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Why am I prevented from creating additional partitions on my Linux PC?

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I recently bought dell inspiron laptop. The laptop has pre-installed Ubuntu but I would like to install Windows 8 by splitting the exisiting partition which I have done through Gparted live USB ISO.
However, I can not create a new partition after splitting from the existing one. I get an error saying “No more than 4 primary partitions”.

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