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Disk Management is not Managing

C

Carbo

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W2K Pro, SP2. IBM DeskStar 75GXP 46G hard drive. I presently have four partitions, and about 27 G's of what is referred to as "unallocated space". I'm trying to create another partition in there, but for some unknown reason, (bad karma?), it is not allowing me access to format and partition. What ugly gremlin has popped up here?
 
I think that 4 partitions is the limit for a basic disk. You will need to upgrade your disk to a dynamic disk to have more than 4.

 
You can only have four primary partitions. All four of what you have are probably primary, and you need to have 3 or fewer primaries and an extended with some logicals if you want more than 4.

Either kill a partition and make an extended in the free space, or use Partition Magic to convert 1, 2, or 3 of them into logical partitions (it will make an extended to hold them). THen grow the extended to include the free space and make another partition in there.

Edit: I don't know how dynamic disks affect this, but I'd stay away from using a dynamic disk. 3rd party utilities don't like them.
 
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