Changing a logical partition into a primary partition?

[Fintan]

Okay i really scre...ed up this one. I need winslow for macromedia products (flash, etc) and wanted to resize my winxp partition (c, hda1) using partition manager from paragon. to do this i had to change the win part. into a logical part. resize and should have changed it back into a primary part. after resizing. Now the win. part is hda5 a logical part. so it won't boot.
Well i forgot that little bit and don't have a working rescue floppy for part. manager.
Plus there seams to be a primary part. hda1 (free) but it is only 7mb large.
so my part. table looks like this:
hda 1 free 7mb
hda2 extended 117 gb
hda5 ntfs
hda6 fat32
hda7 swap
hda8 home
hda9 root

Does anyone have an idea how i can change hda5 back into a primary part.?
I need my nacromedia stuff for work and really don't feel like reinstalling winwp all over again.

Cheers in advance
Fintan

[Fintan]

Re: Changing a logical partition into a primary partition?

OKay i founf a recue cd iso for partition manager. I nered heda1 and hda5 and made it primary. Now it calls itself hda3. Now what? windows is still there but it won't boot.
Please.

Cheers
Fintan

[randcoop]

Re: Changing a logical partition into a primary partition?

There's a live CD called Gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php) that might do the trick for you. But be careful. You could potentially erase the partition you're trying to fix.

I don't know that this can work its magic if your Windows partition is NTFS, but it's a good program.

[Fintan]

Re: Changing a logical partition into a primary partition?

Thanks randcoop, no it does not work. But i managed to merge hda1 and hda5 and make it primary with the recue cd i found. Now the win part. calls itself hda3 and is primary but it won't boot here is the bottom part of my grub menue:
Other OS

title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
root (hd0,2)
makeactive
chainloader +1

any ideas?
cheers