MAC OS x Create Windows Extended partitions with Windows 8 dual boot environments

After more than four years of ThinkPad suddenly broken, bite teeth, bought a MacBook, use down the feeling is handsome, do not want to go back to Windows. However, there is no substitute for Visual Studio under the Mac, and only one more Windows 8 can be installed.

Windows 8 was installed with boot camp, but only one zone was divided for Windows 8. Later, trying to pull a partition out of the data, and then in Windows 8, "Disk Management" in the contraction (Shrink) c disk, pulled out a part of the space. Then, when you create the partition, you receive the following error:

The operation you selected'll convert the selected basic disk (s) to dynamic disk (s). IF you convert the disk to dynamic, you are not being able to start installed operating systems from any volume on the disk (except the current boot volume). Are you sure your want to continue?

This means that if you create a partition, the basic disk is converted to a dynamic disk. (Dynamic disk is not easy to manage) Why create partitions now, you must convert the basic disk to dynamic magnetic?

The original basic disk supports only four primary partitions or three primary partitions + one extended partition. The scenario now is that Mac OS X occupies 3 primary partitions (boot partitions, Macintosh HD, hidden partitions) and Windows 8 occupies a partition. Four primary areas are used, so it is not possible to continue creating new partitions on basic disks.

My requirement is to create an extended partition, so there are only 3 primary partitions, and now there are 4 primary partitions, so the workaround is to kill a primary partition. The preferred object is of course the hidden partitions that are used to restore the MAC system.

Remove hidden partitions from the Mac and merge them into the Macintosh HD partition as follows (for reference posts):

1. Open Terminal in utility

2. Perform the Diskutil List command to view the current partition and confirm that the DISK0S3 is a hidden partition.

3. Execute the following command to remove the hidden partition (blank is the name of the new partition):

Diskutil erasevolume hfs+ 

blank/dev/disk0s3

4. Perform the following command to merge the blank partition into the primary partition (Macintosh HD):

Diskutil mergepartitions hfs+ Mac disk0s2 

disk0s3

Note: The Mac is the name of the merged partition, but the name of the partition is Macintosh HD after the merge was successful.

Then, restart to Windows 8, and then create an extended partition/logical partition (reference article) by doing the following:

1. Enter the command line, run DiskPart;

2. Input list disk, will list the physical hard drive on the machine, if only one hard disk, disk number is 0;

3. Enter select disk n, select the hard disk you want to create the extended partition, and if it is the first hard drive, enter select Disk 0;

4. Enter the create partition extended extended partition.

5. You can then open Disk Manager and create logical partitions.

After this operation, the partitioning problem in Windows 8 is resolved, but a problem remains in Mac OS X-NTFS partitions for Windows 8 cannot be loaded in Mac OS X, as shown in the following figure:

The next step is to solve the problem.