Paul Cartwright <ale <at> pcartwright.com> writes: > > sda2 is the original Dell recscue partition, there is no way I'd ever use it > again.. but I copied it to sda8 anyway.. > Hi Paul, good to hear from you. I hoped that Tom and Marko would join us again, but they are lurking only and are reluctant a bit :) If I had to do it on my own machine I would be done by now (fixed or otherwise knowing the result). OK. We have that error # cfdisk -Ps FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 2: Partition ends in the final partial cylinder That's the one making trouble, and you indicated we can get rid of it now). ... /dev/sda2 4463 4717 2048287+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA) ... Can you use the easier version of cfdisk ? Gives you display like that ? It would be easier for us to modify the layout with it. Btw, this is my disk ... # cfdisk cfdisk (util-linux-ng 2.17.2) Disk Drive: /dev/sda Size: 40007761920 bytes, 40.0 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 4864 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ sda1 Boot Primary NTFS [^B] 21436.05* sda2 Primary Linux ext3 [F13] 8388.61* sda3 Primary Linux ext3 [F11] 7605.21* sda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 1501.84* sda6 Logical Linux ext2 [save] 1076.07* [ Bootable ] [ Delete ] [ Help ] [ Maximize ] [ Print ] [ Quit ] [ Type ] [ Units ] [ Write ] Quit program without writing partition table Give me an answer. Stay tuned. JB -- 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