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How to create fifth drive for ubuntu on Win7?

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I have Win7 with 4 drives (basic disk) and a lot of unallocated space....
Now I want to create 5th drive for Ubuntu...
But windows don't let me create 5th without making the disk Dynamic.
I don't want to make the disk Dynamic at all...

On my other computer there is a basic disk with more than 4 drives! on win7 and it doesn't prompt me to make it dynamic(like a good guy :)).

As far as possible I want to install Ubuntu on separate drive and not inside windows...
What can I do?

Thanks in advanced....

EDIT--> One of the 4 partitions is: "System Reserved" only 100 MB active partition which is not show in Computer... Is it necessary? What if I delete it?

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answered 1 Year ago curatekill · Accepted Answer

It's a BIOS and hardware limitation, not an operating system one. You can only have four primary partitions on any physical hard drive.

The solution is to delete one of the primary partitions and make an extended partition in its place. You can then have as many logical partitions inside the extended partition as you want.

You can do all of this with a good partition editor such as Gparted. Don't forget to backup the data on the partition before you delete it - it won't be there after you hit the delete button!