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BackwardsDown
September 11th, 2009, 08:58 PM
Hi!

I installed Windows 7 which deleted all my Logical partitions. With a recovery program I have all my partitions back but the windows 7 is not a primary partition anymore.

As I don't want to reinstall Windows 7 again, is there a way to make the NTFS primary? Or is there a way to let Windows 7 boot off a logical partition?

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Many thanks!
louieb
September 11th, 2009, 09:33 PM
99% sure you won't get windows to boot when its in a logical partition.

TestDisk - CGSecurity (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) should be able to change the partition to a primary one. Which recovery program did you use?

sfdisk or fdisk can do it but I'm no expert on either one. I've used sfdisk on a test PC to change partitions from logical to primary - but in that case it did not matter if screwed up beyond repair - don'f feel qualfied to give advise on how to use it. sfdisk to fix partition table problems (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1192598)
BackwardsDown
September 11th, 2009, 09:49 PM
I used TestDisk to recover my lost partitions.

I think I'll backup all my files and then fiddle with testdisk and fdisk later this week, as I understand it is possible.
louieb
September 12th, 2009, 12:44 AM
Good news - testdisk can redo the partition as a primary boot able one. Then a Super Grub Disk (http://forjamari.linex.org/projects/supergrub/) should be able to boot it. Just depends on how your partitions got messed up to begin with. This guy did a similar thing http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1261173 - long thread - testdisk shows up in post #17.
Bartender
September 12th, 2009, 02:52 AM
I'm curious - how did you manage to turn the Windows primaryu into an extended??
BackwardsDown
September 12th, 2009, 09:11 AM
Just depends on how your partitions got messed up to begin with.

I can read all my files on all my partitions so I think its OK.


I'm curious - how did you manage to turn the Windows primaryu into an extended??

Windows 7 deleted all my logic partitions. After recovering my logical partitions testDisk put all the partitions in 1 extended partition, so they are all logical now.
BackwardsDown
September 13th, 2009, 06:31 PM
Got the job done with testdisk.

Thanks!