Why to Convert Primary Partition to Logical Partition

 
Have you encountered such a problem? When there are four primary partitions on a MBR hard disk, and you want to create more partitions, but Windows doesn’t allow doing such an operation. Once you meet it, how to solve?
 
In this case, it is due to the limitation of MBR. As you know, MBR disk is a disk type which only supports four primary partitions or three primary partitions plus extended partition. If there are already four primary partitions, if you use Disk Management to create a new simple on unallocated space, you will receive a message “You cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains the maximum number of partitions”. But you want to create more partitions, so in order to achieve this aim, some of you choose to convert MBR disk to GPT. This post will offer you another solution, that is to change primary to logical and then create a new partition.
 

How to Set Primary to Logical

 
How to do this work? Windows Disk Management doesn’t have such a feature, so it is a good choice to use a third-party tool to convert a primary partition to logical. In the software market, there are many kinds of partition and disk management software. Among them, MiniTool Partition Wizard is popular with many users, so here it is worth recommending. As a reliable and professional partition manager, this tool enables you to extend/spit/resize/format/create/copy partition, rebuild MBR, recover partition, set partition logical/primary and so on. In order to do this operation for free, it is suggested to download MiniTool Partition Wizard Free Edition.
 
Step 1: Right click the primary partition and select “Set Partition as Logical”. Or click this feature in the left pane after selecting a drive.
 

 
Step 2: Then click “Apply” button to perform this operation.
 

 
After finishing this operation, then you can resize partition for some disk space and then create a new partition with the unallocated space.
 
In addition, if there are three primary partitions plus extended partition, you should convert the primary partition which must be adjacent to the extended partition to logical, and then you can resize the drive to free up disk space for a new partition creation. For more information, click here.
 
Now with the help of MiniTool Partition Wizard, you can easily convert primary partition to logical partition. Then a new logical partition can be created without any limitation.