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How does the error 'No Free MBR Slot' occurs in MiniTool Partition Wizard. If the operation to be made will break the partition number limit of an MBR disk, MiniTool will send out 'No Free MBR Slot' message. Learn how to resolve this issue.

Partition Wizard Reports No Free MBR Slots Error

MiniTool Partition Wizard is a highly competent partitioning toolkit that both average users and experienced users have little difficulty to cope with, and is always a good choice when you're doing hard drive management without killing data. Partition Wizard consists of five kinds of licenses and supports all latest partition technologies such as Windows dynamic disks and GPT disk, as most programs of its industry do.

Although Partition Wizard offers user-friendly interface, many users may get confused when encountering some error prompts, like Error Code 4 and Error Code 40. What we are going to talk today is one of the hot discussions: Partition Wizard reports No Free MBR Slots Error.

This post tells what to do if you can't create partition in Windows 8.

How Does This Happen

Before getting into the main part, we would like to explain the related. In Partition Wizard, No free MBR slots occurs on an MBR disk, which is a phenomenon indicating that the operation you are carrying out will break the rule that there should be four primary partitions or three primary partitions plus one extended partition at most on an MBR disk (extended partition can be further divided into many logical partitions). Thus, Partition Wizard won't go any further.

However, when seeing this error message, you don’t need to get worried, because Partition Wizard also offers several ways to help you out.

Let's discuss in detail.

How to Remove No Free MBR Slots

Chapter 1: Partition Wizard Can't Create Partition - No Free MBR Slots

It is my hard disk original state:
Local Disk C:450 GB
RECOVERY D:15 GB
But system has 2 others as:
SYSTEM 199 MB
HP_tools 104 MB
I want to create at least 1 other local disk, so I resized (Cto 120 GB and 330GB volume remained as free.
When I clicking on an Unallocated space and click on 'create' reply this error:
'Partition Wizard cannot create a partition at here. There are no free MBR slots on the disk.'
Now I don't know how to make MBR slots available. --from Tomshardware

While creating a new partition, 'No free MBR slot' may emerge in the following two scenarios:

Scenario 1: There are four primary partitions on the same disk already.

As the screenshot shows below, there are already four primary partitions on an MBR disk, Partition Wizard can't create a new partition and gives out the error message.

If you require more than four partitions, you need to convert the primary partition followed by unallocated space to logical partition, then use the unallocated space to create another logical partition. In this way both logical partitions are contained in an extended partition, forming the partition layout of three primary partitions plus one extended partition.

Step 1: Click on the primary partition to be converted (in our case, it's H:) and employ 'Set Partition as Logical' from the Operation menu. Then click 'Apply' at the toolbar to finish this conversion.

Step 2: After conversion, you can normally employ 'Create Partition' feature on the unallocated space. In the pop-up window, you can specify the parameters including partition label, drive letter, file system, cluster size and partition size of the new partition. Remember to tick 'Apply' in the end.

How to create a logical partition in Windows 7?

Useful tips after you create a new partition:

• How to convert file system without formatting?
• How to change cluster size without losing data?

Scenario 2: There are three primary partitions plus one logical partition, but the unallocated space is far away from the logical partition.

Another case is that if there are already three primary partitions plus one logical partition on the hard drive, and the unallocated space is not adjacent with the logical partition, Partition Wizard won't allow creating a partition and reports 'No free MBR slots'. (Screenshot attached)

To resolve this problem, you need to convert a primary partition to logical before creating a new partition with the unallocated space.

Step 1: Click on the primary partition to be converted (in our case, it's G: or H:, and we choose H:) and select 'Set Partition as Logical'. Click 'Apply' to finish this conversion.

Step 2: After conversion, you can successfully create a new partition with the unallocated space.

For a more intuitive tutorial, you can refer to this video:

Chapter 2: Partition Wizard Can't Split Partition -No Free MBR Slots

Apart from creating partition, another situation that 'No free MBR slot' may appear in Partition Wizard is during the process of splitting partition. Let's see a real life example:

Hello,
Problem: splitting one big partition in two smaller ones fails When I try to split my 95GB partition into two smaller parts, minitool's partition wizard tells there are no free mbr slots, I have no idea how to get free mbr slot.
But the last time I use partition wizard it did help me split one another partition.
Can anybody help me get across this? Or I have other choice? Thanks!

While splitting a new partition, 'No free MBR slot' may emerge in the following two scenarios:

Scenario 1: There are already four primary partitions on the same drive.

