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Did I fall foul of some 4 partition limit?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacDuck" data-source="post: 1535965" data-attributes="member: 288149"><p>Hi dtravis7, I resized the Macintosh HD partition with the slider (for a third time). On creating the new partition I was asked if I wanted a logical partition or a primary. That sort of set alarm bells ringing knowing that I should have had a GPT setup.</p><p>I've been reading about this and it seems that Windows wants a MBR type partition table in order to install so some sort of hybrid affair is created, hence the 4 partition limit.</p><p>I've also been reading about installing Windows natively using EFI (no Bootcamp) which would be promising (if a lot of extra work) except that my Windows 8 is 32 bit and I'm not sure whether 32 bit will do that. (I made a mistake when I bought Windows - should have got 64 bit anyway :-( ).</p><p></p><p>I'm thinking that if I install Windows in Bootcamp I'll be severely limited partition-wise for any other OSes.</p><p>Problem is that I need Windows for a car diagnostics program and as that program (or some of it) works in a vm I can't install it in another vm (it won't nest well).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacDuck, post: 1535965, member: 288149"] Hi dtravis7, I resized the Macintosh HD partition with the slider (for a third time). On creating the new partition I was asked if I wanted a logical partition or a primary. That sort of set alarm bells ringing knowing that I should have had a GPT setup. I've been reading about this and it seems that Windows wants a MBR type partition table in order to install so some sort of hybrid affair is created, hence the 4 partition limit. I've also been reading about installing Windows natively using EFI (no Bootcamp) which would be promising (if a lot of extra work) except that my Windows 8 is 32 bit and I'm not sure whether 32 bit will do that. (I made a mistake when I bought Windows - should have got 64 bit anyway :-( ). I'm thinking that if I install Windows in Bootcamp I'll be severely limited partition-wise for any other OSes. Problem is that I need Windows for a car diagnostics program and as that program (or some of it) works in a vm I can't install it in another vm (it won't nest well). [/QUOTE]
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