With £70 of my christmas money i decided to go out and get a 1tb hdd as ive needed one for a while for various reasons... I decided i want to install several more Operating Systems (that i didnt have space for on my original hdd) and so created 3 more partitions (a recovery - kaspersky bootable, one for vista, and one for XP)... I decided to install web and home server as well but when i came to create new partitions all four slots are full. I decided to look into dynamic drives but found out that they arent completely read/writable with most OS (eg. Vista Home) and this is compulsory for me... I bought 1tb so i could fit all my OS on to it... but now ive found out i cant make more partitions... Is there anything i could do to make it compatible with xp, vista, web/home server and Apple Mac? (i also need other partitions but not for OS) cheers
You can make as many partitions as you want (or as available drive letters), you can have only one primary partition at one time. Then you can make an extended partition. This extended partition can be subdivided into as many logical partitions as you need. Most operating systems will run from a logical partition with no problem. "For our purposes in the computer world or partition organization a hard drive has two parts. 1) Primary partitions 2) Extended partition If you wanted only a C: drive on your hard drive you would use FDISK to create a primary dos partition that was the entire available drive size, set it active and format it. You would then be done and ready to install the OS. But the purpose here is to create a sense of organization by creating multiple partitions. You do this by creating a primary dos partition first that was the size you wanted your C drive to be in MB. Then create an extended dos partition for the remaining maximum allowable space. The extended dos partition is not of any use to you until you create logical dos drives within the extended dos partition. Think of the extended dos partition as a bed for the new logical dos drives or partitions you want; D, E, F, G, etc. Simply enter the size of the logical dos drives one at a time until you use up the remaining allowable space that is the extended DOS partition as you had planned on paper before even getting to this stage."
ok i can use dos and cmd prompt quite well with diskpart and the likes but is there any way i can do the extended partition/logical drive things with Paragon Partition Manager 8.5 Pro? ill have a look but my pc died converting the primary partition to ntfs from fat32 so i am running an undelete on the files i need... its going to take 19hrs (been going 12 needs 7 more) just to scan... surely this cant be right? any way i can speed this up? Im using Active@ Undelete 7 cheers
