This question is similar to others, but none of the answers was conclusive for my case.
I have Windows XP installed on my laptop by default and later on I installed ubuntu 10.10. Grub2 is my bootloader and I can boot into both Windows and Ubuntu.
However, recently I decided to give my Ubuntu partition more space. I opened GParted but it only shows me "unallocated" for my sda drive (only drive in the laptop).
Running System->Administration->Disk-Utility I can see all my partitions
sudo parted -l
gives:
Error: Cannot have a partition outside the disk
Yesterday I stared an attempt to fix this, but ended up destroying grub2 which required some reinstall-trickery. I also installed Boot-repair, but it only says something along the lines of:
Use a 64bits version
My system is 32bit, no doubt about it.
Just to complete everything, this is the fdisk output:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xdcdcfe52
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 912 7325608+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 913 10639 78132127+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 10640 17544 55464381 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 17545 19458 15374205 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 17545 17756 1697860 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 17756 19380 13046784 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 19380 19458 621560 82 Linux swap / Solaris
(HDD was originally split half and half in a C: and D: drive. I used a part of the C:\ partition to install Ubuntu)
How can I fix my patitions in a way that GParted can find them again?
Best Answer
Please follow this link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1728998 In short just follow this steps:
You need FixParts utility. You can either download the appropriate fixparts Debian file from SourceForge or install the full gptfdisk package for your version of Ubuntu (see the "Downloading GPT fdisk from OBS" section of this page). Then:
This procedure should fix the problem.