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It has converted back to Basic now as shown by the Basic label at the far left of the drive.
You seem to have lost the small 4gb HP Tools partition at the end of the drive, which may mean that the Recovery partition will also now no longer run from boot. This can be tested later by attempting to queue up HP System Recovery to run, or trying to make your HP Recovery disks if you haven't already done so. If neither will work then you can also delete the HP Recovery partition to reclaim its space, although if time came to run Recovery and you preferred that to getting a Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7 we can possibly help you manually run it from that partition by marking it Active first. These are options to consider.
Without the HP Tools partition you can go ahead an create a fourth Primary partition to install Win8 upon which would be the maximum Primary, or if you intend to add any other partitions create the Win8 partition Logical so that other adjacent Logicals can be added now or later. Partition Wizard Create Partition Video Help
If you have any questions ask them back.
Ok. So right now you want me to create another partition right? Do you want me to do anything else before that. I have to be extra careful now haha. What about the unallocated 105 GB partition that I created a long time ago that you told me to erase. Here is a screenshot of my Disk Management:
I don't know why Recovery was converted to Logical as it won't boot if it's Logical even if it will still boot without the 4gb HP OEM Tools partition which was somehow deleted.
You can use the installed Partition Wizard Home edition which takes 20 seconds to install:
Rightclick Recovery in Partition Wizard to Modify>Set to Primary, click OK.
Rightclick the empty 105gb space to Create a New Logical Partition, label it Windows 8, click OK, Apply both steps.
Boot the Win8 installation DVD to install to its partition.
Ok I did what you told me too so now am I good to go with the installation of Windows 8 on my laptop? Here are two screenshots of my Disk Management and the Partition Wizard.
Yes, good work.
If you want to add another partition now, you'd use PW CD for safest resize of C from the right or D from the left to create another Logical adjacent to the Windows 8 partition. You can have as many Logicals as you want but they must be together.
Did you understand what I wrote about your Recovery partition several posts back? You didn't say.