partition headaches

[Jamon Camisso]

John Van Ostrand wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 09:35 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>>> Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
>>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
>>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>>
>>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>> /dev/hda1   *        3951        7296    26876713+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>>> /dev/hda2               1          13      104391   83  Linux
>>> /dev/hda3              14        3950    31623952+  8e  Linux LVM
>>>
>>> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>> After all if windows originally was the first partition, then it's boot
>> loader will have something like disk(0)part(0) or something similar in
>> the boot.ini, while if you moved it and put other partitions in front,
>> not NTFS is technically the 3rd partition on the disk, and should have
>> boot.ini changed to disk(0)part(2).  Best advice is to NEVER move the
>> first windows partition, it should always be the first partition on the
>> boot drive if you want windows to work reliably.  You can work around
>> it, but it is generally more fragile.
> 
> You should be able to re-write the partitions in correct order using
> fdisk. It would involve the scary task of deleting the partitions and
> re-adding them with the same start, end, and type values. I've done this
> in presentations to demystify partition tables.

It should be easy enough to edit boot.ini using any fuse enabled livecd?

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