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ChrisOfTheOT
After much trouble trying image one hard drive to another (with Norton Ghost
2003), I took my wife's Dell D400 to our local computer shop. They did the
image (but couldn't get Ghost or Acronis to work so used Partition Magic 8)
but had to do one partition at a time and 're-build' the partitions onto the
new drive.
All is okay, except that all the 4 partitions are now Primary. I want to
have one Primary partition ('C - Active) and the remainder on an extended
partition as logical partitions. Disk Management doesn't offer a conversion
option, and Partition Magic 7 (all I have) only offers the option to convert
from Primary to Logical/Extended if it ALSO converts to FAT32 (from NTFS). I
don't want FAT32!
Am I missing something, or is there a simple way to convert from Primary to
Logical/Extended? (I had a terrible job before when I tried to convert a USB
drive from NTFS to FAT32 - how is it that PM7 seems to offer it as a default
option (NTFS file system being greyed-out)?)
Cheers,
Chris
2003), I took my wife's Dell D400 to our local computer shop. They did the
image (but couldn't get Ghost or Acronis to work so used Partition Magic 8)
but had to do one partition at a time and 're-build' the partitions onto the
new drive.
All is okay, except that all the 4 partitions are now Primary. I want to
have one Primary partition ('C - Active) and the remainder on an extended
partition as logical partitions. Disk Management doesn't offer a conversion
option, and Partition Magic 7 (all I have) only offers the option to convert
from Primary to Logical/Extended if it ALSO converts to FAT32 (from NTFS). I
don't want FAT32!
Am I missing something, or is there a simple way to convert from Primary to
Logical/Extended? (I had a terrible job before when I tried to convert a USB
drive from NTFS to FAT32 - how is it that PM7 seems to offer it as a default
option (NTFS file system being greyed-out)?)
Cheers,
Chris