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bbfa235
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an interesting concept...
apparently in the one very specific scenario that you describe, this works ok.
However, beware, that I once had a disk with multiple partitions on it with a mixture of windows and linux.
due to splitting one partition into two, I ended up with an out of order partition table (logical)
the result is that when I booted into windows... it trashed the entire hard disk... it did not like having the out of order partition and so decided to replace the partition table with one that it liked.
on the other hand, I see oems shipping partition tables that have been deliberatly corrupted by overlapping them and this seems to work... but those partitions are not out of order, just overlapped to prevent windows from seeing it, typically a repair/tools partion that they want hidden from windows, but bootable.
anyway, bottom line is that out of order partitions entails substantial risk of disk corruption if the disk is accessed by windows.