You could possibly edit the partition allocation tables But it's a job for a knowledgeable, and practiced technical
My approach would be to: 1) Assuming that you have access to the original OS disk, and the new drive's C: (OS) partition is the first one on the drive: Delete the new c: partition, Move the start point of the extended partition up to the beginning of the d: partition Copy the old C: partition to the new drive as a Primary partition That will probably require you to have a working system with an OS on a different drive Check that you can boot from the new partition You could consider if you need the swapfile on a separate partition, or would an appropriately sized permanent one on the OS partition be better - it would probably be faster Would you benefit from having a mini-OS (DOS?) with NTFS and partition management/copy/restore facilities) partition to use to do maintenance on your main OS partition JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mogens Holst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 3:14 PM Subject: How to change partition type? I have a harddisk with a cloned system. C:\ is the system drive (WinXP), D:\ has the swap file, E:\ Data, etc., etc... I used Acronis Disk Director 9 to copy the partitions from a good system - copied because a regular cloning failed - and something went wrong because the C:\ drive was copied as a logical instead of a primary partition, and I can't boot or even set it as the active partition. I can't see that it can be done with fdisk and Acronis doesn't give me the option to change from a logical to a primary. Do you know of a way to accomplish this? -- Mogens -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
