Topic: Existing partitions doesn't show
I've got a Dell Inspiron 500m with Windows XP and Debian testing installed, working flawlessly.
I thought I'd replace Debian with Ubuntu 7.04 beta, but it seems like a difficult task for this computer. When I arrive at the partition editor (both in the GUI and the alternative installer), the whole hard drive shows up as one large unallocated space of 75GB (which is the size of my drive).
The fdisk command in Ubuntu Live and Debian shows the partitions. Windows XP shows the partitions.
fdisk -lu shows:
Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders, total 156301488 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 63 96389 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/hda2 * 96390 61448624 30676117+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3 61448625 154175804 46363590 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 154175805 156280319 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
while gparted shows a single disk without partitions, the same way that the Ubuntu Installer did:
/dev/hda (!) fat16 74,53 GiB
When I open the extended information on the disk, gparted also says "Unable to read the contents of this filesystem! Because of this some operations may be unavailable. Did you install the correct plugin for this filesystem?"
I see the same problems listed other places, but none of the proposed solutions seems to apply to my case. As far as I can see, the partitions aren't overlapping, and most tools (except for gparted and ubuntu install) detect the partitions as they should:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=188532
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/48412
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=316
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=438
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=413
Also, there's an unsolved issue on this at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353253
I have tried both the gparted livecd 0.3.4-5 and gparted from Debian testing (0.2.5-2).
Does anyone have a clue what's wrong?