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RogWilco

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Mar 24, 2008
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I decided to take another crack at triple-booting Lion with Win 7 and Ubuntu. This time around, I hit this error when attempting to install Windows:

Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. The selected disk has the maximum number of partitions of this type.

My partition setup is this:

600 MB => Lion Recovery Partition (HFS... probably)
260 GB => Macintosh HD (HFS)
40 GB => Linux (FAT32)
200 GB => Windows (FAT32)

I thought the limit was 5 primary partitions? Even with Lion adding that new recovery partition, shouldn't I still be ok? Also, it doesn't show the partition created for Windows, instead it shows the same approximate size as free space.

Any ideas/advice? Super confused by this one...
 
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