in a separate partition. Basically i want to know if i can create more partitions in BASIC MBR disk.
Please HELP. Thanks in Advance. I'm not very good at English, please bare with me