[Discuss] gparted problems

[R. McFarlane]

         I have come across a very serious problem with gparted in Ubuntu 5.10.

         I had used gparted to clone existing partitions from one 
drive to another. However, upon completion, I ran partition magic 8 
to verify the work and all FAT32 partitions were reported as being 
Linux. As such, I wiped the drive and tried again.
         The second attempt produced the same results. On my third 
attempt I realized what had happened. For some reason gparted labels 
FAT32 partitions as 83. Checking my other FAT32 partitions they are 
marked as 0B. Not sure why it does this. Partition Magic 8 creates 
FAT32 partitions as 0C when they are a primary partition and 0B when 
they are a logical partition.
         In addition to this, I am a little wary about "flipping the 
bits" to 0C for fear that this renders the partition unbootable.
         The new drive is a 250GB IDE drive and I was trying to 
consolidate all the data from my (then full) 80GB IDE drive. To add 
insult to injury, the only windows partition I have in use is a win2k 
sp4 partition (this is the one mis-marked) and all attempts to 
install win2k sp4 onto the empty free space below the 1024 boundary 
on the new 250GB IDE drive, fails. Every single time. I have yet to 
find any info on the internet on how to get win2k sp4 installed on a 
meager 15GB partition on the new 250GB IDE drive.

         Does anyone have any insights possibly?

Thanks in advance!


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