Hi
my labtop runs WIN7 Home basic. I tried to create NEW partition but I am prompted with the message shown in attachment 2, and when clicking yes I get message 3. what can I do?

[regaining space - attachment deleted by admin]Because you have the maximum 4 primary partitions already.

This extremely similar topic answers how to do this in full: HTTP://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/143876-partitioning-problem.htmlBasically, you need to remove one of the partitions and create an extended partition, then you can create LOGICAL partitions within that.Hello there,
 
    I do think u r creating this partition as we do shrink volume, that is why it is showing like this. so that means you are trying to create this partition in C drive. I can make this partition as a usable partition but in future if something wrong happen to your c drive and that time u would like to get data from ur drive u r going to create, but in that time u can not get this data, coz this is the partition we can create inside the C drive, otherwise take backup of DESKTOP and fromat your system and create partition from there. if u do not want format ur system leave massage again I ll tell u this trick, right now I am suggesting u to do not create partition from here coz u have only partition that is C. Ignore the above post.