trying to dual boot windows 7 on my windows 8 laptop

I'm trying to dual boot windows 7 on my windows 8 laptop, and I am able to install windows 7 using the UEFI usb I created, but before I install it on the allocated space partition I created, it gives me a warning that my partitions are not in the recommended order. My partitions are currently set up as: 300 MB EFI System partition, 900 MB Recovery partition, C: Windows 8 NTFS (860 GB), D: Unallocated space for win 7 (NTFS, 50GB), and 20 GB Recovery partition. How should I have my partitions set up in this case? I am also planning to create another partition in order to install Ubuntu after I install Windows 7

For Ref:
UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) - Install Windows 7 with - Windows 7 Help Forums

But how do I delete the OEM recovery partition? It won't let me through disk management.

As you have already made a partition of 50gb for Windows 7 & the partition did not convert to Dynamic, no need to delete the Recovery Partition.

Theog, I was just wondering why you suggest deleting the Recovery Partition on a Windows 8 system. I see the note about the drive being converted to Dynamic drive, but I do not see how that would happen on a GPT configured drive, which is not limited to 4 partitions.

I guess I will be doing some testing on my Non-OEM Windows 8 system on which I added a recovery partition.

And for the OP, please make sure you have backups/system Images/recovery media, before you start messing around. It is so much easier to re-image a drive as opposed to other, possibly no longer available, options.

Saltgrass said:

Theog, I was just wondering why you suggest deleting the Recovery Partition on a Windows 8 system. I see the note about the drive being converted to Dynamic drive, but I do not see how that would happen on a GPT configured drive, which is not limited to 4 partitions.

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I had Two OP where the partition converted to dynamic, I believe the use of 3rd party partitioning software with no support for Windows 8, uEFI, GPT & Secure Boot, the cause.

But what about the warning I receive before installation? Is there a certain way that I should order my partitions? Is it really necessary?

meanbanana said:

But what about the warning I receive before installation? Is there a certain way that I should order my partitions? Is it really necessary?

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Just a warning for non-UEFI Motherboards, just click next.