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Max partition no. on a harddisk [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the maximum number of partitions that can be made on a hard drive? This question may be repeated. Can anyone tell how many partitions we can create on a hard disk? ...
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Access to a disk drive using volume ID instead of a drive letter in Windows

Can I access to a disk drive using volume ID instead of a drive letter in Windows? It could be very useful for external drives.
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Why can I only have four partitions?

Why is the limitation on the number of partitions set to 4? Any reference would be useful.
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What is the maximum number of partitions with EFI?

I was wondering what is the maximum number of partition on an GPT-partitionned drive under Linux. The GPT partition table can contain up to 128 partitions, but the device nodes for /dev/sda? (as ...
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How to install Windows 8 in a system which has Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 installed already?

I have a system in which I have installed Windows 7 first. I then installed Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) to the system. Now, the boot manager is GRUB and everything works fine as Ubuntu ...
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Installing Windows 7 (dual-boot) after having installed Windows 8

I have installed Windows 8 Pro x64 over my previous Windows 7 installation. However, I need to re-install Windows 7 on a second partition, in other words, with dual-boot functioning. When I boot the ...
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Converting C:/ partition to Logical Partition

I have an HP dv6 laptop which came with 4 primary partitions: System Reserved Partition C: (contains OS) Recovery Partition HP_Tools Now I want to create a new partition (primary) for putting my ...
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Install windows on unallocated space (without formatting rest of partitions)

Situation: I had 2hdd, one was used for OS, the other was just storage divided in several partition. OS hdd was removed, so now I have pc without OS and data that I do not want to loose. ...
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How do I create partitions on my Lenovo U310 laptop?

I have four partitions (windows allows four only), by default on my laptop. System -- from where the windows boots. C:\ -- where the windows is located and all my stuff on computer D:\ -- the backups ...
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