Can Partition Magic "change" a primary partition to an extended partition
without loosing data?

I have not seen anything in the manual that says yes or no and don't like
to be playing with the program if I don't need to.

>At 10:11 5/24/99 , Brad Boutwell wrote:
> >I just installed a 20 GB HD (4 partitions - 1@2 GB, 3@6 GB). I have
> >a 6GB (2 partitions - 1@2GB, 1@4GB) as a slave on the same IDE channel
> >(as slave). This is the problem, the OS (BIOS???) assigns drive letters
> >as follows: MASTER: C, E, F, G  & SLAVE: D, H.  How do I make the
> >assignments sequential? The new drive is much faster and I plan to use
> >the 6GB for archival purposes only. I want the 2 partitions (which I
> >plan to combine) on the 6 GB to be last.
>

At 08:04 PM 5/24/99 , Bill Cohane wrote:
>The partitions will be sequential (C, D, E, F on drive one, G and H on
>drive two) if you partition drive two so that it has *no* primary
>partition. Use Fdisk to delete everything on drive two (after backing up
>your data of course) and then create only an extended partition. Then
>create one or more logical volumes inside the extended partition.
>
<snip>
>
>I find Partition Magic 4 very useful in adjusting sizes
>of partitions when necessary.
>

Doug Simmons

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