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Need to dual boot Win 7 and 8 but HDD already has 4 primary partitions
Hi everyone,
I have Windows 7 Pro 64-bit installed on my Acer V3-571G and I've decided that I want to install Windows 8 on a separate partition and setup the system for dual booting. My problem as the title states is that 4 primary partitions already exist on this HDD. The recovery partition and the system reserved are 2 of it. The C drive is where my current OS is installed and the F drive is where I have my movies, files, games etc stored. My plan was to reallocate some of the space of the F drive to a new partition which is where I'll install windows 8. But I can't create a 5th primary drive.
I thought about changing the F drive to a logical drive but I'm not sure whether that will destroy the files stored in it and I don't currently have another medium to backup up my data to. Plus I heard that an OS can't boot from those so now I'm at lost. I've attached a picture of the disk management to help you all. I also have Paragon Hard Disk Manager if that helps.
Thanks.