otropogo wrote:Today I removed two partitions from one drive of my Puppy system. They were named sda1 and sda5, originally from a Windows partitioning system.
I think your problems started because you removed the first partition on the hard drive sda1.
That probably screwed up the partition table and so, explains why partition programs are giving strange output.
Gparted, in Puppy, is a little conservative on what it will do.
Parted Magic should be more aggressive.
Normally, partitions follow a logical progression of, start at the beginning, of a hard drive, and go towards the end. You deleted the beginning partition and threw everything off.
Resizing and deleting of partitions, always works best, if you start at the end and work towards the beginning of the drive.