no partitions detected...

[walker9010]

Hello. The Ubuntu installer (and gparted, and parted) are not detecting my partitions.

Here is the output from parted:

Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Error: Can't have a partition outside the disk!
(parted) quit


and here is the output from fdisk:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sda2 * 7 3194 25599992+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 3194 11614 67637248 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 11614 19458 63009954 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 11614 12587 7815588 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 12587 12891 2441840 82 Linux swap / So
/dev/sda7 12891 15930 24410736 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 15931 19457 28330596 7 HPFS/NTFS

[walker9010]

I've fixed it.

Just incase anyone else has a similar problem:

the extended partition was larger then the size of the disk (note the number of cylinders) so I used fdisk to resize the partition to be within the disk. Now Ubuntu is detecting the partitions.