If there are already four primary partitions on the same drive, Partition Wizard can't split partition. Because if one of them is split into two parts, there would be five primary partitions or four primary partitions plus one extended partition on an MBR disk - not allowed. (Screenshot attached):

If no empty slot in MBR partition table occurs in Partition Wizard while you are trying to split one of the four primary partitions, the way to overcome this is to convert the primary partition you would like to split to logical partition at first and then carry out partition division. Take splitting partition H: for example.

Step 1: Right click on partition H:and select 'Set Partition as Logical' from Operation menu. Then press 'Apply'.

Step 2: Now the target partition is shown as logical partition. Click on it and choose 'Split Partition' from Operation menu. Then drag the slide button to set the partition sizes of the original partition as well as the new partition before you click 'Apply'.

Scenario 2: When there are three primary partitions plus one logical partition on a hard drive, Partition Wizard can't split primary partitions except the one closely located in front of the logical partition.

The reason?

By default, when splitting a primary partition, MiniTool Partition Wizard will divide it into two parts: the former part keeps primary, and the latter part turns to logical. However, while splitting a logical partition, both parts are kept as logical. Thus, if there are already three primary partitions plus one extended partition, splitting a primary partition closely located in front of the logical partition can put the logical partitions together, but splitting the rest primary partitions will leave the logical partitions apart from each other, that is to say, there will be more than one extended partition - not allowed.

To make it clearer, we draw a table to show the words.

In this case, you need to select either primary partition adjacent to the logical partition and set it as logical partition before splitting. Take splitting partition H: for example.

Step 1: Click on the primary partition(in our case, it's H:) to be converted and select 'Set Partition as Logical' from the Operation menu. Then click 'Apply' to execute this change.

Step 2: Now click partition H: and select 'Split Partition' from the menu. After confirming the partition sizes of the original partition and the new partition, you can press 'Apply' to end the operation.

1. Please do not set a system partition as logical, for this operation may cause your system unbootable.
2. To split a partition, the minimum partition size should be no smaller than 200MB, otherwise you will receive another error message: Not Enough Free Space.

Chapter 3: How to Avoid No Free MBR Slots Error

Now you know how to solve this MiniTool Partition Wizard error. In fact there is another way that can solve this error once for all, that is to convert MBR disk to GPT disk. The reason of doing this is that in GPT disk differs from MBR disk in many aspects:

• In Windows, all GPT partitions are treated as primary partitions.
• In Windows, the maximum partition number of GPT disk reaches up to 128 - a rather large number for you to partition a hard drive without worrying about 'no empty slot in MBR partition table'.
• GPT can recognize disks larger than 2TB, while the upper limit for MBR is 2TB.
• The GUID partition table is automatically backed up to resist virus infection or misoperation, which is a deficiency for MBR.

Please take care that the Free Edition is able to convert non-system disk form MBR to GPT. To deal with the system disk, use MiniTool Partition Wizard Bootable instead, in case that any accident may lead to the operating system fails to boot. Step-by-step guide is showing below:

Step 1: Right click on the disk icon of the drive to be converted, and select 'Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk' from the pop-up window.

Step 2: You can preview this drive will be converted to GPT disk. Click 'Apply' to save this change.

The Advantages of Using Partition Wizard

After saying so much on the topic 'no empty slot in MBR partition table', you must have mastered the causes and the solutions. Now let's look away and focus on another point: since Partition Wizard gives the similar error message with Disk Management while creating partition, what is the advantage of using this freeware, does Free means Futile?

If you are a fresh user of MiniTool Partition Wizard, you may have no idea of the power of this free partition magic. Compared with Disk Management, Partition Wizard (free edition) not only gets rid of the limitation that extend volumegreyed out, but also wins out in these features:

• Create FAT32 partition larger than 32 GB.
• Directly split one partition into two parts.
• Move partition location.
• Convert FAT to NTFS and vice versa without formatting.
• Convert MBR to GPT and vice versa without deleting any volume.
• Migrate operating system to another drive to back up system.
• Copy the whole disk for hard drive backup or upgrading.
• Recover lost/deleted partition.
• More for you to discover…

See! This free partition magic is not only free, but also powerful, and has earned great reputation all around the world. Besides, the free edition of Partition Wizard can be applied on all packages of Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10. In addition, if you use the paid versions, you can easily merge partition, change cluster size, manage dynamic disk on Windows PC or Windows Server. The concise interface and concrete instructions will lead you through all operations without effort.

