Hi.
I was trying to move my WindowsXP to a smaller disk and Mepis to the larget disk. I used Western Digital's utility to copy the Windows disk to a smaller disk. All worked, I could boot into the new Windows ok. But when I deleted the original XP disk, both disappeared.

Looking at the new XP installation from Mepis, the contents of the new XP disk are all there, but the partition reads as reiserfs. Obviously, it won't boot.

How can I change the partition type back to ntfs? And, can I do this without destroying all the data in the XP partition?

(other info: I have three hard drives: XP was on the first- 80Gb, Mepis on the second- 40GB, and a third 40Gb. I wanted to move XP to the third disk and move Mepis to the 80Gb disk)

boot to a rescue disc and run fdisk or cfdisk you can then easily change partition types in the partition table there.

Linux (Mepis) are on hda and hdb. There is no hdc (I'm assuming that's my DVD drive; it's the secondary-master in bios). Windows is hdd1.

Can I run cfdisk from a console in Linux without booting into a rescue CD, since I'm not touching either Linux drives?

If so, what is the command for it?

cylinders: 19158
heads: 16
sectors: 255

yeah you can run it wherever you get access to it.