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Old 03-20-2008, 09:40 AM
Chris Game
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Re: More of 4 partition with windows vista home premium

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:12:55 -0400, Bob Campbell wrote:
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> "Caos" <Caos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:03A34736-44D5-4E0D-BC24-E531D126BA7C@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> I have windows home premium and I need do more of 4 partition
>> with my hard disck.[/color]
>
> You can only have 4 partitions, but one of these can be an
> Extended partition (instead of Primary). The Extended partition
> can contain as many logical drives as you want, each assigned a
> drive letter and appearing as a "partition" of the drive.[/color]

Unfortunately the disk manager in Vista won't tell you this, or
indeed offer you the option of creating an extended/logical
partitions when you only have the one which the system is sitting on
plus ooodles of free space.

Use G-parted or similar on a Linux live CD.

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Old 03-20-2008, 09:40 AM