Bottom Line

In this post, we mainly discuss why MiniTool Partition Wizard can't create/split partition, responding a 'No free MBR slots' error, along with the solutions. If you are suffering this obsession, just try these solutions.

Besides, Partition Wizard is really helpful in dealing with all kinds of disk partition management issues. If you are considering doing things in this aspect, just download the free version to have a try. For more questions or suggestions please leave us comments below or directly contact [email protected]. Thanks in advance.

In computer science, gang scheduling is a scheduling algorithm for parallel systems that schedules related threads or processes to run simultaneously on different processors. Usually these will be threads all belonging to the same process, but they may also be from different processes, where the processes could have a producer-consumer relationship or come from the same MPI program.

Gang scheduling is used to ensure that if two or more threads or processes communicate with each other, they will all be ready to communicate at the same time. If they were not gang-scheduled, then one could wait to send or receive a message to another while it is sleeping, and vice versa. When processors are over-subscribed and gang scheduling is not used within a group of processes or threads which communicate with each other, each communication event could suffer the overhead of a context switch.

Gang scheduling is based on a data structure called the Ousterhout matrix. In this matrix each row represents a time slice, and each column a processor. The threads or processes of each job are packed into a single row of the matrix.^[1] During execution, coordinated context switching is performed across all nodes to switch from the processes in one row to those in the next row.

Gang scheduling is stricter than coscheduling.^[2] It requires all threads of the same process to run concurrently, while coscheduling allows for fragments, which are sets of threads that do not run concurrently with the rest of the gang.

Gang scheduling was implemented and used in production mode on several parallel machines, most notably the Connection Machine CM-5.

Types[edit]

Bag of gangs (BoG)[edit]

In gang scheduling, one to one mapping happens, which means each task will be mapped to a processor. Usually, jobs are considered as independent gangs, but with a bag of gangs scheme, all the gangs can be combined and sent together to the system. When jobs are executed in the system, the execution can never be completed until and unless all the gangs that belong to the same BoG complete their executions.^[3] Thus, if one gang belonging to some job completes its execution, it will have to wait until all the gangs complete their executions. This leads to increased synchronization delay overhead.

Response time ${\displaystyle R_j}$ of ${\displaystyle j^{th}}$ Bag of Gangs is defined as the time interval from the arrival of the BoG at the grid dispatcher to the completion of jobs of all of the sub-gangs which belong to the BoG. The average response time is defined as follows:

Response Time (RT)=${\displaystyle \frac{1}{N}\sum _{j-1}^N{R}_j}$.^[3]

The response time is further affected when a priority job arrives. Whenever a priority job arrives at the system, that job will be given priority with respect to all other jobs, even over the ones which are currently being executed on the processors. In this case, when a priority job arrives, the sub-gang which is currently executing on the system will be stopped and all the progress that has been made will be lost and need to be redone. This interruption of the job will further delay the total response time of the BoG.^[3]

Adapted first come first served (AFCFS)[edit]

Adapted first come first served (AFCFS) scheme is the adapted version of first come and first serve scheme. As per the first-come, first-served scheme, whichever job that comes first will be forwarded for execution. But in the AFCFS scheme, once a job arrives at the system, the job will not be scheduled unless and until enough processors are available for the execution of the respective job.^[3] When a large job arrives at the system and is present at the start of the ready queue but not enough processors are available, then an AFCFS policy will schedule the smaller job for which enough processors are available, even if that job is at the back of the queue. In other words, this scheme favors smaller jobs as compared to larger jobs based on the availability of processor, thus this will leads to increased fragmentation in the system.^[3][4]

Largest gang first served (LGFS)[edit]

In the above execution scheme, the tasks which correspond to increasing job size are placed in a queue, with the tasks belonging to the largest gang scheduled first, but this method of execution tends to lead to the starvation of resources of smaller jobs and is therefore unfit to be executed in systems where the number of processors is comparatively low.^[5]

The AFCFS and LGFS also have to deal with possible processor failure. In such a case, tasks executing on that processor are submitted to other processors for execution. The tasks wait in the head of the queue on these processors while the current processor is being repaired.

