On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote: > this is part 2. > Above you see your disk layout. > You have noticed that there is one primary partition missing - the sda3 > should be a primary partition (even if unused free space), the extended > partition would be sda4, and the logical partitions would be sda5, sda6, > ... . > > OK. > We have to find a way to insert that new 3rd primary partition into its > place. This will be done by taking some space from sda2 (W95 FAT16). > In order to do that we have to save your data on that sda2 partition to > somewhere, best would be if you start your Win XP and copy that data to > your sda8 partition which is W95 FAT32, or to your CD-RW or CD-R disk, or > to your sda1 partition (pay attention: NTFS), or you may decide that you do > not have anyting valuable there and do not care if it gets destroyed by us. > Please save sda2 contents now and let me know when finished and ready for > part 3. sda2 is the original Dell recscue partition, there is no way I'd ever use it again.. but I copied it to sda8 anyway.. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 http://usdebtclock.org/ -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines