I'm in the process of partitioning and formatting a Lacie 1TB drive to use a
s backup and storage but after creating 4 partitions I've come across a prob
lem.

I'm using the Windows XP (Pro) Disk Management Console to do the partitionin
g work.  The disk shows up fine and for the first 4 partitions I right click
ed on the drive, selected "create partition" and then specified the details 
before formatting.  When I went to create the 5th partition however using th
e same process the option to "create partition" is now greyed out.

I can't understand why this is and I have done a few reboots to see if it wa
s some kind of glitch but no success.  There doesn't seem to be any way to '
ungrey' it.  Is there a maximum number of logical partitions a single hard d
rive can have?  I would have thought this to be higher than 4 if so.

Thanks

slip

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To give a clearer picture of what I mean I can provide an image of the probl
em in the Disk Management Console.  I've tried attaching it to this post but
 it doesn't seem to work....

Tech Specs:

Microsoft Windows XP Pro OS
Service Pack 1
Lacie 1TB Disk Extreme Hard drive

Last edited by slippyaah on 03-05-06 at 07:16 AM

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