Jeff thanks for the quick response; On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 12:49 -0400, Jeff Voskamp wrote: [snip] > Partitions 1-4 are primary partitions defined in the partition table in > sector 1 of the disk. > Partitions 5 and up are logical partitions residing inside the extended > partition. > You can't simply renumber the partitions since you'd have to pull some > out of the extended partition. However, using something like Partition > Magic you could possibly shrink one or more of the larger ones, create > partitions 2-4, copy over the contents and delete some of the higher > numbered ones. It would take a while and not really buy you anything, > other than the nice numbering. :-) > > Jeff Voskamp > OK, Jeff, I can live with the numbers as they are. -- Regards Bill