Quick and dirty partition table repair?

[Tom Horsley]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 11:15:12 -0600
Peter Gueckel wrote:

> Tom Horsley wrote:
> 
> > Is there a quick way I can move the 4th primary partition entry
> > to the 1st primary partition entry?
> 
> I think fdisk can do this. In the advanced menu, there is something about 
> changing the partition order. This might do it.
> 
> I always partition with parted and then fine tune with fdisk.
> 

I finally decided to just dd the partition out and reinitialize
the disk from scratch and dd it back in. Seemed to work.
Everything is happy now, and the partition seems intact.