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  1. Brink
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    Yes you can. That is how many you can do on each single separate hard drive. :)
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  3. adicontakt
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    10x a lot btw it is a great forum
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  4. Brink
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    You're most welcome Adi Adi. :)
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  5. bang zen
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    I've made partition on my disk for 80GB from 500Gb.

    Then i want to shrink again my disk for 20GB.

    Succesful for the shrink,but when i want to format the partition,i failed and got mssg

    "You cant create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions".

    I have 3 primary , 1 unallocated, 1 logical drive in 1 disk...

    How to solve this problem???

    Thnx...

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  7. Brink
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    Hello Bang Zen, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    Could you post a screenshot of your Disk Management? This will help determine what may be happening with this. :)
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  8. bang zen
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    This for status my disk



    And this for failure to format the disk

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  9. Brink
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    Bang Zen,

    The reason is that you have reached your 3 primary partitions limit, and since you already have a logical partition created to the right of the unallocated space, you cannot shrink a primary to the left of the logical partition to create another partition using Disk Management.

    You would need to shrink a logical partition (blue one) to be able to have the 20 GB partition instead, or use a 3rd party program like the free Partition Manager Home Edition instead.
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  11. bang zen
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    Thank u so much brink...

    Now i've downloaded the program...

    So what next step i have to do???

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  12. Brink
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    You would select the unallocated space (main window), then select Create Partition (left pane), then follow the rest of the onscreen instructions to finish creating the partition. :)
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  13. richyrich
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    Hi, just discovered this forum. Thankyou for the tutorial. I have a couple of questions to do with the partitions. I have just bought a shop bought pc with windows 7 64 bit and am looking to partition the drive and dual boot with xp 32bit in order to run a couple of older programs that will not run in windows 7.
    Everything made sense until I checked the disk management and it looks like I already have 3 primary partitions. I understand that this is the max, however I can run 1 extended with logical partitions. My questions are

    can I shrink and partition C with a logical drive and put xp on the logical drive(does it matter that C is in the middle?)?

    Will this work ok with the dual booting and are there any downside to it being on a logical drive?

    Is there another/better solution?

    I have attached a screen shot of the disk manager

    thanks again
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