I have had my Dell XPS 8700 for about two weeks, just long enough to get myself into a little trouble.
It came with a 2TB hard drive, and of course the space was almost all in a huge partition where Windows 7 Pro is installed. I managed to reduce this partition to about 200GB (still 70% unused). I also created a "Shared Data" volume of 10GB.
Disk Management say the following:
Unlabeled 39MB (Healthy, OEM Partition)
RECOVERY 24.67GB NTFS (Healthy, System, Active, Primary Partition)
OS 195.32GB (Healthy, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
SHARED DATA 10.00GB (Healthy, Logical Partition)
Unlabeled 1632.99GB Unallocated
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I wasn't thinking about primary vs logical at all when I created SHARED DATA, but evidently Windows Disk Management was. I tried to create a partition in the unallocated space, and was told I already had four primaries.
So now I have four primary partitions allocated, and want more logical partitions. The Extended Partition which contains my Logical is full. Can I simply resize it upward to gain space to create more logical partitions, or will the logical grow when I resize? Does anyone have a step at a time procedure I can use?
Thanks,
Colin