Topic: Partition Magic/gparted Discrepincy
I tried to install Ubuntu 7.0 last night and screwed up my hard drive. Is there anyway I can recover the lost section of my hd? When I try to partition now in Ubuntu it only gives the option of working with
dev/sda. Total size of the four partitions sda1,sda2 sda5, and sda6 is 250055MB. When I look at my partitions with Partition Magic 8.0 it shows a total size of 141GB (approx). The hd is 250GB. It also shows an extended partition of 16392...MB with status of none and it is a primary partition. When I look at the partitions using GParted it shows an extended partition (/dev/sda3) of 160GB . The total size of the partitions (/dev/sda1 through /dev/sda6) as 391.5 GB. If I subtract the size of the extended partition(160GB) the total size is 231GB, closer to the actual size of the hard drive. I am using win xp media. Is there anyway I can recover my hard drive? Can I delete the extended partition (/dev/sda3 in GParted) and/or the extended partition in Partition Magic (* ). I am unable to do anything with the extended partition in PM. Hope you can give me some assistance.
Thanks,
Cygnis1