setup not detecting partition

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 8 11:20:10 UTC 2009


Haneef Bashir wrote:
> i tried re-installing ubuntu, on a hard drive that has about 5
> partitions. however when i use the live hardy cd and go through the
> instillation, when i get to hard disk preparation, it shows the entire
> drive as unallocated space. this is the same with gparted. however
> under places the partitions are there and i can open them. i have
> windows on one partition and would like to install ubuntu on one of
> the others, what can i do to fix this?
> 
	In a Linux Terminal please type: sudo fdisk -u and send it to this
list. In general if gparted can't see your partitions, there is a BIG
problem with your partition table on the hard drive.


karl


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