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Topic: What can I do to recognize my drives with Gparted

Hi everybody!

I have a laptop hp pavilion P4 with Fujitsu 120GB HD, two months ago I brought the new HD, then made 2   NTFS partitions (for Windows), one FAT32 (for data) and install Mandriva 2007 distro (with 6 partitions: /, boot,var,home, etc.), sincerily I don't like so much these distro, then I'm traying to install Ubuntu 7.04, but in the step about partitions the install program only recognize an entire HD without 3 partitions and the others with format linux and swap.

With the Ubuntu live CD using Gparted also don't recognize the partitions, show me the whole space in the HD, only list the /dev/hda   112 GB, with #sudo fdisk -l, I have a report

Disco /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 cabezas, 63 sectores/pista, 14593 cilindros
Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disposit. Inicio    Comienzo      Fin      Bloques  Id  Sistema
/dev/hda1   *           1        2190    17591143+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            2191        8210    48355650    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda3            4802        5695     7181055   83  Linux
/dev/hda4            8719       14593    47190937+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda5            2191        4801    20972826    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6            5696        5759      514048+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7            5760        5893     1076323+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda8            5894        7182    10353861   83  Linux
/dev/hda9            7183        7823     5148801   83  Linux
/dev/hda10           7824        8210     3108546   83  Linux

then I don't know what to do with Gparted to recognize the partitions, I know that install Ubuntu over Mandriva, I will erase the particular partitions where I install previously these distro.

Thanks in advance for your answers.

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Re: What can I do to recognize my drives with Gparted

There is something I don't understand with your partitions:

You have an extended partition (hda2) which contains logical hda5 to hda10, but also hda3. Normally, numbers 1 to 4 are reserved for *main* or *principal* partitions, no logical ones (for these, numbers 5 and up are reserved).
Further, extended partition type is 05, not f. 

I think you have a problem with your partitions. How did you make this partitioning?


Note: Ubuntu contains an very old+buggy version of gparted. Try using the last 0.3.4-8 liveCD version in a cdrw.

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