Apologies and Reformat of My Machine with some info About Partitioning

Sincere apologies to the followers of this blog.
Got disconnected for some time, my machine got into some issues.
The reason for that was I had forgotten the concept of Primary Partitions and Extended partitions.

Lemme clear that for you:

• Partitions can be of two types
• Primary Partition
• Secondary Partition
• Primary Partition:
• A primary partition contains one file system
• In DOS and earlier versions of Microsoft Windows systems, the system partition was required to be the first partition. More recent Windows operating systems (Win7, XP, etc.) can be located on any partition, but the boot files (bootmgr, ntldr, etc.) must be on a primary partition.
• There can only be at the max four Primary Partitions on a Hard Disk
• The partition type code for a primary partition can either correspond to a file system contained within (e.g. 0x07 means either an NTFS or an OS/2 HPFS file system) or indicate that the partition has a special use (e.g. code 0x82 usually indicates a Linux swap partition).
• Extended Partition:
• An extended partition is a way to get around a limit on the number of primary partitions a basic disk can have.
• An extended partition is a container that can hold one or more logical drives.
• Logical drives function like primary partitions except that they cannot be used to start an operating system.

The Basic Setup on My Machine is like :

A Basic Windows OS to do daily stuff.
A Server Windows OS to work on new techie stuff (testing)
Ubuntu Desktop Edition(same as the name of site , just like that)

I accomplished the stuff by first installing Windows 8 Release Preview, which is my baseOS(Primary)resided on on my first partition. After installing Windows, I used cmd to create extended Partition of the rest of the Drive.

To extend a partition or volume, you must first select the volume to give it the focus, and then you can specify how large to make the extension. To extend a volume, follow these steps:

1. At a command prompt, type diskpart.exe.
2. Type list volume to display the existing volumes on the computer.
3. Type Select volume volume number where volume number is number of the volume that you want to extend.
4. Type extend [size=n] [disk=n] [noerr]. The following describes the parameters:
   size=n
   

   The space, in megabytes (MB), to add to the current partition. If you do not specify a size, the disk is extended to use all the next contiguous unallocated space.

   disk=n

   The dynamic disk on which to extend the volume. Space equal to size=n is allocated on the disk. If no disk is specified, the volume is extended on the current disk.

   noerr

   For scripting only. When an error is thrown, this parameter specifies that Diskpart continue to process commands as if the error did not occur. Without the noerr parameter, an error causes Diskpart to exit with an error code.
5. Type exit to exit Diskpart.exe.

I was helped by the kb article from Microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/325590 for the above steps.
Then created a logical partition in the Extended Partition using Microsoft's Disk Management Utilty

• Go to Run
• Type diskmgmt.msc

 and installed Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate onto that. The last step was the installation of Ubuntu 12.10. The remaining space was used for that.

Hope I didn't make you nauseated. In the next post , I'll come to the Installation of Sharepoint 2013 on a Standalone Machine.