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Hello there,

I bought a new ASPIRE 5920G series laptop with Windws, vista version. I want to partition my HDD in to more types (currently i have 2 drives). How can I do it? Can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance
Remo

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Quick, practical follow-up for (and thanks to for pointing to Disk Management): the errors you saw — "cannot convert to dynamic disks" and a message about an unrecognized partition type — mean Disk Management can't perform the exact change you asked for given the current partition layout. Common, non-speculative reasons are easy to check and fix.

Common causes to check

  • The disk is MBR and already has four primary partitions (MBR only supports up to 4 primaries). Many laptops ship with a small Vista "System Reserved" partition plus C: plus an OEM recovery partition, which can hit that limit.
  • An OEM/recovery partition uses a nonstandard partition type that Disk Management won't overwrite or convert automatically.
  • The operation you tried would create a spanned/striped volume (which requires dynamic disks), or Disk Management interpreted the request as needing dynamic disks.

Safe, practical plan (no data loss if done carefully)

  • Make a full backup or disk image first. Do not skip this.
  • View the exact partition map (the bottom pane of Disk Management) and count partitions and types. If there are already 4 primaries, Windows cannot add a 5th primary without deleting one.
  • If you need more logical volumes but are at the MBR limit, either remove an unnecessary OEM/backup partition (only after ensuring you have recovery media) or create an extended partition and logical drives inside it. Windows’ Disk Management is limited for complex moves; a bootable partition manager (GParted Live) or a reputable Windows tool (MiniTool, EaseUS, AOMEI) can create/move an extended partition and logical drives without converting the whole disk to dynamic.
  • If Disk Management insists on converting to dynamic, stop: dynamic disks complicate restores and multi-OS setups and are usually unnecessary for a single-disk laptop.

Caution: always keep a verified backup before deleting or changing OEM/recovery or system partitions.

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right click on mycomputer icon. chose manage then select disk management. right click on the drive you want to partition. select shrink. follow the steps to shrink the disk or you can set you own size but be careful. when the shrink is done format the new partiton that will be name unallocated. give it a name and whatnot. you now have a second drive.

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right click on mycomputer icon. chose manage then select disk management. right click on the drive you want to partition. select shrink. follow the steps to shrink the disk or you can set you own size but be careful. when the shrink is done format the new partiton that will be name unallocated. give it a name and whatnot. you now have a second drive.

Hello there, thanks for your help. But I tried this one already, but when I click on the Unallocated partition, and follow the steps, finally when I click finish, it says, u cannot convert all these into dynamic disks etc...and finally again, it says this type of partition is not recognized in this kind of exploitation.

Can u help me now???

Remo

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