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if i will delete my primary partition

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by irfan

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what I have to do If my Primary Partition is corrupted and may have bad sector in it and if i will delete my primary partiion using fdisk will the data in Extended (Sec.) partitions not be effected and remain safe as my first priority is my data note that i cannot remove Hd from pc because it is a Laptop.

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by thechas

Yes, if you delete the primary partition, the extended partition and logical drives remain intact.

I still recommend that you have a seperate backup of ALL critical files.

If you have bad sectors, it is very possible that the drive is startingto fail.
It may be a better plan to replace the drive, and copy your files from the extended partition onto the new drive.

Chas

by cg it

As TheChas has said, yes you won't lose data on the extended partition, but you will lose short cuts and have to reestablish them.

by otl

Do not understand ? Why delete the partition ? Would not be easier/safer to just reformat/reload primary partition ? This will lock out bad sectors without affecting the secondary partition. (backup data you want to save on the secondary partition!)

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