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Having successfully installed Win8.1 on my laptop machine I'm trying to do the same on my desktop machine but am having problems allocating useable space on the hard drive. I want to create a dual boot situation until I've transferred all my programs to the Windows 8.1 partition. I followed the tutorial on this forum to do that for my laptop and I'm just trying to do the same for my desktop PC.
My PC is an Acer Aspire M5910 and came already partitioned with two user partitions so it looked like this
Partition 1 PQSERVICE Primary
Partition 2 System Reserved Primary
Partition 3 Acer Primary (Win 7 operating system)
Partition 4 DATA Primary
Using EaseUS Partition Master I've shrunk and moved the 3rd partition, Acer, so I have 200GB of unallocated space between partition 2 and partition 3. When I run the Windows 8.1 install and specify the unallocated space as the place to install in I get an error message
"Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The selected disk has the maximum number of partitions of this type."
If I go back to EaseUS Partition Master and select the unallocated space and try to create a partition it says "Please convert an existed primary partition to logical partition and try again." I have converted partiton 4, DATA, to logical but I just get the same error messages. I'd appreciate some advice on this. Thank you.
My present partitioning looks like this
Partition 1 PQSERVICE Primary 16.0GB
Partition 2 System Reserved Primary 100.0MB
Unallocated space 202.3GB
Partition 3 Acer Primary 255.1GB
Partition 4 DATA Logical 458.0GB
Rachel
My PC is an Acer Aspire M5910 and came already partitioned with two user partitions so it looked like this
Partition 1 PQSERVICE Primary
Partition 2 System Reserved Primary
Partition 3 Acer Primary (Win 7 operating system)
Partition 4 DATA Primary
Using EaseUS Partition Master I've shrunk and moved the 3rd partition, Acer, so I have 200GB of unallocated space between partition 2 and partition 3. When I run the Windows 8.1 install and specify the unallocated space as the place to install in I get an error message
"Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The selected disk has the maximum number of partitions of this type."
If I go back to EaseUS Partition Master and select the unallocated space and try to create a partition it says "Please convert an existed primary partition to logical partition and try again." I have converted partiton 4, DATA, to logical but I just get the same error messages. I'd appreciate some advice on this. Thank you.
My present partitioning looks like this
Partition 1 PQSERVICE Primary 16.0GB
Partition 2 System Reserved Primary 100.0MB
Unallocated space 202.3GB
Partition 3 Acer Primary 255.1GB
Partition 4 DATA Logical 458.0GB
Rachel
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Packard Bell EasyNote TM01
- CPU
- AMD V 120 @ 2200 MHz
- Motherboard
- Packard Bell EasyNote TM01
- Memory
- 8192 MB DDR3-SDRAM
- Graphics Card(s)
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250
- Sound Card
- Acer SB600 HD
- Monitor(s) Displays
- AUO 15 inch
- Screen Resolution
- 1366 x 768
- Hard Drives
- Hitachi HTS545025B9A300 250GB
- Keyboard
- UK
- Mouse
- Touchpad and wireless mouse
- Internet Speed
- 13 mbps
- Browser
- Firefox
- Antivirus
- Avast (Free)