[ubuntu-uk] how to change hdd/partition numbering. SOLVED

[Vitorio Okio]

> That sounds a bit dangerous - does that work by recovering the partition
> structure after the partition table is changed/wiped?

Solved it this way. Created a new primary partition as wanted but in the 
middle of the HDD and numbered it sda1. Get fdisk complaining about 
incorrect partitions ordering as expected and let it to correct it.

After this has to reinstall GRUB, since it could not boot reporting Error 
15 (file not found). This took some research and 5 minutes of work. :-)

Now everything is back in perfect order. The entire story was very 
educational for me as a newbie. I've learnt from it a lot.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers.
Vito