Felix Miata wrote:
On 06/08/02 21:51 (GMT-0400) wmeler apparently typed:
is there a way to make primary partitions into non-primary partitions?
I think that in theory it's possible, but I'm not familiar with any methods that may exist.
I think one needs Acronis Disk Director Suite to do this.
If there is unpartitioned space it's commonly possible to create a new logical and copy the content from the primary.
I am not sure that one can do this if 4 primary partitions have already been assigned. The only way to out of the situation would be to use Acronis Disk Director suite to resize an existing partition UPWARDS by absorbing the unallocated space which then would make it one of the 4 primary partitions. What I would then do is to copy off/backup whatever data is on the last partition (which is the one would logically, ie as in sensibly, have used to absorb the unallocated space) to another partition and then convert this partition into an EXTENDED partition (using Acronis again) which one can then split into logical partitons/drives of whatever flavour (FAT32, NTFS, reiserfs) one wants. (Not exactly step-by-step instructions but I think "you" get the idea :-) .) Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1