partition headaches

[jim ruxton]

> 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
> 
> Disk /dev/dm-0: 31.2 GB, 31272730624 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3802 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
> Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
> Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

> > The NTFS partition IS first in the partition list, but last on the disk
> > physically according to the cylinder number.  It is the position on the
> > disk that is a problem, not the location in the partition table.  Short
> > of moving partitions around somehow (which means deleting some partition
> > of the disk to make room), it can't really be done.
> 
> Has anybody used GNU parted lately?  It had quite a bit of
> power to resize partitions and shuffle them around.  (I last
> had to mess with this in 2002.  A lot could have changed since
> then.)
Thank you everyone for the helping out with this. Lennart had originally
asked what I was doing with Partition Magic when things went astray. I
was shrinking my Windows partition so I could create another partition
that was FAT32 for sharing between Windows and Linux. I never got to the
stage of making the FAT32 partition. It was during resizing that PM
crashed after which I could no longer boot windows. With respect to the
partition order. It has been this way for a long time and booted
successfully via GRUB into either Windows or Linux. So I don't think I
need to change this but I do have to do something to get Windows back.
Mel, I used GNUparted a few days ago to convert an NTFS portable drive
to FAT32 and it worked well. So what should I try if the partition order
doesn't seem to be the culprit? Thanks again for the help.
jim
> 
>          Mel.
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