dobrien323 Posted September 25, 2012 Report Share Posted September 25, 2012 Hey everyone. I'm wanting to try out Windows 8 because I have a full version of it (I believe) but I don't want to overwrite my Windows 7 in case I don't like it. I'm completely new to this and almost screwed up my computer last night but thankfully fixed everything. I partitioned about 40GB of space on my C drive to make room for Windows 8 and whatever other files.I have Windows 8 burned to a disc and I'm booting it up and when I go to choose where I want to install it, I'm choosing the unallocated space on the C drive that I created, but I'm getting the message that I can't because "The selected disk has the maximum number of partitions of this type."Any help on this? I'm not sure exactly how the VirtualBox works but I'd like to run Windows 8 straight from my computer to see how it works. Is VirtualBox recommended or can you all help me out with some other kind of fix? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted September 26, 2012 Report Share Posted September 26, 2012 So how many partitions do you have on that disk drive, and what type of partitions are these?Then you have to decide if you want to run Windows 8 under Windows 7 (virtual box), or as a separate installation (boot manager). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted September 27, 2012 Report Share Posted September 27, 2012 What are the hardware specs on this machine? This will determine how well Win8 will run via VirtualBox.One may want to consider acquiring a seperate hard drive for the installation of Win8.At the very least; create a disk/system image before continuing so that there may be an option to return the machine to it's current state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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