Thanks for your help so far. The partition is formatted as Linux (83). Option p shows this (the one I'm interested in is hda5) Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 16708 134206978+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 23697 24321 5020312+ 5 Extended /dev/hda5 * 23697 24321 5020281 83 Linux I'm sure t...

Ah, um, yeah, I did this all while the drive was mounted. Although, it was technically free space rather than allocated to a partition, and I don't know if that can be mounted. Anyhow, do you know how I would remedy this? Would I just do the whole thing again, but with the other partition on the dis...

All of my partitions are NTFS. Fortunately, I had left some 60 GB unpartitioned space on one of the harddrives. I created a new 5 GB partition (large enough to install an OS, I figured) of Linux type using ctfdisk. I made it bootable, selected "write" and it said something along the lines ...