When connected to my external screen the desktop numbers are not in sequence

Question

Hi
Relatively new to Apple but use an Apple external screen.  When viewing muptiple screen on the MacBook they are shown in order left to right 1  2   3   4  etc however when connected to the extrenal screen they show 1  3  2  4  It is confusing.  Also applications seem to move from one screen to another wthout operator (me) instruction.  One explaination for this may be me losing my mind but the screen order is a definate.
Cheers
scottie

Answer 1

donniezazen wrote:It is normal. You could use GPT to get over restriction of 4 primary partitions and have them orderly numbered.
This is true; however, Windows will boot from a GPT disk only on an EFI-based system. If the computer in question supports EFI, you can make that switch, as described here, or you can re-install Windows. If the computer is strictly BIOS-based (as are most that are older than about 2 or 2.5 years), you're pretty much stuck with MBR if you're booting Windows from the disk. Overall, it's probably better to just stick with MBR partitioning.
FWIW, Linux doesn't need to reside on a primary partition. Given the setup described by Sameer, my recommendation would actually be to use GParted to expand the size of the extended partition (/dev/sda3) to cover the whole disk, and then create logical partitions for Linux. This way you won't use up all of the primary partitions, which might prove to be important in the future, should you need another primary for some reason. It can also keep the partition numbers increasing, albeit with a jump from 3 to 5.