1 Topic by monti (edited by monti 2007-04-07 16:22:12)

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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?

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Re: Existing partitions doesn't show

Here's output from testdisk as well:

TestDisk 6.6, Data Recovery Utility, February 2007
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sda - 80 GB / 74 GiB - CHS 9729 255 63
     Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
* FAT16 >32M               0   1  1     5 254 63      96327 [DellUtility]
P HPFS - NTFS              6   0  1  3824 254 63   61352235 [windows]
P Linux                 3825   0  1  9596 254 63   92727180
P Linux Swap            9597   0  1  9727 254 63    2104515

Structure: Ok.

3 Reply by monti (edited by monti 2007-10-24 11:04:31)

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Re: Existing partitions doesn't show

Okay, this is actually a libparted issue.  Bug report here:

http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin … /ticket/50

(EDIT: changed the URL)

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Re: Existing partitions doesn't show

Existing partitions doesn't show, because there are saw any problem.

don't worry, i will try to solved this problem.

john

5 Reply by locialabra (edited by locialabra 2010-12-10 16:56:02)

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Re: Existing partitions doesn't show

Thanks "Monti" for your giving testdisk form. I'll use this structure form on my task. Although it is tough but i think I can do it.


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