Considering that it queues up all the operations, it would probably do a whole bunch of shuffling. I always get paranoid it will bomb out half way through. Backup backup.... I was creating a 4 gig fat32 on the laptop, and during the resizing of the primary ntfs, it crashed with an error. I had to boot to the recovery console and run chkdsk to fix the XP laptop. Interestingly, this is a known issue, as I found the instructions on Symantec's site when I googled the error from another machine. All was ok afterwards, but I have heard horror stories about PQ Magic from others. You need to have a backout plan when you use the program, but it is so handy. Since the tool cannot be trusted to never fail, it may be much easier to just backup, delete, create, restore. Ciao, Dave
-----Original Message----- From: Lance Blackler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 23 April 2004 10:32 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: RE: convert primary partition into logical I did it yesterday - so yes it can. Mind you, the primary partion was the last one before the beginning of the extended - don't know how it handles it if it is not like that. Lance B -----Original Message----- From: David Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:24:14 +1200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: convert primary partition into logical Partition Magic Version 8 can covert from primary to logical. I have not tried it though, but it says it can. Ciao, Dave -----Original Message----- From: Craig FALCONER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 April 2004 3:43 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: convert primary partition into logical No its not possible. However you can backup your installed distro on one parititon to another, then use fdisk to delete that partition, and create an extended one instead, then fill that with logical partitions, then restore the backup to the target partition. Finally you will have to bend the filesystem you restore to make it smaller. I suggest you just nuke one partition and reinstall what was there later. -----Original Message----- From: Paul William [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 22 April 2004 3:24 p.m. To: CLUG Subject: convert primary partition into logical Hi, I wanted to try another dist but found I had used up all my primary partitions. Anyone know if it is possible to convert a primary into a logical? Cheers Paul
