I went brave and tried Alans method, I wanted a tidy disk :)
Not to worry but for me [dont know my error ] it did not work and killed my XP install, so reverted back to method A essentially and reinstalled wingaming XP so all is fine now. I shall consider it a lesson to remember to save! up on primary partitions next time. Thanks all for trying. stu On 30/04/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 30 April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote: > I have made an annoying error when setting up my new computer. > I installed Gentoo then winXP and made it dual boot, all of which has > gone fine however when I did this I partitioned my disk as shown the > theory being that I would assign space as required after all > installation. Unfortunatly I made the 4 partitions all primary! and > now I cannot make more partitions to consume the extra space. Easy. Use fdisk, and write down the start and end cylinders of the 4th partition. Then delete it. Yes, delete it. No, I'm not tricking you. Now create an extended partition using all available cylinders, and create a logical partition with the same start and end cylinders as the original one you deleted. Save, quit, reboot alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
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