Convert Extended Partition to Primary Partition??  | | 
December 14th, 2005, 01:30 AM
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| Convert Extended Partition to Primary Partition??
Anyone know if this is possible???
The reason is, I'm in the process of recovering my (pretty much) broken partitions. Now I'm at a point where I have one partition, which is an extended partition, with Windows XP on it. I want to be able to boot from this partition so obviously I need to convert it (if possible) to primary.
The weird thing is that this partition never used to be extended. When I originally set up my system, the partition with Windows XP on it was a primary partition. *sigh* | 
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December 14th, 2005, 01:36 AM
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Hmm, strange that it turned into a secondary partition. Unfortunately, there may not be a way to do it without destroying the partition.
My advice is to copy everything to a different drive or partion, fix the partition, copy everything back, then reset the bootloader (fixmbr, fixboot). That is, if this is possible. | |
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December 14th, 2005, 01:42 AM
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yeah, it's bogus, and giving me a headache..... copying all the data over may not be such an easy task, (since the broken partition takes up the entire drive), but we'll see. | |
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December 14th, 2005, 01:46 AM
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Worse comes to worse, just CD-burn everything important on that partition, then wipe it clean and reinstall XP. Will take a long time, yes, but it works when you have little space to spare. | |
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December 14th, 2005, 01:53 AM
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Welcome to TechIMO, Guy.
You can use Partition Magic 8 to convert to a primary partition. Make sure that you back up your important data first in case things go awry. | |
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December 14th, 2005, 01:59 AM
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Hehe, thanks for the welcome jarhed... I have to say I'm pretty impressed with this place. I could swear I've searched for well-populated hardware related forums before but didn't find anything... Not sure how I missed this place.
Anyways, I'm off to try to figure out how to recover some data. :-/ | |
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December 14th, 2005, 02:05 AM
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Wow, didn't catch that you were new. Belated welcome guy!
Hope your recovery goes well, messing around with nuked partitions is no fun  | |
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December 14th, 2005, 02:11 AM
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Near the top of the page of the forums is a search function. I did a search for data recovery and put the link below. Maybe one of the threads will give you the info you need to recover your data.
Good luck. http://www.techimo.com/forum/search.php?searchid=653973
(Redwolf, if you get your tank running be sure to post pics.)
Last edited by Jarhed7276 : December 14th, 2005 at 02:13 AM.
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December 19th, 2008, 02:39 AM
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Hi Guys,
I have a problem..My c: has little space left...So i am trying to merge my unused e: to my c:...Any idea of doing that?I am running Win Vista...
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