Solved Cannot create a partition of Unallocated space !!!

genti

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Hi,
A few weeks ago i accidently deleted my entire hard drive using diskpart>clean command from cmd.
After a lot of work, finally I restored all volumes and files like before!
After the restoring, the pc was not booting up. So I had to insert a windows 8 disc and use its repair tools to make my laptop boot normally. The problem that I'm facing now is that recovery partition isn't recognized (it says : Could not find recovery environment), and when I try to create a new partition I get the message : "you cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains maximum number of partitions".

here is a screenshot of Disk Management: Capture.JPG

Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1
MBR partitioned disks will only allow 4 primary partitions.. If you want more, you have to make one of your primary partitions an “extended partition” and create logical partitions inside it. Or convert it to GPT. What
That's my guess.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 10 Education 64 Bit
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    Asus
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    AMD Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition Deneb 3.7GHz
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funny thing is he recovered GPT partition structure..

open command prompt(admin)

type> diskpart
type> list disk
type> list volume
type> exit
type> reagentc /info

post a pic of prompt windows
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 3.1 > Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8700
    CPU
    I7
    Memory
    24 GB
funny thing is he recovered GPT partition structure..

open command prompt(admin)

type> diskpart
type> list disk
type> list volume
type> exit
type> reagentc /info

post a pic of prompt windows

I had to disable secure booting and enable legacy support from bios configuration to boot successfully. If I enable secure booting I get the message : "Selected boot image did not authenticate"

here are the results of reagentc:3.JPG2.JPG
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1
MBR partitioned disks will only allow 4 primary partitions.. If you want more, you have to make one of your primary partitions an “extended partition” and create logical partitions inside it. Or convert it to GPT. What
That's my guess.
Thanks for the reply,
can I CONVERT a partition into "extended" or I have to delete it first and than to create a new one as extended?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    8.1
now do you still have the added partition
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 3.1 > Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8700
    CPU
    I7
    Memory
    24 GB
When you get your partitions the way you want them - we can register the recovery..

Or use partition assistant and move the recovery partition after the windows partition - so the partition you just created is the last partition

post a pic of disk management
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 3.1 > Windows 10
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8700
    CPU
    I7
    Memory
    24 GB
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