Ah.. thanx a lot pc, but.., umm., my windows partition 'D' on hda2, is already an extended type.
Still.. using disk druid how do I force a partition to be extended?? Theres no checkbox or any such option where one could choose if the partition was to be primary or extended. So how do I go about doing this? I even tried using fdisk that comes along with linux, but when selecting "Create Extended Partition", it can't find the unallocated memory.
thanx again for ur help..