Convert Primary Partitions to Extended/Logical Partitions

[Guest]

I have 2 hard drives in my system. The system was originally a Windows 98
system which I converted to a dual-boot system with Windows XP Pro SP2 as the
primary OS. The master drive is a 250 GB IDE drive with the following
partitions:
1. C: (FAT32, active primary partition with Windows 98 installed)
2. D: (FAT32, logical partition within the C: primary partition)
3. H: (NTFS, bootable primary partition with Windows XP Pro SP2 installed)
4. I: (NTFS, primary partition)
The slave drive has one logical partition on it, the E: drive.

I've installed Norton Ghost and tried to use it to create images of my
drives as backups but keep getting the error message that there are no
primary partitions available. Is there a way to convert my I: drive from a
primary partition to a logical partition within the H: primary partition
without losing any data on the I: drive? I have PartitionMagic 2003 but am
afraid to use it.

Is this possible or am I stuck with what I have?

Thanks,
Clem

 

[Guest]

What a mess..................You should,boot to xp cd,recovery,press enter
key
for password,typeiskPart In DiskPart,delete all the partitions,press ESC
key
when thru,type:EXIT Power off computer.Put youre #1 drive as master,boot
to xp cd,install xp,create a new partition and let xp format the hd.Let xp
reside
on C: not H: C: is default,format in ntfs.If you must have more
partitions/volumes
to a hd,before installing xp,use the 98 cd,run FDisk,create extended
partitions.
Pitch 98 and FAT32,thier both dinasours.........