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Ozy

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Posted June 29, 2012 at 9:53PM

On my new HP2065 desktop PC I have a 1500Gig hard drive. I split it into two, O S drive is 890 Gig, New volume drive is 495 Gig. HP recovery drive, and Microsoft office click to run, (protected ), Making the four drives that I am allowed. Os and N V drives are too big is there any way to split them

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chub_tor

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Posted June 30, 2012 at 8:50AM

Personally I am not keen on lots of partitions but take a look at this article it may help you get over the limit of four primary partitions.

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Ozy

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Posted July 6, 2012 at 2:09PM

have split into three drives(two logical, can i install Windows 8 release preview on to a logical drive,or must it be a primary

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chub_tor

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Posted July 6, 2012 at 2:45PM

Yes you can install Windows 8 on a logical drive.

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