[Techtalk] Partitioning issues.

Staci scorcora at wisc.edu
Fri Jul 25 13:13:17 EST 2003


On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Conor Daly wrote:
> If she's dealing only with _primary_ partitions all should be well since
> primary partition info is stored at the start of the drive.  Extended
> partitions are a different matter since they store the partition info
> within the partition itself.  If Stacci's disk had all primary partitions,
> they should be recoverable.  If they're logical drives inside extended
> partitions, the info may be lost.


That might be the problem, the reason all the suggestions haven't worked.
I had a primary, deleted it, turned it into two logicals, and now turned it back into one primary.

staci


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