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Creating Partitions on an MBR Basic Disk
As described in [[Adding New GPT and MBR Disks to Windows Server 2008 Systems]] a basic disk initialized with the MBR partition style can support either four primary partitions or three primary partitions and one extended partition. The extended partition can, in turn, be divided into multiple logical drives.
New volumes are created using the Disk Manager. This can be accessed either from the Server Manager or Computer Management tools. To launch the Server Manager open the Start menu and click on the Server Manager option, or click on the Server Manager icon in the task bar. Alternatively launch Computer Management from ''Start -> All Programs -> Administration Tools -> Computer Management''. When creating new volumes on an MBR disk the first three volumes created will be configured as ''primary partitions''. The fourth partition created will be configured as an ''extended partition'' with the first logical drive created as the size requested for the fourth volume. Any available space left in the extended partition after the fiest first logical drive has been created will be marked as ''Free Space'' and may be used to create additional logical drives within the extended partition.
To begin the partitioning process right click on the ''Unallocated'' or ''Free Space'' area of the appropriate drive in the graphical section of Drive Manager screen and select ''New Simple Volume...''. This will launch the ''New Simple Volume Wizard...''. Click ''Next'' on the initial screen to proceed to the ''Specify Volume Size'' screen as illustrated below:

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