Ray Davison composed on 2026-03-13 15:19 (UTC-0700):
> Ray Davison via Freedos-user wrote:
>> The empty HDD apparently calls itself MBR type. But it was shipped as
>> the current system which I have no understanding of, and I may have
>> destroyed.
> A partition manager lists all partitions as primary, and all unallocated
> space as logical. I created all the partitions after wiping the HDD.
> I am now unable to create a partition in unallocated space - "There are
> no free MBR slots on the disk.
> Have I broke something?
MBR tables have 4 places to define primary partitions. To have any logicals, one
of the MBR places must be allocated for the use of logicals. So if you have
already allocated 4 regular primaries, you cannot create any logicals until you
first remove one of the primaries to free up a place for their allocation.
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