Installing 12.04 on SSD to have dual boot : not seeing windows!
I have an SSD as the main HD. I already installed Windows 7 on it. I had already created the partitions where I reserved an unallocated 15Gb for Ubuntu. Windows works without problem. I took an ISO of the whold SSD as backup. It is brend new PC with new Windows 7 64 bit CD.
Now when I try to install Ubuntu 12.04, it does not see any partitions at all on my /dev/sda. It only sees an unallocated space. I did several internet search but I got fed up looking for an answer and I am tired.
I tried installing Ubuntu first but when I try to install windows 7 after, it says it sees the disk as being a GPT partition. So I went back to restore my /dev/sda with Windows on it and trying to install Ubuntu 12.04
sudo fdisk -l
WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sda'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders, total 117231408 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xa53626ba
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 83888127 41840640 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001e20e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 134219775 67108864 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 134219776 301991935 83886080 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb3 302005996 1953520064 825757034+ 5 Extended
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdb5 302005998 318761729 8377866 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdb6 318761793 335533589 8385898+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdb7 335533653 1409269994 536868171 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Partition 7 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdb8 1409270058 1953520064 272125003+ 83 Linux
Partition 8 does not start on physical sector boundary.
Desktop: I5-2500 on a Z77 MB, 16Gb memory, GTX-570
Windows-7 (trying to add Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)
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