[gentoo-user] Re: how to move windows partition to be begining of hard?

[Platoali]

On Shanbe 19 Khordad 1386 14:25, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 June 2007 13:05, Randy Barlow wrote:
> > gpgkeys: key ED2A35C5A17F791F not found on keyserver
> >
> > Platoali wrote:
> > > I  have a box that has a 4GB fat32 partition in the middle of hard.
> > > I want to move this partition to the end or  begining of hard, so I can
> > > create bigger partitions.
> > >
> > > How can I do this without losing the data in this partition? I know
> > > that softwares like "Partition magick" can do this without any problem.
> > >  Is there any opensource competitor in linux world?
> >
> > Have a look at qtparted.  I haven't personally used it for such a task,
> > but I think it may be capable of something like that.  It's available on
> > the Knoppix CD by default, which is good if you need to have root
> > unmounted...
>
> Not sure if the OP has already hosed his data.  The *parted tools can shift
> the start and, or end of a partition, but they do not move data.  I have
> hosed partitions in the part using gparted because I shifted the beginning
> of the partition (and thus overwritten the partition boot sector).  My
> advice is to use partition image or Norton Ghost to create an image of the
> data in your partition.  Then, use fdisk to delete old partitions, create
> new and mkfs <type> to format these.  Finally, use partimage again to dump
> the imaged data into a partition of your choice.
>
> Good luck.

Thank you very much all you peaple for your recomandations. I acctually solved 
my problem by dd.  I just create a new partition  in the begining of my hard 
and then copy  the old one. I did not need any other partitions data because 
I would format them all for the new gentoo system. Its amazing how small 
programs such as dd can solve problems like this.

Best regards
Platoali
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