A standard partition table can hold information about only of four partitions. It implies that at one time, a hard disk could be partitioned into maximum of four partitions, called primary partitions. However, you can also create an extended partition that stores information about other partitions. A Windows system displays errors and fails to create more partitions if you try to create a partition, when the maximum allowed value of creating partitions has already been reached.

To overcome such situations, you might need to delete an existing partition containing data. Since all the data of partition gets deleted while this process, you will need to restore it from backup. However, if backup proves incompetent to give the desired output, you need to use a utility that could Recover Windows Partition effectively.

For an instance, consider that you try to install Windows 2000 on your system and attempt to create a new hard drive partition in text mode portion of the Setup program. You might fail to do so and come across an error message:

“Setup cannot create a new partition in the space you selected because the maximum number of partitions already.”

The remaining part of the error message is hidden by the status bar. The complete error message is:

“Setup cannot create a new partition in the space you selected because the maximum number of partitions already exists on the disk.”

Cause

Such errors usually occur if you are trying to create a new hard drive partition when the maximum number of partitions allowed have already been created.

Solution

You should follow these steps to resolve the above behavior:

Delete the last disk partition

Combine the disk space so obtained with unpartitioned disk space

Create a single new partition

Restore the deleted partition’s data from backup

At times, backup fails to restore the complete data. To recover partition in such cases, you should use third-party tools. These utilities can Recover Windows Partition that has been deleted, is damaged or lost, while maintaining all the data intact. Also, they provide you interactive user interface and hence can be easily implemented.

Stellar Phoenix Partition Recovery is a comprehensive data recovery solution designed for Windows 7 RC1, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. This application is competent to Recover Partition in all cases and provides advanced options. It is a safe utility that is compatible with FAT32, VFAT, NTFS and NTFS5 drives.