On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 4:50 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.. You might want to re-install XP at some point. -- 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
