I did a bit of research, and what it boils down to is this: Sam had 4 partitions, and all of them were set as Partition Wizard and was also greeted with the same error Sam received earlier. Here's what I found:įirst, I launched Disk Management within Windows and right clicked over top of the unallocated space Sam had created earlier, but received an error stating that: ' You cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions.' I then tried to do the same using MiniTool I asked Sam if he would like me to connect to his system and look at the issue in depth, and he agreed. I use MiniTool Partition Wizard from time to time - it's good, and it's free - but, I have to say that I have never heard of this issue before. New volume, however, I receive an error message that says: 'Partition Wizard cannot create a partition here because there are no free MBR slots'. Normally I can right click the unallocated space and create a Used MiniTool Partition Wizard to shrink my C drive, which then created I have an HP computer, which has 4 hard drive partitions: the System partition, the C drive, theįactory image partition (which includes a backup of Windows), and the 'HP Tools' partition, which contains BIOS information in case a BIOS flash fails and I need to restore my BIOS.

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