There are two scenarios which emerge from the above issue:^[5]

• Blocking case: The processors assigned to the interrupted jobs are blocked and cannot execute other jobs in their queue until the jobs from the damaged processors are cleared.^[5]
• Non-blocking case: This case is incurred when the jobs already executing in the processors are processed early instead of waiting for the blocked jobs to resume execution.^[5]

Paired gang scheduling[edit]

Gang scheduling while executing the I/O bound processes keeps the CPUs idle while awaiting responses from the other processors, whereas the idle processors can be utilized for executing tasks. If the gang consists of a mix of CPU and I/O Processes, since these processes interfere little in each other’s operation, algorithms can be defined to keep both the CPU and the I/O busy at the same time and exploiting parallelism. This method would present the idea of matching pairs of gangs, one I/O based and one CPU bound. Each gang would assume that it is working in isolation as they utilize different devices.^[6]

Scheduling algorithm[edit]

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• General case: In the general case, a central node is designated in the network to handle task allocation and the resource allocation. It maintains the information in an Ousterhout matrix. In strict gang scheduling, one row is selected at a time following which a node scheduler schedules a process in the respective cell of that row.^[6]
• Paired gang: In paired gang scheduling, two rows are selected instead of one, one each of the I/O bound gang and CPU gang. It is at the discretion of the local scheduler to allot jobs to the appropriate processors in order to elicit maximum allowed parallelism.^[6]

Synchronization methods[edit]

Concurrent gang scheduling (CGS)[edit]

Concurrent gang scheduling a highly scalable and versatile algorithm and assumes the existence of a synchronizer utilizing the internal clock of each node. CGS primarily consists of the following three components.^[7]

• Processor/Memory module (Also called Processing Element).
• 2-way network which allows 1-1 Communication.
• A synchronizer which performs synchronization of all PE’s after a constant interval.

The synchronization algorithm is performed in two stages.^[7]

• When the load changes, a dedicated time table is created by the front end scheduler.
• Local scheduler then follows the time table by switching between the jobs that have been distributed to them by the front end scheduler.

We assume the existence of a synchronizer that sends the signal to all the nodes in a cluster at a constant interval. The CGS utilizes the fact that the most common events which occur in a PC are timer interrupts and they use the same parameter to be the internal clock.^[7]

• A common counter is initialized which gets incremented every time an interrupt is encountered and is designated the OS's internal clock.
• All nodes are synchronized after a checking interval 't' and utilize the internal clocks of the individual nodes.
• If after time t there is no discrepancy of the individual clock of the nodes and the global clock, time interval t is extended. Otherwise it is shortened.
• Constantly check and update checking interval t.

SHARE scheduling system[edit]

The SHARE scheduling system utilizes the internal clock system of each node and is synchronized using the NTP Protocol. The flavor of scheduling is implemented by collecting jobs with same resource requirements in a group and executing the same for a pre-defined time-slice. Incomplete jobs are pre-empted after the time slice is exhausted.^[8]

The local memory of the node is utilized as the swap space for pre-empted jobs. The main advantages of the SHARE scheduled system are that it guarantees the service time for accepted jobs and supports both batch and interactive jobs.

Synchronization:

Each gang of processes utilizing the same resources are mapped to a different processor. The SHARE system primarily consists of three collaborating modules.^[8]

• A global scheduler: This scheduler directs the local scheduler the specific order in which to execute their processes (local gang members).
• A local scheduler: After the local scheduler is provided the jobs to execute by the global scheduler, it ensures that only one of the parallel process is executed at any one of the processors in a given time slot. The local scheduler requires a context switch to preempt a job once its time slice has expired and swap a new one in its place.
• Interface to the communication system: The communication subsystem must satisfy several requirements which greatly increase the overhead requirements of the scheduler. They primarily consist of:
  • Efficiency: Must expose hardware performance of the interconnect to the client level.
  • Access Control: Must manage access to the communication subsystem
  • Protection and Security: The interconnect must maintain separation of the processors by not allowing one to affect the performance of another.
  • Multi-Protocol: the interconnect must be able to map various protocols simultaneously to cater to different client needs.

Packing criteria[edit]

A new slot is created when we cannot pack the job into the available slot. In case, a new slot is opened even if the job can be packed in the available slot, then the run fraction which is equal to one over the number of slots used will increase. Therefore, certain algorithms have been devised on packing criteria and are mentioned below:

Capacity based algorithm[edit]

This algorithm monitors the slots capacity and decides whether there is any need of opening a new slot. There are two variants on this algorithm:

1. First fit. Here, the used slots are checked for capacity in a sequential order then the first one which is having sufficient capacity is chosen. If none of the available slots have enough capacity, a new slot is opened and the processing elements (PE) are allocated in the slot in sequential order.^[9]

2. Best fit. Unlike first fit, the used slots are sorted based on capacity, but not in sequential order. The slot with the smallest sufficient capacity is chosen. If none of the used slots have sufficient capacity, then only one new slot is opened. Once the new slot is opened, the processing elements (PEs) are allocated in the slot in sequential order as per the previous algorithm.^[9]

