On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 13:42 -0400, David Corbin wrote: > Well, I'd like to preserve the partion table, and the Windows XP > partition, etc. > man sfdisk. -d Dump the partitions of a device in a format useful as input to sfdisk. For example, % sfdisk -d /dev/hda > hda.out % sfdisk /dev/hda < hda.out will correct the bad last extended partition that the OS/2 fdisk creates.