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How to Create Extended Partition / Logical Drives Where Needed The Windows Master Boot Record (MBR) partition structure supports a total of only four (4) partitions per Hard Disk Drive / Solid State Drive, they can be either 4 Primary partitions or three (3) Primary partitions and a single (1) Extended partition. This shows the different methods to create an Extended partition wherever you need one so you can create as many Logical drives as there are available drive letters that can be used to install a Windows Operating System or for data storage.    Warning As with anything that makes changes to the Windows structure there is always the chance for an error to occur, it would be advisable to make reliable  backups  to the external media of your choice of any important data, i.e. pictures, music or documents, that you would not want to lose before you make any changes to your system, it is always better to be safe than sorry. Let's get started! If there are 3 exist

Make a Bootable External Hard Drive and Install Windows 7/8 Step 1: Format the Drive Just place the flash drive in the USB port of your computer. Open command prompt ( cmd ). You can do that by pressing WINKEY+R, right click on the listed file and click on “ Run as administrator “. Enter the following commands in the same order as I did here: diskpart list disk select disk z  (where z is the number corresponding for your USB disk. You have to replace it with the corresponding letter from your own system). clean create partition primary active format fs=fat32 quick assign exit Please be careful  using the  select  command (so you don’t select and format your hard disk instead) If everything goes well, this is how your cmd screen will look like Step 2: Mount The Windows 8 ISO Image Into A Virtual Drive If you don’t have a physical optical drive you should mount the image into a virtual drive. You can install and use  PowerISO Step 3: Make The External Hard Disk Bootab