[Solved] error: can't have a partition oustide the disk

From the output it appears that partition sda1 is larger than the disk drive size.

1,462,862,900 total sectors in disk
1,462,863,027 end sector of sda1 partition  <-- Problem here!

Hence the partition will need to be shrunk to fit within the drive.

If you would like help with this then please provide the Master Boot Record.

You can capture the Master Boot Record in a file with the following command:

NOTE:  Be extra careful to type this command in properly, otherwise loss of data could result.

dd if=/dev/sda of=sda-ahcomput.mbr bs=512 count=1

where sda-ahcomput.mbr is the name of the file that will need to be uploaded.

Then upload this file to a media sharing site, such as mediafire or filefactory, and post the link to the file in this forum post.

The change I have made to the file is from a length of 1,462,863,027 sectors:
000001C0   03 00 07 FF  FF FF 80 00  00 00 34 84  31 57 00 00
To a new length of 1,462,862,772 sectors (= 1,462,862,900 - 128):
000001C0   03 00 07 FF  FF FF 80 00  00 00 B4 83  31 57 00 00

To apply this change:

1) Download the new MBR: sda-ahcomput_new.mbr

2) Load the new MBR on your hard disk.
NOTE:  Be extra careful when entering the commands.  Data loss could result otherwise.

dd if=sda-ah-comput_new.pbr of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 

3) Reboot the computer

4) Check that the file system is recognized in GParted

It is possible that the file system size might require adjustment too.

'Glad to hear the problem is resolved.   

Also thanks for editing the initial post and prefixing SOLVED in front of the title.  This helps others searching for answers to problems.

The numbers are hexadecimal and in reverse byte order to match the Master Boot Record specificiation which includes the MSDOS partition table.

Forum user greegthegeek wrote a tutorial on how to manually perform the steps.  See Proposition of a tutorial for the NTFS size bug.

Hope that helps.  :-)

Here's the fdisk
Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sdc:
1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track,
121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk identifier: 0xadf95f51

   
Device     Boot      Start         End                  Blocks           Id          System
/dev/sdc1   *        2048  1953536129   976767041    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

I'd prefer to fix this myself, but this file looks packed and the editor used did not allow me to read it. Sorry if I missed this above!

Are the units of "Start" and "End" the same as "Blocks"?
(If so it's way off!) 

Link to mbr from dd:
https://mega.nz/#!Y8RASJqT!CxYoyKfS12G4 … pUuy6iR4cI

I'm sure this will likely happen again so any tips on which editor, (hex?), to use and how this could be so far off would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
T