John wrote:
"Balaji V" wrote in message
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"Michael Kimmer" wrote in message
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Balaji V wrote:
Hi:
I used Partition Magic 8 to repartion my hard disk. Now I have
ended up with a structure with two primary partitions (one being
hidden). I want to convert the hidden primary partition to a
extended logical partition. But since the second primary partition
is hidden, partition magic has all the convert and other options
disabled for this partition (it also shows file system as 1F(Hex),
but I guess that is because it is hidden).
Also now I have no extended partition at all on my hard drive.
Any help on how I can convert the hidden primary partition to a
extended logical partition is highly appreciated. Thanks in
Advance. Balaji V

If you convert the hidden primary partition to a logical, I mean
*not* an extended logical partition, the partition will be
converted to a logical partition, that is a partition that is
automatically contained in an extended partition. You do not need
to create an extended partition yourself with PartitionMagic for
the program will do that automatically for you as soon as you
either create a logical partition or convert in your case a primary
partition into a logical one...

I honestly do _not_ know what an extended logical partition is for
an extended partition itself is actually a PRIMARY partition!

Hi Michael:
Thanks for the reply. Sorry it was my mistake in saying a 'extended
logical', I was actually meaning a logical partition.
My problem here is that in partition magic, for the hidden primary
partion, all the options including convert are disabled (indeed the
filesystem is shown as 1F even though it is actually fat32).
The option to delete this partition and recreate would be my last
option since I have data in that partition which I prefer not to
loose. Thanks.

Balaji V

I think you should buy another hard drive and run a backup onto it
before changing the partition type. PM isn't that reliable when
resizing and changing partition types. That's why I suggested just
unhiding the partition (rather than changing it's type).

OMG!...Are you serious??? I hope not!

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Michael Kimmer

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