Left-right based algorithms[edit]

This algorithm is a modified version of the best fit algorithm. In the best fit algorithm, the PEs are allocated in a sequential order, but in this algorithm, the PEs can be inserted from both directions so as to reduce the overlap between different sets of PEs assigned to different jobs.^[9]

1. Left-right by size. Here, the PEs can be inserted in sequential order and in reverse sequential order based on the size of the job. If the size of the job is small, the PEs are inserted from left to right and if the job is large, the PEs are inserted from right to left.^[9]

2. Left-right by slots. Unlike the previous algorithm, where the choice was based on the size of the job, here the choice is dependent on the slot. Now, slots are indicated as being filled, i.e. being filled from the left or from the right. The PEs are allocated to the job in the same order. The number of slots on both sides is approximately equal, so when a new slot is opened, the direction is indicated based on the number of slots in both direction.^[9]

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Load based algorithms[edit]

Both the capacity-based and left-right based algorithms do not accommodate the load on individual PEs. Load-based algorithms take into account the load on the individual PE while tracking the overlap between sets of PEs assigned to different jobs.^[9]

1. Minimal maximum load. In this scheme, PEs are sorted based on the load on them that each job will have on the PEs. The availability of the free PEs in the slot determines the capacity of the slot. Suppose that PEs are allocated to a job which has ${\displaystyle x}$ threads, the ${\displaystyle x^{th}}$PE in the load order (last one) will determine the maximum load that any PE can have which is available in the slot. The slot which has minimal maximum load on any PE is chosen and a number of least loaded free PEs are used in the slot.^[9]

2. Minimal average load. Unlike the previous scheme, in which slots were chosen based on the minimal maximum load on ${\displaystyle x^{th}}$ PE, here slots are chosen based on the average of the load on the ${\displaystyle x}$ least loaded PEs.^[9]

Buddy based algorithm[edit]

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In this algorithm the PEs are assigned in clusters, not individually. The PEs are first partitioned into groups that are power of two. Each member of the group will be assigned a controller and when a job of size n arrives, it is assigned to a controller of size 2^{[lg 2]} (the smallest power to 2 that is larger than or equal to n). The controller is assigned by first sorting all the used slots, and then identifying groups of 2^{[lg 2]} contiguous free processors. If a controller has all the PEs free in some of the slots, then only a newly arrived job will be assigned to that controller. Otherwise a new slot is opened.^[9]

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Migration based algorithm[edit]

In all the above-mentioned algorithms, the initial placement policy is fixed and jobs are allocated to the PEs based on that. However, this scheme migrates jobs from one set of PEs to another set of PEs, which in turn improves the run fraction of the system. ^[9]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^Dror G. Feitelson (1996). Packing schemes for gang scheduling. In Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 1162, pp. 89-110.
2. ^Feitelson, Dror G.; Rudolph, Larry (1992). 'Gang Scheduling Performance Benefits for Fine-Grain Synchronization'. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 16 (4): 306–318. CiteSeerX10.1.1.79.7070. doi:10.1016/0743-7315(92)90014-e.
3. ^ ^abcdePapazachos, Zafeirios C.; Karatza, Helen D. (August 2010). 'Performance evaluation of bag of gangs scheduling in a heterogeneous distributed system'. Journal of Systems and Software. 83 (8): 1346–1354. doi:10.1016/j.jss.2010.01.009.
4. ^Zafeirios C. Papazachos, Helen D. Karatza, 'Performance evaluation of gang scheduling in a two-cluster system with migrations', IPDPS, 2009, Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, International, Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, International 2009, pp. 1-8, doi:10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161172
5. ^ ^abcd'Performance Analysis of Gang Scheduling in a Distributed System under Processor Failures'(PDF).
6. ^ ^abc'Paired Gang Scheduling'(PDF).
7. ^ ^abcHyoudou, Kazuki; Kozakai, Yasuyuki; Nakayama, Yasuichi (2007). 'An Implementation of a Concurrent Gang Scheduler for a PC-Based Cluster System'. Systems and Computers in Japan. 38 (3): 39–48. doi:10.1002/scj.20458.
8. ^ ^abSociety, Ieee Computer (1996). Gang Scheduling for Highly Efficient Distributed Multiprocessor Systems. Frontiers '96. pp. 4–. ISBN9780818675515.
9. ^ ^abcdefghij'Packing Schemes for Gang Scheduling'(PDF).