(solved) setup not detecting partition

[Haneef Bashir]

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Karl F. Larsen<klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
 the problem was the overlapping of a couple partitions which i fixed
using testdisk. thanks all for the help.