Converting the disk from basic to dynamic from windows

[Babak Hashemian]

On 27 August 2013 09:38, Babak Hashemian <cleverboby_bh at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I have a dual boot system, a windows 7 64 bit and an ubuntu 12.04 Lts
>> alongside it. Because I bought my laptop with a bundled windows 7 pro, my
>>disk have a reserved partition, a recovery partition, a partition for my
>> windows and two partitions of ext4 and swap formats for my ubuntu which I
>> created during installing it. Now I have a problem in windows that I can not
>> create another partition from my unallocated space due to limitations of
>> basic disks. I googled the problem and the suggestion was to convert my disk
>> to dynamic in order to create more partitions. I wanted to ask you if
>> someone else has done this before with windows disk manager before ? If I do
>> this from windows, would it create any problem for my grub and ubuntu boot ?
>> Does ubuntu generally support booting from dynamic disks ? Any kind of
>> advice and experience would be appreciated. Thanks.

>No other OS can use Windows Dynamic Disks, and it's an obsolete format.
>
>Don't.
>
>By the sound of it, your 4th partition is an extended partition.
>Inside that, you have logical partitions for Ubuntu.
>
>You can resize those & make as many logical partitions as you wish,
>*inside* the extended partition.
>
>You are only limited to 4 *primary* partitions - the extended one is
>one of these.

Dear Liam,

I got what you said. Thanks.

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