Topic: [solved]"unrecognized disk label" - typical resolutions not successful
I have a 320 GB HD that was originally formatted using a Windows Vista x64 installation disk utilizing an MSDOS partition table. It was formatted into 2 partitions per the default Vista installation. Following the installation of Vista, the disk appeared normally when viewed with Gparted (Live CD or via Parted Magic).
All was normal until I decided to clone the Windows 8.1 partition (/dev/sda5) from my Microsoft surface over the Vista parition (/dev/sda2) on the HD mentioned above. The /dev/sda5 partition was roughly 100 GB and came from a disk that had a GPT partition table. It was cloned to a 300 GB partition (/dev/sda2) on the 320 GB drive mentioned above with the MSDOS partition table. This HD only has 2 partitions.
After cloning, I boot the windows 8.1 install disk and ran the following commands on the 320GB drive:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot
bootrec /scanos
bootrec /rebuildbcd
At this point, the computer will boot the OS without issue and all seems well and good. That is, until I try to access either partition from linux OS. I can't mount either parition in linux and when I view the drive in Gparted, I get the "unrecognized disk label" error. The drive essentially appears as though it has no partition table within Gparted.
Following
sudo fdisk -l -u /dev/sda
It does not appear that there is any overlap of the two partitions.
Following
sudo parted /dev/sdb unit s print
There is no error about a partition being outside of the disk.
Following
sudo fixparts /dev/sda
There's nothing about lingering GPT data
At any rate, I'm not sure where to go from here. I've tried Gparted 0.19.1 Live as well as earlier versions with no success.
Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks!