HowTo convert Primary Partition to Logical (ie move it inside the Extended Partition)

Tom6 · 11-29-2010, 02:13 AM

Hi

Around 2008 i seem to remember PartEd on the command-line was able to rescue deleted partitions and gave a choice of whether to recover the partition as a Primary or Logical Partition. I have tried testdisk but didn't really grok what i was doing.

I successfully moved a "Windows Recovery" partition to the end of my hard-drive, immediately after the drive's Extended Partition.

Regards from
Tom

alan_ri · 11-29-2010, 05:33 AM

Hi!

It's been some time since I've used Gparted, but I believe that Gparted still have an option when you edit partition to choose what you want it to be - primary or logical (is what matters to you). If you choose logical, I believe it should be added to extended partition automagically. If not, delete that partition (if that's not a problem?), then create new one (logical) and add it to extended partition manually.

But before you try this post the output of:

Code:

fdisk -l

as root. What is on that primary partition at the moment?

Tom6 · 11-29-2010, 08:46 AM

Hi

I don't mind deleting and then undeleting the partition, hopefully making it change to a logical in the process but i can't just delete it. It is the "Recovery Partition" for Windows so it's FAT32 and very flaky.

Regards from
Tom

alan_ri · 11-29-2010, 03:40 PM

Yes, but you didn't post the output.

Did you try to edit partition with GParted and simply change it from primary to logical or move it to extended partition?