[ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

[Joe Alam]

Hmm, okay. I'll try and get hold of another disk to back everything up.

I believe this was indeed Microsoft's fault, I recently re-installed
Windows 7, before which I had no problems with the partition table.
I don't think it was anything on the original installation, I partitioned
and installed everything on this disk myself, with two storage partitions,
one for Ubuntu, one for Windows 7. This setup worked perfectly for around
two years. It seems that re-installing Windows 7 in it's own partition last
month seems to have changed something and caused this problem with the
mysterious LBA partition.

Thanks for the help anyway guys :).

On 2 May 2012 17:19, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertising at gmx.com> wrote:

> On 02/05/12 15:53, Joe Alam wrote:
>
>> I gave TestDisk a go (as recommended by a message in GParted) and I got a
>> message saying that space conflicts between two of my partitions. Could
>> this be what the problem is? Does anybody know how to fix that?
>>
>
> If gparted sees only unallocated space, I wouldn't try to fix it, simple
> cut your losses and re-install Windows formatting the entire disk, followed
> by the usual procedure for making it dual boot.  I don't know TestDisk.
>  Does is have any tools to do a fix?  I think it needs to re-allocate the
> space in the LBA partition to the NTFS partition and lose the LBA entirely.
>  The interesting thing would be to know how this happened.  Naturally it
> must have been Microsoft's fault?  I have never heard of LBA being used
> outside of the world of Microsoft, so I wonder if the LBA partition might
> originally have been a recovery hidden partition on the original
> installation.  Just guessing though.
>
>
> Regards,        Barry.
>
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